Principal Clinical Pharmacist Mental Health - Division Leads

Job summary

We are seeking two experienced and motivated clinical pharmacists to join our pharmacy team as Division Lead Pharmacists (Band 8a).Our Division Lead Pharmacists provide senior clinical leadership across the following divisions:
Adult Acute and Urgent Care Services;
Specialist Services (Children and Young People and Older People);
Learning Disabilities and Forensic Services; and Adult Community Services. Our two current vacancies are within the Adult Acute and Urgent Care Division and the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), Community Perinatal Mental Health Service and Mother & Baby Unit.

These are senior leadership roles within the Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation Team, providing strategic, clinical and operational leadership across a diverse portfolio of specialist services. The post holders will lead the development and delivery of high-quality, evidence-based and patient-centred pharmacy services, ensuring the safe and effective use of medicines across both inpatient and community settings.

The successful candidates will work closely with senior clinicians, managers and multidisciplinary teams to influence prescribing practice, improve patient outcomes and drive medicines optimisation initiatives across the service.

This is an excellent opportunity for pharmacists looking to progress their career within specialist mental health services whilst contributing to innovative service development and quality improvement programmes.

Main duties of the jobAs a Division Lead Pharmacist, you will provide highly specialist clinical pharmacy expertise in mental health, learning disabilities and forensic services

You will lead and develop pharmacy services across the assigned division, ensuring high-quality, evidence-based and cost-effective medicines use Provide highly specialist clinical pharmacy expertise in mental health, learning disabilities and forensic services

Lead and develop pharmacy services across assigned divisions, ensuring high-quality, evidence-based and cost-effective medicines use Influence prescribing practice and contribute to Trust-wide medicines optimisation strategy and governance

Use Independent Prescribing skills (where qualified) within agreed scopes and Trust policy

Support medicines safety through incident review, learning, audit and quality improvement initiatives

Line manage and develop Band 6/7 pharmacists and other pharmacy staff, fostering a strong learning culture

Deliver and oversee education and training for pharmacists, technicians and wider healthcare professionals

Contribute to policy development, formulary management and Trust committees (e.g. Drugs & Therapeutics)
Work collaboratively across services and systems to support safe and seamless transfer of car

About us Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings.

Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful.  return, we can offer you:leadership and management training opportunities 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (subject to a minimum and a maximum payment pro rata)27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
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