(Part-Time) Advanced Pharmacist and Independent Prescriber - CMHT

Job overview

Are you an experienced pharmacist prescriber looking to step into a truly autonomous and innovative role?

We're looking for a new Advanced Pharmacist and Independent Prescriber to join our mental health services in Buckinghamshire on a part-time basis. This is a rare opportunity for you to lead and shape a developing ADHD medication review service across Buckinghamshire’s Community Mental Health Teams. You’ll combine clinical expertise, independent prescribing, and service development to deliver meaningful improvements for patients.

What makes this role different?

• You’ll help build a service from the ground up, not just maintain one
• You’ll work in a highly collaborative MDT environment with strong medical support
• You’ll influence care across both primary and secondary care systems

Main duties of the job

• Lead a specialist ADHD medication review clinic across Buckinghamshire CMHTs
• Carry out annual reviews, titrations, and medication optimisation for adults with ADHD
• Prescribe independently and make complex clinical decisions with appropriate consultant support
• Monitor physical health and ensure safe, high-quality prescribing practice
• Work closely with CMHT teams to identify and respond to wider mental health needs

Beyond direct clinical work, you’ll:

• Play a central role in designing and refining the ADHD clinic model
• Act as the pharmacy lead for ADHD, supporting colleagues across the directorate
• Build strong relationships with GPs and primary care, supporting shared care arrangements
• Contribute to medicines optimisation, audit and quality improvement

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.

The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.

We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.