Job overview
Are you a passionate, forward-thinking pharmacist ready to make a real impact in mental health care? Join our dynamic and supportive Mental Health Pharmacy Team at Hywel Dda UHB. You will be working at the heart of multidisciplinary teams to continue and improve the medicine management service for our patients and work closely with the Mental Health & Learning Disabilities (MH&LD) Clinical Care Group (CCG) to support high-quality, consistent care across the system.
A standout feature of our service is our dedicated specialist Mental Health dispensary, which provides a high-quality pharmacy service to our mental health wards, including:
- Adult Acute Wards
- Older Adult Wards
- Low Secure Unit (LSU)
- Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
You will act as a senior professional presence within the specialist Mental Health dispensary, overseeing day-to-day activity and ensuring the service runs safely, efficiently, and smoothly.
This integrated model gives you the opportunity to work closely with dispensary, ward, and clinical teams to ensure safe, effective, and innovative medicines use.
This would be an excellent opportunity for a registered pharmacist to further their experience in a range of areas and to help with their career development.
Join us and help shape and deliver the future of mental health pharmacy in Hywel Dda.
This position is Health Board wide but based in Carmarthen.
Main duties of the job
As an Advanced Pharmacist, you will:
- Take responsibility for managing and supporting dispensary operations, working closely with pharmacy technicians and support staff
- Provide expert clinical pharmacy input across inpatient mental health services
- Lead and manage the safe and effective supply of clozapine across the MH&LD CCG, ensuring compliance with monitoring requirements and supporting continuity of care
- Lead on medicines optimisation, safety, and governance initiatives
- Work collaboratively within MDTs to influence prescribing and improve patient care
- Support and develop pharmacy staff and trainees
- Contribute to service development, audits, and quality improvement programmes
- Help shape and enhance the role of the specialist MH dispensary service
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full job description and person specification attached within the supporting documents.
The Health Board is committed to supporting its staff to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing patient and service user experiences. In our commitment to increase the number of staff who are able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
The ability to communicate in Welsh is desirable for this post. If you do not meet the Welsh Language requirements specified, the Health Board offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you meet these minimal desirable requirements during the course of your employment with us.
Interviews will be held on 17/08/2026.
Person specification
Other
Essential
- Flexible approach to needs of the service to undertake on call work, weekend and evening opening
- Ability to travel between sites in a timely manner
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge and experience of healthcare
- Specialist knowledge of medicines management systems and process in an integrated NHS
- Specialist knowledge of own field of practice gained through diploma level training and experience
Desirable
- Demonstrate specialist knowledge in more than one field
- Practice Research Experience
- Training and education of pharmacy staff and other HCPs
- Experience of managing change
- Experience of service improvement
Language requirements
Desirable
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1)
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- Master's degree in Pharmacy
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Postgraduate MSc or Diploma in area of practice or equivalent experience or qualifications
Desirable
- Accredited supervisor for foundation or post foundation Pharmacists
- Independent Prescriber
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Registered as QC if role includes aseptics
- Aseptic Preparation and Dispensing of Medicines (Leeds University) or equivalent if role includes aseptics
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This advert is for Advanced Pharmacist - Mental Health and Learning Disabilities with Hywel Dda University Health Board in Haverfordwest, West Wales, Wales. It is listed as a Band 8 Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is £58,379 - £65,723 per annum, pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 06 Aug 2026.
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