Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Mental Health

Location: Colchester

Salary: Band 8a, £42,414 - £49,969 (plus potential EDC)

Description: Working with one of the biggest Mental Health and Community NHS Foundation Trusts in the country. They are a specialist mental health and community health services trust providing adult , older people’s and young people’s mental health services, substance misuse services, forensic services and learning disability services from a number of hospital and community based premises throughout Essex and some adjacent Counties.

They now have an opportunity at Band 8a for a Specialist Mental Health Clinical Pharmacist.

You will provide specialist clinical pharmacy services in a specific area which include acute adult mental health services, older adult mental health services, secure mental health services, learning disability, CAMHS and a mother and baby unit across the Trust. You will support the medicines-related care of patients, support the provision and development of medicines management services and to participate in training, education and research as required.

You should be able to work on your own initiative as well as within a larger team, and will be supported by the wider Trust pharmacy team. You will work 37.5 hours per week including participation in on-call, weekend, early, late and Bank Holiday rotas, as necessary.

You should be able to demonstrate evidence of postgraduate training and continuing professional development in clinical pharmacy practice.

Person Specification: A GPHC Registered Pharmacist with the ability to work within the UK

Benefits:  A fantastic NHS benefits package which includes a great pension scheme, a generous holiday entitlement with incremental rises, various salary sacrifice schemes, great work life balance and opportunities for fantastic career development and opportunities for further studies.