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Job requirements
Essential
36 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Other
Works calmly under pressure.
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Understands and shows commitment to continuing personal development.
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Be able to achieve objectives.
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Able to use initiative and show appropriate level of self reliance.
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Friendly personality; helpful to other staff and patients.
- Other
Adaptable
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Demonstrates ability to meets set targets
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Demonstrate ability to organise self in order to ensure efficient use of time.
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Self motivated
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The ability and willingness to deputise for senior staff while recognising limitations of experience and ability
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Takes responsibilities for own actions
- Knowledge
Up to date knowledge of current white papers/ national/ government reports affecting psychiatry
- Knowledge
Drugs used in psychiatry.
- Knowledge
Aware of effect of political changes on healthcare
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Sound knowledge of drug management of Mental Health disorders including national guidance
- Knowledge
Clinical and critical appraisal skills
- Knowledge
Able to influence all grades of medical staff
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Evidence in writing procedures, clinical guidelines and policy/protocols.
- Knowledge
The ability to identify and prioritise clinical work load
- Knowledge
Communicates with medical, nursing and pharmacy staff in clear precise and appropriate manner.
- Knowledge
To have an awareness of national and local priorities
- Knowledge
The ability to identify and manage risks
- Knowledge
Ability to evaluate own work
- Knowledge
Enhances the quality of patient care
- Knowledge
Demonstrates awareness of the clinical governance agenda
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Teaching and presentation skills
- Knowledge
Able to work as part of team or alone
- Knowledge
Shows empathy towards patients’ needs
- Experiance
Proven experience of good performance in previous posts, where relevant
- Experiance
Demonstrate ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate medicine related information to Mental Health patients, carers and clinical staff
- Experiance
Previous evaluated experience of mentorship
- Experiance
Setting objectives and appraisal techniques
- Experiance
Clinical Audit.
- Education/Qualification
Masters Degree in Pharmacy
- Education/Qualification
Member of the General Pharmaceutical council and/or Royal Pharmaceutical society
- Education/Qualification
Psychiatric qualification or significant experience in psychiatry
Desirable
4 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
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Own car and full driver’s license.
- Experiance
Monitoring and advising on drug expenditure
- Experiance
Working in a community setting.
- Education/Qualification
Supplementary or Independent Prescriber (or willing to work towards this)
Job overview
Are you an enthusiastic, 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
- To support and coordinate a comprehensive clinical pharmacy and medicines management service to the City and Hackney and forensic directorates.
- 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.
- To attend directorate management meetings including Safety and inpatient management meetings
- To represent the Directorate at Trust-wide meetings
- To manage audit and quality improvement projects for the City and Hackney and forensic service pharmacy alongside the lead pharmacist
- To support the clinical pharmacists and medicines management technicians in their delivery of the clinical service.
- To attend regional clinical pharmacy network groups and network and feedback with initiatives.
- To ensure the effective day to day management of the Trust Medicines Information service. (this service is currently under review)
- To attend and contribute to the Trust Senior Pharmacy Managers meetings.
- To attend and contribute to the Trusts medicines committee
- To contribute to ELFT Independent Prescribing and Education & Training strategy
- To deputize for the Lead Pharmacist in his or her absence
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The job description has been reviewed to provide a greater narrative around the different services involved.
For further information concerning this advert, please feel free to contact [email protected]
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.
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This advert is for Clinical Lead Pharmacist for Forensic Directorate with East London NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is £61,927 - £68,676 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 08 Nov 2026.
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