# Senior Clinical Pharmacist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinical-pharmacist/9ae3f4dc-d05b-4e93-b946-c61c3390ad07 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/senior-clinical-pharmacist/9ae3f4dc-d05b-4e93-b946-c61c3390ad07.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Redesmere (Trust Headquarters) - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Pharmacist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-08T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-25T09:30:50.424Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cheshire/Chester/Cheshire_Wirral_Partnership_NHS_FoundationTrust/Senior_Clinical_Pharmacist/Senior_Clinical_Pharmacist-v8227553 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8227553?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.cwp.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are excited to offer new opportunities within our highly respected pharmacy team, working across Chester, Wirral and Macclesfield. Due to new investment in our workforce, we are now recruiting passionate pharmacy professionals to join our friendly, multidisciplinary teams. Our dispensing service is fully outsourced, freeing you from dispensary commitments and allowing you to focus on clinical practice. In addition, on-call responsibilities are managed remotely, offering greater flexibility and work–life balance. Role highlights: - Deliver high-quality, patient-focused clinical pharmacy services - Undertake medicines reconciliation, reuse checks, and ordering - Work closely with multidisciplinary teams to optimise medicines use - Support specialist areas including perinatal mental health (Mother & Baby Unit), CAMHs inpatient services, low secure forensic units & MHIST (mental health intensive support team) - Contribute to service development, audit, teaching and quality improvement - Opportunities to develop clinical expertise and leadership skills ### Main duties of the job - To provide, develop and promote a responsive, patient focused, highly specialised clinical pharmacy service to patients and staff within Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. - To deliver specialist information and expert advice to all members of the multidisciplinary team to maximise patient pharmaceutical care and ensure that medicines are prescribed, administered and supplied in a safe, effective and economic manner and to reduce harm caused by medication errors. - To provide direct supervision and training to clinical pharmacy staff, develop and provide training regarding the use of medicines and medicines management principles to clinical staff, non-clinical staff, service users and carers. - To support the Head of Clinical Pharmacy Services- Bed Based & Place Based in the delivery of all aspects of the Pharmacy Service ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please download a copy of the job description (see ‘documents to download’ section below) for full details of the main responsibilities for this role. At CWP, our recruitment selection processes are based on both competence (see person specification for details) and values. CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values in their everyday life and we use a values-based approach in our interviews, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it. Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust’s Values and think about how these align with your own personal values. The supporting information section in your application should reflect your understanding of the Trust’s Values and associated behaviours and you should provide examples from your work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviours. An applicant guide to help and support you through your recruitment journey can be accessed at the bottom of this page. Further help and support for completing your application can be accessed via our website. If you need any further guidance to help you complete your application, contact our recruitment team via email at: cwp.recruitment@nhs.net or by calling 01244 393100. If you have a disability that meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the ‘essential’ criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer ‘YES’ to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?’ Please inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes. The trust offers a Guaranteed Interview Scheme to any armed forces community applicants who meet the essential criteria for the post and encourages applications from armed forces reservists or cadet force adult volunteers. Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies. New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above. Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application. We hope to welcome you to Team CWP very soon! ### 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 ### Experience **Essential** - Good leadership and supervisory skills - Able to effect and manage change - Understanding of and ability to implement trust priorities - High level of computer literacy - Hospital Pharmacy experience or experience of working collaboratively in a multidisciplinary setting - Research or Audit experience **Desirable** - Experience in management of others - Project Management experience ### Trust Values **Essential** - Demonstrate alignment with Trust Values (6 C’s: Commitment, Communication, Care, Courage, Compassion, Competency) ### Qualifications **Essential** - Vocational Masters Degree in Pharmacy (4 Years Course) or Equivalent - Completed and passed Pre-Registration training and professional exam - General Pharmaceutical Council Registered Practising Pharmacist Member - Post-graduate Certificate or Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experiential learning. - Evidence of continued professional development **Desirable** - Independent and/or Supplementary Prescriber - Member of the College of Mental Health Pharmacy ### Knowledge and Expertise **Essential** - 4 year experience as a Qualified Pharmacist. - Expert knowledge and practical clinical skills, within area of own expertise - Mental Health Knowledge **Desirable** - Mental Health experience and good knowledge of Mental Health services ## Documents - [trust profile (pdf, 521.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2737) - [privacy notice (pdf, 177.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1515) - [job description (pdf, 384.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10536908) - [risk assessment (pdf, 776.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10536909) - [application guide (pdf, 28.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2738) - [dbs update service applicant guide (pdf, 228.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=623) - [recruitment of ex-offenders policy (pdf, 167.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=618) ## 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.