Advanced Specialist Mental Health Pharmacist - Community Services

We have an exciting opportunity for a clinical pharmacist to join our successful mental health team at Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, working across Lincolnshire. You will be based at one of the community mental health teams and join a team of pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, pharmacy support workers, and trainee staff members.

The team provides a comprehensive clinical service across the trust, and you will use your experience, skills, and initiative to develop, coordinate and provide a high-quality clinical pharmacy service to community patients and their carers. You will also contribute to the pharmacy core service, performing departmental and clinical duties.

To apply, you must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.

The Trust would consider offering this as a developmental role, progressing from Band 7 to Band 8a depending on your experience and qualifications.

The Main Responsibilities Of This Position Include

• Providing excellent clinical pharmacy services to community patients and their caregivers,
• Acting as an independent pharmacist prescriber after completing relevant training.

Collaborating with the multidisciplinary team.

Managing a client caseload.

Creating and implementing protocols and guidelines with the clinical service lead's assistance.

Contributing to service development initiatives.

Mentoring post-registration pharmacists.

Participating in the training of healthcare professionals.

Supporting pharmacy service areas within the department.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well-led and ‘good’ overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We’re really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.

Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Joshua Confue Job title: Clinical Pharmacy Services Manager Email address: joshua.confue1@nhs.net Telephone number: 01522 421568