Specialist Pharmacist Urgent Care Mental Health

Job overview

Are you passionate about improving the lives of people living with mental health conditions?  We are offering a fantastic opportunity  to join our friendly and supportive Pharmacy team as a Specialist Pharmacist within our Mental Health and Learning Disabilities services.  Based in urgent care services in Hastings, you'll play a vital role in ensuring safe, effective and evidence-based use of medicines.

You'll work closely with multidisciplinary teams, supporting both staff and patients, and contribute to service development across the East Sussex locality.  Full training and further accreditation support will be provided.

We’re excited to be bringing a new medicines supply service in-house later in 2026—an important step that creates fresh opportunities for innovation, skill development, and career progression across our team. This Pharmacy Hub will be situated at our Swandean site in Worthing. This change will also strengthen how we support our trainee pharmacy professionals on their career journeys. As we grow our dispensary function, all staff will play a key role in supporting the implementation and delivery of this service while we recruit into new dispensary roles, helping to shape a dynamic and collaborative working environment.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation services
• Support the safe and cost-effective use of medicines
• Collaborate with ward staff, pharmacy colleagues and wider MDTs
• Contribute to patient safety, education and continuity of care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We are looking for:

• GPhC-registered pharmacist (newly qualified welcome)
• Strong interest in mental health
• Proactive, collaborative and patient-centred approach

Join us and be part of a Trust that values innovation, staff wellbeing and making a real difference in mental health care.

Please see attached job description for a more detailed breakdown of the role and responsibilities.  For an informal discussion please contact us.

We’re excited to be bringing a new medicines supply service in-house later in 2026—an important step that creates fresh opportunities for innovation, skill development, and career progression across our team. This Pharmacy Hub will be situated at our Swandean site in Worthing. This change will also strengthen how we support our trainee pharmacy professionals on their career journeys. As we grow our dispensary function, all staff will play a key role in supporting the implementation and delivery of this service while we recruit into new dispensary roles, helping to shape a dynamic and collaborative working environment.