# Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Community Mental Health Teams > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinical-pharmacist-community-mental-health-teams/4bd70348-ce36-47c8-8287-206325b2fc61 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinical-pharmacist-community-mental-health-teams/4bd70348-ce36-47c8-8287-206325b2fc61.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Pharmacist - **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 per annum inclusive of outer HCAs - **Contract type:** Permanent: N/A - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-17T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-03T15:20:47.306Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Lewisham/South_London_Maudsley_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Pharmacy/Pharmacy-v8150413 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8150413?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.slam.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview An opportunity has arisen to join the clinical pharmacy team at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, working primarily with the Lewisham Community Mental Health Teams. Pharmacy is an integral part of Lewisham’s developing community mental health services, and this Band 7 role offers the opportunity to work directly with service users and multidisciplinary teams to improve medicines use, continuity of care and outcomes closer to home. You will be a key clinical pharmacy contact for allocated community mental health teams, providing patient-facing consultations, specialist advice on psychotropic medicines and practical support to improve monitoring, adherence and shared decision-making. You will work across organisational boundaries with primary care, community pharmacies, acute hospitals, inpatient wards and crisis services. We are looking for a pharmacist with relevant mental health experience, sound clinical judgement and the confidence to manage an autonomous workload while contributing to a multidisciplinary team. Experience of primary care or community mental health services is desirable, but a clear commitment to developing in this area is essential. You will join a supportive Lewisham pharmacy team, receive regular professional supervision and have access to development opportunities in mental health pharmacy, independent prescribing, quality improvement, teaching and research. ### Main duties of the job You will provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service to allocated Lewisham Community Mental Health Teams, working closely with prescribers, care coordinators, nurses and other multidisciplinary colleagues. Your work will include reviewing complex medication regimens; advising on the initiation, adjustment and discontinuation of medicines; undertaking consultations with service users and carers; supporting the monitoring of high-risk psychotropic medicines and physical health; and addressing practical problems that may prevent people from gaining the best outcomes from treatment. You will support safe transfers of care between community teams, primary care, community pharmacies, acute hospitals, inpatient wards and crisis services. You will also contribute to medicines safety, staff training, audit, quality improvement and the collection of meaningful patient and service outcome data. If you are qualified as an independent prescriber, you will prescribe within your competence and agreed management plans. The post includes regular travel between the Ladywell Unit and community team bases across Lewisham. You may also contribute to inpatient or dispensary services and participate in the pharmacy on-call, late-duty, weekend or bank-holiday services where applicable. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - To provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service to allocated SLaM community mental health teams and, where required, home treatment teams - To work as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team, providing evidence-based advice on complex medicines-related issues, including drug interactions, high-dose antipsychotic treatment, unlicensed medicines and areas where the evidence base is limited. - To support safe transfers of care by liaising with primary care, community pharmacies, acute hospitals, inpatient wards, home treatment teams and other relevant services. - To have medicines related consultations with patients and carers; involve patients in treatment decisions; improve patient and carer satisfaction with information they receive about medicines - To improve physical health outcomes for community mental health patients, for example by participating in vaccination programmes, physical health clinics and physical health monitoring programmes - To support the community teams to use medicines safely and effectively and reduce medicines wastage - To implement medicines optimisation and quality improvement programmes in the teams - To provide medicines related training to community mental health team staff and other members of the pharmacy team - To prescribe medicines to service users within competence and agreed management plans - To participate in the inpatient or dispensary service on a rotational basis where required to by the site lead pharmacist - To record clinical interventions, patient outcomes and relevant service data to demonstrate the impact of the pharmacy service and inform medicines safety and service improvement ### 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** - Good written and verbal communication - Empathy and understanding of medication issues facing people with mental health problems and their carers - Ability to work without close supervision, making decisions and acting upon them within the limitations and understanding of the job responsibilities, or to refer appropriately - Good time management with ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines **Desirable** - Good computer skills, in particular for completing spreadsheets, graphs and reports (A) - Ability to direct own learning and adapt quickly to new and challenging situations ### Experience **Essential** - Relevant experience in patient-facing pharmacist roles - Relevant experience in NHS hospital pharmacy - Previous experience in providing clinical mental health services **Desirable** - Previous experience in working in primary care networks or GP practices ### Qualifications **Essential** - MPharm or equivalent - Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), with mandatory CPD **Desirable** - Postgraduate certificate/diploma in mental health or pharmacy practice or equivalent - Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society or Member / associate member of the CMHP - Independent prescriber ## Documents - [slam staff benefits (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2341) - [happy to talk flexible working (pdf, 680.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=1723) - [b7 pharmacist - lewisham cmhts - jd & person spec (pdf, 496.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10462990) ## 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.