Neighborhood Mental Health Pharmacist

Transformationunitgm; Ashton; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking a Senior Mental Health Pharmacist to enhance community mental health services. This role requires working as a vital member of multi-disciplinary teams in Tameside, Bury, and Rochdale. Responsibilities include leading clinical pharmacy services, providing expert advice, and training healthcare professionals. Candidates should have relevant qualifications and experience in psychiatric pharmacy practice. Opportunities for professional development are available, with no dispensary or on-call commitments.

Benefits

Support for further qualifications

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Current member of the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Qualified Independent Prescriber or undergoing qualification.
• Experience in initiating, leading and implementing change.

Responsibilities

• Deliver established clinical pharmacy service to Community Mental Health Teams.
• Lead on non-medical prescribing pathway and act as independent prescriber.
• Provide training to healthcare professionals on psychotropic medicines.

Skills

Current member of the General Pharmaceutical Council

Independent Prescriber

Experience in psychiatric pharmacy practice

Training delivery experience

Education

Relevant post graduate qualification (e.g., Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy)

Job description

Employer Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Tameside / Bury / Rochdale depending on role Town Ashton-under-Lyne / Bury / Rochdale Salary £55,690 - £62,682 PA pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 04/01/2026 23:59

NHS AfC: Band 8a

If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our#PennineCarePeople

We have an excellent opportunity for a 3 senior mental health pharmacists to join our expanding community mental health offer. One of the roles is based within the Community Mental Health Teams in Tameside and the other two within the Living Well & Access Teams Bury and Rochdale. 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. Within Living Well & Access Teams the post-holder will act as a prescriber and be responsible for developing the clinical pharmacy service and medication related pathway within your borough. 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 or to provide, manage, organise and develop the clinical pharmacy service to the Living Well and Access Teams across your borough.

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 . Living Well Team, GPs, practice pharmacists, other healthcare professionals (HCPs), patients, and carers.

To lead on the non-medical prescribing pathway within the Living Well service and act as an independent prescriber of medication, ensuring that drug therapy is evidence based, safe, cost effective and appropriate to the individual patient.

To provide training to the CMHT / Living Well 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.

Working for our organisation

You will work within a multi-disciplinary CMHT or Living Well & Access Team within your borough . You will also be supported by a lively clinical pharmacy team who are dedicated to delivering excellent services and cover community services, assessment services, specialist services and inpatient services. You will receive clinical and and management supervision and have opportunities to develop yourself and the role through education, training, team meetings and opportunities such as Quality Improvement and audit. You will be supported to undertake further qualifications as needed . The role is entirely clinical with no dispensary, out of hours or on call commitment

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will deliver the established clinical pharmacy service to the CMHTs in Tameside or depending on post you will provide, manage, organise and develop the clinical pharmacy service to the Living Well and Access Teams across Bury or Rochdale; the main responsibilities are covered in the job description

Person specification

• Current member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Qualified Independent Prescriber or undergoing qualification
• developing policies and strategies

essential and desireable

• Experience of delivering training
• Experience in a number of areas of psychiatric pharmacy practice
• Experience in initiating, leading and implementing change and new developments
• Experience of developing guidelines or protocols
• Experience of people management

person specfication

• Current member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Relevant post graduate qualification, i.e. Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice or equivalent experience
• Experience in a number of areas of psychiatric pharmacy practice
• Experience in initiating, leading and implementing change and new developments

🌍 Sponsorship Information - We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship.You can review the list of eligible role and requirements on the government website.

📬 After You Apply - Once your application is submitted, you’ll receive updates via email. Shortlisting is based on how well you meet the criteria outlined in the person specification. Only shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview, and invitations will be sent by email.

✅If You're Offered the Role - If successful, the hiring manager will contact you directly with a verbal offer. They will then notify the Recruitment Team and submit the necessary paperwork. You’ll receive a formal conditional offer via email

🔍 Pre-Employment Checks - To confirm your suitability for the role, we will carry out pre-employment checks in line withNHS Employment Check Standards . These include:

• Identity verification
• Right to work check
• Disclosure and barring service (DBS)/Criminal record check (dependent on role)
• Professional registration and/or qualification check
• Occupational health assessment
• Employment history and reference validation

All applicants external to Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust will be required to provide their HMRC employment history to cover the most recent three years employment. This information will used to validate employment history andreferences.

If you require sponsorship, we will assess your eligibility based on current government guidance. If the role is not eligible and you cannot demonstrate your right to work, your conditional offer may be withdrawn.

🚀 Once Checks Are Complete -

The Recruitment Team will coordinate with you and the hiring manager to confirm a start date. You’ll be booked onto a Trust Welcome Session and receive your Pennine Care NHS Terms and Conditions.

We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI), and we strive to ensure our workforce reflects the communities we serve. We actively encourage applications from individuals of diverse backgrounds to help us grow, innovate, and improve.

If you wish to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme, you will be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria for the role.

If you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please contact us on 0161 716 3181 as early as possible so we can support you.

Please note:

• We do not accept unsolicited contact from recruitment agencies. Hiring managers should not be contacted directly.
• We may close vacancies early if we receive a high volume of applications. To ensure your application is considered, please apply as soon as possible.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.