Clinical Lead Pharmacist for Forensic Directorate: Sponsorship Available

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Are you anenthusiastic, motivated and committed pharmacist? If so we would like you to join our mental health pharmacy team!

You will need to have the skills to be able to work within the wider multi-disciplinary team of nurses and doctors and other allied healthcare professionals and managers. You will want to develop and improve the reliability and quality of our clinical pharmacy service. You will need to have specific experience working with pharmacy teams and patients within the mental health setting. You will want to reach targets set by the Trust and by the pharmacy service. You must be self- motivated and able to motivate others.

Our dynamic and creative ELFT pharmacy team provides pharmacy services to a wide range of community and inpatient service users in Luton and Bedforshire, City and Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets. This includes children and young people to adults of working age, older adults, and forensic patients.

Main duties of the job

1. To support and coordinate a comprehensive clinical pharmacy and medicines management service to the City and Hackney and forensic directorates.

2. To ensure the provision of a high quality, responsive and patient centred pharmacy service to all patients within the directorate by implementing and monitoring the Trust’s clinical pharmacy standards.

3. To attend directorate management meetings including Safety and inpatient management meetings

4. To represent the Directorate at Trust-wide meetings

5. To manage audit and quality improvement projects for the City and Hackney and forensic service pharmacy alongside the lead pharmacist

6. To support the clinical pharmacists and medicines management technicians in their delivery of the clinical service.

7. To attend regional clinical pharmacy network groups and network and feedback with initiatives.

8. To ensure the effective day to day management of the Trust Medicines Information service. (this service is currently under review)

9. To attend and contribute to the Trust Senior Pharmacy Managers meetings.

10. To attend and contribute to the Trusts medicines committee

11. To contribute to ELFT Independent Prescribing and Education & Training strategy

12. To deputize for the Lead Pharmacist in his or her absence

Person Specification

Education/Qualification

Essential

  • Masters Degree in Pharmacy
  • Member of the General Pharmaceutical council and/or Royal Pharmaceutical society
  • Psychiatric qualification or significant experience in psychiatry

Desirable

  • Supplementary or Independent Prescriber (or willing to work towards this)

Knowledge

Essential

  • Up to date knowledge of current white papers/ national/ government reports affecting psychiatry
  • Drugs used in psychiatry.
  • Aware of effect of political changes on healthcare
  • Sound knowledge of drug management of Mental Health disorders including national guidance
  • Clinical and critical appraisal skills
  • Able to influence all grades of medical staff
  • Evidence in writing procedures, clinical guidelines and policy/protocols.
  • The ability to identify and prioritise clinical work load
  • Communicates with medical, nursing and pharmacy staff in clear precise and appropriate manner.
  • To have an awareness of national and local priorities
  • The ability to identify and manage risks
  • Ability to evaluate own work
  • Enhances the quality of patient care
  • Demonstrates awareness of the clinical governance agenda
  • Teaching and presentation skills
  • Able to work as part of team or alone
  • Shows empathy towards patients’ needs

Experiance

Essential

  • Proven experience of good performance in previous posts, where relevant
  • Demonstrate ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate medicine related information to Mental Health patients, carers and clinical staff
  • Previous evaluated experience of mentorship
  • Setting objectives and appraisal techniques
  • Clinical Audit.

Desirable

  • Monitoring and advising on drug expenditure
  • Working in a community setting.

Other

Essential

  • Works calmly under pressure.
  • Understands and shows commitment to continuing personal development.
  • Be able to achieve objectives.
  • Able to use initiative and show appropriate level of self reliance.
  • Friendly personality; helpful to other staff and patients.
  • Adaptable
  • Demonstrates ability to meets set targets
  • Demonstrate ability to organise self in order to ensure efficient use of time.
  • Self motivated
  • The ability and willingness to deputise for senior staff while recognising limitations of experience and ability
  • Takes responsibilities for own actions

Desirable

  • Own car and full driver’s license.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 22 November 2026

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