Job summary
We have a fantastic opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic experienced pharmacist to join our progressive pharmacy team as an advanced clinical pharmacist. As a member of our senior pharmacy leadership team, your role would include operational responsibility for one or more pharmacy hubs providing leadership and guidance to a team of pharmacists and technical staff as well as being instrumental in delivering service development and improvement. You will also have a clinical role by providing high quality pharmaceutical care to designated inpatient and community mental health service users.
This post will be mainly based at the Newsam Centre, but cross-site travel will be required when necessary.
Interviews for this post will be held on Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th July. Informal visits to the department to learn more about this opportunity can be arranged on request. A requirement to participate in weekend and bank holidays on a rotational basis will be necessary.
Main duties of the job
As an advanced clinical pharmacist in LYPFT, you will have operational leadership for one or more pharmacy hubs providing inpatient and community mental health services. You will provide advanced level clinical pharmacy services directly to support service users and healthcare colleagues to get the best from medicines use. You will drive service changes and provide supervision, mentoring and line management to colleagues as an employee of this teaching foundation trust.
We have a range of general and specialist mental health services including inpatient Adult and Older Peoples, Forensic, Recovery and Rehabilitation and community psychiatric care to the population of Leeds, forensic and CAMHS services to the population of York and tertiary specialist services such as Child and Young Peoples Service and the National Inpatient Centre for Psychological Medicine.
About us
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.
We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.
Applicants should be aware that any individual requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only (this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Your role is to provide advanced clinical pharmacy and medicines related care to service users with mental illness and learning disabilities in inpatient and community settings. You will be involved in the provision of a clinical and responsible for the operational pharmacy service from one or more of the LYPFT pharmacy sites / hubs (and other organisations under an SLA) to allocated units. As an advanced pharmacist, you will be responsible for the provision of pharmacy and medicines related care to allocated units to ensure medicines prescribed are safe, effective, optimised and appropriate.
You will work as an integral member of the Multidisciplinary Team(s) but also independently to proactively identify, respond to and formulate treatment recommendations for complex medicines related queries, prescribe medicines if appropriately qualified and within scope, speak with service users/carers about medication and support the efficient delivery of the pharmacy service. You will lead on service development and projects as required by the department/ service area, working with partner organisations / primary care. You will provide professional pharmacist support to the site you are based and mentor other pharmacists in the trust (including rotational trainees) as required and undertake line management and education and training responsibilities. You will also participate in the on-call and weekend rota working at one of our inpatient sites.
You will ideally have experience of working in secondary care and within mental health pharmacy and have excellent organisational and communication skills. In return, we will support your personal and continued professional development in general and mental health pharmacy, whilst working alongside other operational advanced pharmacists and supported by lead pharmacists.
This post is full time and includes occasional weekend working; flexible working and job share requests will be considered. This position requires on-site working, access to a car is required.
For any other information and informal discussion contact Michael Dixon (Lead Pharmacist for Medicines Information/R&D/Audit) on telephone 07929 015383 (Michael.dixon@nhs.net), please note on AL 26/05/25-30/05/25.Or Phillippa Lofts (Strategic Lead Pharmacist for Workforce Development) on telephone 07980 957878 (phillippa.lofts@nhs.net), please note on AL 02/06/25-06/06/25.
We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.
All our information is available in accessible formats. Please contact the Recruitment team recruitment.lypft@nhs.netAttached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application.
If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.
So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Guide to Values Based Recruitment. This document provides you with information to help you apply.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Your role is to provide advanced clinical pharmacy and medicines related care to service users with mental illness and learning disabilities in inpatient and community settings. You will be involved in the provision of a clinical and responsible for the operational pharmacy service from one or more of the LYPFT pharmacy sites / hubs (and other organisations under an SLA) to allocated units. As an advanced pharmacist, you will be responsible for the provision of pharmacy and medicines related care to allocated units to ensure medicines prescribed are safe, effective, optimised and appropriate.
You will work as an integral member of the Multidisciplinary Team(s) but also independently to proactively identify, respond to and formulate treatment recommendations for complex medicines related queries, prescribe medicines if appropriately qualified and within scope, speak with service users/carers about medication and support the efficient delivery of the pharmacy service. You will lead on service development and projects as required by the department/ service area, working with partner organisations / primary care. You will provide professional pharmacist support to the site you are based and mentor other pharmacists in the trust (including rotational trainees) as required and undertake line management and education and training responsibilities. You will also participate in the on-call and weekend rota working at one of our inpatient sites.
You will ideally have experience of working in secondary care and within mental health pharmacy and have excellent organisational and communication skills. In return, we will support your personal and continued professional development in general and mental health pharmacy, whilst working alongside other operational advanced pharmacists and supported by lead pharmacists.
This post is full time and includes occasional weekend working; flexible working and job share requests will be considered. This position requires on-site working, access to a car is required.
For any other information and informal discussion contact Michael Dixon (Lead Pharmacist for Medicines Information/R&D/Audit) on telephone 07929 015383 (Michael.dixon@nhs.net), please note on AL 26/05/25-30/05/25.Or Phillippa Lofts (Strategic Lead Pharmacist for Workforce Development) on telephone 07980 957878 (phillippa.lofts@nhs.net), please note on AL 02/06/25-06/06/25.
We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.
All our information is available in accessible formats. Please contact the Recruitment team recruitment.lypft@nhs.netAttached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application.
If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.
So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Guide to Values Based Recruitment. This document provides you with information to help you apply.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree- BSc/ MSc in Pharmacy and Registration with the General Pharmaceutical council Qualification - Postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy/ mental health or equivalent year experience
Skills
Essential
- Good written/verbal communication skills Evidence of managing / supervising others / teams Evidence of leading / involvement in service development / improvement projects
Experience
Essential
- Experience in secondary care - experience of hospital pharmacy
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge/ Experience in mental health pharmacy across any setting
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree- BSc/ MSc in Pharmacy and Registration with the General Pharmaceutical council Qualification - Postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy/ mental health or equivalent year experience
Skills
Essential
- Good written/verbal communication skills Evidence of managing / supervising others / teams Evidence of leading / involvement in service development / improvement projects
Experience
Essential
- Experience in secondary care - experience of hospital pharmacy
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge/ Experience in mental health pharmacy across any setting
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
