Job overview
We have an excellent opportunity for a pharmacists to join our community mental health offer. You will work with the Community Mental Health Teams in Tameside acting as a key contributor to the multi-disciplinary team to support safe, effective and evidence based treatment to patients with serious and enduring mental illness. There is no dispensary or out of hours commitment providing the perfect opportunity for you to develop your clinical skills and broaden your mental health knowledge and experience.
Main duties of the job
To deliver the established clinical pharmacy service to the CMHTs in Tameside .
To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate specialist clinical mental health pharmacy services in your area.
To provide expert pharmaceutical advice and liaison to the CMHT, GPs, practice pharmacists, other healthcare professionals (HCPs), patients, and carers.
To lead on ensuring that drug therapy is evidence based, safe, cost effective and appropriate to the individual patient.
To provide training to the CMHT / Neighbourhood Mental Health team, GPs and other HCPs within Primary Care around the use of psychotropic medicines.
To ensure that pharmacy services work within agreed guidelines to ensure effective medicines management
To provide cover for other pharmacists providing a service to and employed by Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, as requested.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will deliver the established clinical pharmacy service to the CMHTs in Tameside; the main responsibilities are covered in the job description
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This advert is for Senior Clinical Pharmacist Community Mental Health with Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust in Ashton Under Lyne, North West, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is £57,528 - £64,750 PA pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 21 Jun 2026.
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