Advanced Specialist Pharmacist (Forensic and Medicines Safety)

Job overview

We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for an Advanced Specialist Pharmacist to play a key role within our expanding pharmacy service. This post sits at the heart of medicines safety, and our specialist forensic pathways, supporting some of the most complex and rewarding areas of mental health care within North London NHS Foundation Trust.

As we continue our trust-wide transformation programme, we are strengthening our approach to medicines safety, governance, and digital innovation. In this specialist role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Provide expert pharmaceutical leadership within forensic mental health services;
• Lead and support medicines safety initiatives trust-wide, ensuring high standards of governance and learning;
• Contribute to the development of safer systems of care, aligned with national strategy and the NHS Long Term Plan;
• Collaborate closely with multidisciplinary teams, consultants, operational leaders, and quality improvement groups;
• Influence policy, clinical pathways, and risk management related to medicines use;
• Advance your specialist expertise within a supportive, forward-thinking environment.

We are a friendly, inclusive, and motivated pharmacy team working across multiple sites. We are seeking a dynamic, confident, and proactive pharmacist who is passionate about medicines safety and forensic mental health, and who is committed to driving safer, more effective medicines optimisation across our services.

Main duties of the job

The Advanced Specialist Pharmacist for Forensics and Medicines Safety will provide strong leadership to the pharmacy workforce and ensure effective and safe provision of pharmacy services. They will support the Senior Lead Pharmacists with the operational delivery of the Medicines Safety Programme and Medicines Optimisation Programme for North London Foundation Trust (NLFT) and deputise when required. The Advanced Specialist Pharmacist will also provide a pharmacy service to forensic mental health wards and teams served by NLFT and act as the pharmacy forensic specialist. This includes provision of clinical pharmacy services, medicines information, patient counselling, and ensuring compliance with trust policies and guidelines as well as Medicines legislation. The role also requires management and supervision of team members. Attendance at trust wide meetings and reporting through local clinical governance structures is also required.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To support the Deputy Chief Pharmacist in leading, developing, delivering, and evaluating pharmacy services and medicines optimisation in their allocated area as delegated by the Chief Pharmacist.

• To support the Senior Lead Pharmacist Medicines Safety, Risk and Physical Health in delivering the Trust’s medicines safety programme.

• To be an active member of the Pharmacy team with allocated management responsibilities.

• Provide leadership, maintain and improve standards of clinical pharmacy practice, quality assurance, risk management and other issues of clinical governance related to medicines optimisation.

• To play a leading role in delivering the Medicines Optimisation Strategy.

• To hold a Trustwide leadership position for Medicines Optimisation in Forensic services and maintain a clinical commitment.