Specialist Clinical Pharmacist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Flexible working
- Posted
- 15/09/2026
- Closes
- 28/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a highly motivated clinical pharmacist to join the Pharmacy team, delivering clinical services on inpatient wards and within community teams. It involves reviewing prescriptions, providing medicines advice, and ensuring accurate Mental Health Act paperwork. The post offers a leadership and clinical development package, with the potential to develop from a Band 6 to a Band 7 role.
Key responsibilities
- Take local responsibility for pharmacist services to allocated clinical areas in line with rotas.
- Review prescriptions and information relating to individual patients and provide relevant advice about medicines.
- Ensure Mental Health Act paperwork is accurate and follow up where there are anomalies.
- Contribute to multi-disciplinary working within the allocated clinical area, influencing treatment plans.
- Promote best practice in medicines management, medicines optimisation and evidence-based prescribing.
Essential criteria
- Bands 6 and 7 - BSc, BPharm or MSc in Pharmacy
- Bands 6 and 7 - Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
- Bands 6 and 7 - Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
- Band 7 - Post-graduate diploma in mental health pharmacy or equivalent experience
- Bands 6 and 7 - Recent post-registration experience of working as a pharmacist
- Bands 6 and 7 - Experience of working under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Band 7 - Experience of working as a pharmacist in a hospital and/or mental health setting
- Bands 6 and 7 - Able to accurately interpret, record and recall information
- Bands 6 and 7 - Demonstrate excellent listening, motivational, negotiation and diplomacy skills
- Bands 6 and 7 - Able to work to a high level of accuracy in professional assessment of prescriptions and interpretation of information
- Bands 6 and 7 - Demonstrates ability to work within a team, to support individuals and the pharmacy service
- Bands 6 and 7 - Able to adapt to change in working practice and able to respond to changing situations
- Band 7 - Demonstrates the application of critical evaluation skills to review academic literature in the context of specialist practice
- Band 7 - Demonstrates a high level of professional autonomy and effective judgement, prioritisation and decision making
- Band 7 - Able to discuss options and negotiate alternatives with other healthcare professionals to provide best available pharmacotherapy to individual patients
- Band 7 - Show good communication skills, with the ability to provide relevant pharmaceutical information to all levels of healthcare staff, patients and carers
Desirable criteria
- Post graduate qualification in clinical pharmacy
- Non-medical prescribing qualification
- Show competence in using the following computer programs: o MS Word o MS Excel o MS Powerpoint o MS Outlook
- Show competence in using web-based resources
- Competence in using electronic patient records/systems
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist Clinical Pharmacist
The closing date is 28 September 2026
Job summary
Are you a clinical pharmacist with a passion for delivering outstanding care that brings the 6 Cs (care, compassion, commitment, courage, communication and competence) to life? If so, we want to hear from you. We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated pharmacist with a clinical and patient-facing focus to join our established and friendly Pharmacy team.
You will be responsible for delivering a clinical service on our inpatient wards and within our community teams. An excellent leadership and clinical development package will be on offer for our successful candidates as we aim to invest in our staff to deliver high standards of care to our patients.
This is a clinical role and a great opportunity for pharmacists from a variety of backgrounds to gain experience in mental health pharmacy.
Depending on experience, this post will either be a developmental post (band 6 role which will develop into a B7 as the postholder will be supported through a PG certificate and diploma competency framework) or direct into a band 7 role.
Main duties of the job
Take local responsibility for pharmacist services to allocated clinical areas in line with rotas. Review any relevant stock lists regularly, taking into consideration usage, service resilience,
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