# Advanced Clinical Pharmacist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/advanced-clinical-pharmacist/8f318f75-7109-4ed8-9bd6-c0113663ed4b - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/advanced-clinical-pharmacist/8f318f75-7109-4ed8-9bd6-c0113663ed4b.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** St Mary's Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Pharmacist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 Per Annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-08T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-24T14:10:46.514Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Yorkshire/Leeds/Leeds_York_Partnership_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Pharmacy/Pharmacy-v8320855 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8320855?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic pharmacist to join our progressive, pharmacy team to cover an upcoming maternity leave. - To provide advanced clinical pharmacy and medicines related care to service users with mental illness, learning disabilities and substance misuse problems. - Your focus will be to lead on and provide complex medicines optimisation advice and professional leadership to the inpatient services based at one or more LYPFT hospital sites. - You will work as an integral member of the Multidisciplinary Team(s) but also independently to proactively identify, respond to and develop patient centred treatment recommendations for medicines queries, prescribe medicines if appropriately qualified and within scope, speak with service users/carers about medication to improve service users’ outcomes and experience of their medication. - You will lead and provide professional guidance to a team of pharmacists and technicians based at the Newsam Centre to deliver an efficient pharmacy service alongside the Lead Technicians. This will include undertaking line management responsibility for Clinical Pharmacists, Band 6 / Specialist Clinical Pharmacists, Band 7 pharmacists and mentor other pharmacists in the Trust (including rotational trainees/undergraduates) as required. - As part of an excellent teaching organisation, you will have a responsibility to educate and develop the pharmacy and wider healthcare workforce. ### Main duties of the job - Participate in the on-call and weekend rota working at one of our inpatient sites. - You will have a 60:40 split of clinical to service development/management responsibilities - Participate in the medicines information rota. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued. All our information is available in accessible formats. Please contact the Recruitment team recruitment.lypft@nhs.net Attached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application. If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments. To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the Candidate Guide to Values Based Recruitment. This document provides you with information to help you apply. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Excellent communication skills including verbal, written and electronic ### Values **Desirable** - Tell us about a time when you spotted something small going wrong and did something to stop it becoming a bigger issue. - Tell us about a time when you realised a colleague or someone you know needed a bit of support and you offered to help. - Tell us about a time when you showed someone kindness or understanding. ### Experience **Essential** - Postgraduate clinical pharmacy/ pharmacy practice or equivalent years’ experience, Experience of project/change/ service management - Experience of hospital pharmacy ### Qualifications **Essential** - Masters or Bachelor degree in Pharmacy (+ 1 years pre-registration experience) + Member of General Pharmaceutical Council ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 360.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10642433) - [person specification (pdf, 384.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10642432) - [reasonable adjustments (pdf, 296.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2928) - [guide to values based recruitment (pdf, 498.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2929) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.