Urgent Specialist Clinical Pharmacist

Go back Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust

Specialist Clinical Pharmacist

The closing date is 16 October 2025

We are looking for an enthusiastic patient-focussed clinical pharmacist looking to develop their clinical knowledge and skills working in our inpatient areas and providing clinical pharmacist support to our community treatment teams across a range of mental health specialities.

Applicants should have excellent communication and team working skills and self-motivation to contribute to the development and delivery of the pharmacy service. We welcome applications from pharmacist colleagues working in all sectors of the profession. Prior working experience in mental health is not essential, as a comprehensive programme of education, training and clinical supervision will be provided. We will support you to provide high quality services to patients and healthcare professionals.

Main duties of the job

Across our Trust, pharmacy staff are fully integrated into and regarded as valued members of the multi-disciplinary team.

Our clinical pharmacy services include:

- Medicines reconciliation and review on admission and discharge
- Supporting patients and carers with the management of their medicines
- Optimising medicines, taking a holistic view of both mental and physical healthcare needs
- Physical health and wellbeing advice
- Discharge planning and liaison with primary care
- To personally work and encourage others to work within standards, legislation and guidelines in keeping with professional registration requirements
- To act as a role model for other staff and to demonstrate personal conduct in a manner in keeping with being a registered professional

About us

We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.

The North East of England and Cumbria boasts some of Britain's most beautiful scenery, coastline and national parks. It offers affordable house prices, good connectivity and train links with some major cities. It can offer a fantastic quality of life and working for our Trust promotes a great work life balance. We have bases in many beautiful places which can give our staff the opportunity to explore some of these surrounding areas.

As a department, we are committed to developing and supporting our staff to achieve the maximum they can from their career, whilst delivering outstanding patient centred care.

Job responsibilities

For further information about our department please see our Pharmacy Brochure. Supporting your pharmacy and medicines optimisation journey - CNTW

Person Specification

Knowledge and Qualifications

- GPhC Registered Pharmacist
- MPharm or equivalent first degree in Pharmacy
- Evidence of commitment to CPD as a minimum to meet the mandatory requirements of the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Working towards postgraduate clinical qualification Or Evidence of portfolio working towards RPS post registration foundation pharmacist curriculum

Experience

- Experience in providing clinical pharmacy services
- Experience of hospital pharmacy
- Experience of working within mental healthcare setting

Skills and Competencies

- Advanced computer literacy skill
- Excellent interpersonal skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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