Specialist Clinical Pharmacist (Mental Health)

Overview

As a Specialist clinical pharmacist, you play a key role in delivering high-quality medicines care across inpatient and community mental health settings in Leeds. You will work within MDTs to optimise medicines and provide clinical guidance, education and training, with rotations across four sites to broaden experience. The role combines direct patient-facing work with medicines optimisation, service development, and opportunities to lead training and quality improvement initiatives. This is a development-focused position within a teaching trust that supports ongoing professional growth.

Pay / Benefits

• NHS Pension Scheme
• 27–33 days annual leave
• flexible working and remote working arrangements
• wellbeing support
• exclusive discounts and offers
• career development and education support

Responsibilities

• Provide pharmacy and medicines care to ensure safe, effective and appropriate use of medicines
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team and independently handle medicines queries
• Deliver medicines-related training to service users and staff
• Contribute to service developments, audits and research
• Engage in rotations across LYPFT and participate in on-call and weekend rotas
• Mentor and develop trainee pharmacists and colleagues

Key requirements

• BSc / MPharm in Pharmacy and GPhC registration
• Post graduate clinical pharmacy qualification or equivalent years’ experience
• Good written/verbal communication skills
• Experience in providing professional/educational/leadership support to others
• Any experience in secondary care/mental health pharmacy

• Good written/verbal communication
• Organisational skills
• Interpersonal collaboration
• Medicines optimisation
• Clinical pharmacy practice in mental health
• Training delivery and education

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