Senior Clinical Mental Health Pharmacist | Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced clinical pharmacist with a specialist interest in mental health to join our expanding and highly supportive inpatient team as a Senior Clinical Pharmacist, providing professional and clinical leadership to the inpatient pharmacy team.

This is a key role for someone looking to influence high-quality medicines optimisation, contribute to service development, and work within a dynamic multidisciplinary environment. The post is based at The Harbour Hospital in Blackpool and covers a diverse range of mental health wards including psychiatric intensive care units, acute adult mental health wards, older adult advanced care and dementia wards, and a Section 136 suite.

This role offers an excellent opportunity if you wish to enhance your existing knowledge within the mental health field or if you are already working at this level. We are a supportive Medicines Management Team that offers a wide range of opportunities to help you build on your current expertise, and we actively encourage all team members to identify developmental needs and feel empowered to advance their skills. There may also be opportunities for you to access further development, including the Aston University distance-learning Postgraduate Certificate in Psychiatric Therapeutics (accredited by the College of Mental Health Pharmacy), subject to availability and approval.

This post provides opportunities for:

Developing a Non-Medical Prescribing role

Pharmaceutical care planning and clinical review of prescriptions

Involving service users in decisions about their medicines to optimise treatment, support adherence, and improve outcomes

Providing specialist pharmaceutical advice to the multidisciplinary team

Offering clinical supervision and professional leadership to other members of the team

Providing expert medicines management advice and ensuring appropriate governance arrangements for the management of medicines, including monitoring prescribing and medicines use

Attending strategic network meetings, including locality governance meetings

Actively contributing to and delivering the Trust's medicines optimisation strategy

You will be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council and hold a postgraduate qualification or have equivalent experience, with significant post-registration experience in a mental health setting. A Non-Medical Prescribing qualification is desirable, although applicants who are willing to work towards this will also be considered.

In addition, we provide access to a range of other courses and training events to support your ongoing clinical, professional, and leadership development.

For further details/informal visits please contact us using the details provided

LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.

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