Advanced Specialist Mental Health Pharmacist in Reading inReading PUBLISHED FRI 7 MAR 2025 Jump to job information section

Are you a motivated Pharmacist with mental health experience wanting to progress your career?

Do you want to gain further qualifications in an 'Outstanding' Trust that prioritises staff wellbeing and professional development?

Join our Pharmacy team and enjoy a varied, interesting role delivering specialised services to mental health crisis teams and mental health inpatient wards.

Based at Prospect Park Hospital in Reading, you'll work with the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) for 2 days and with the Mental Health Inpatient wards for 3 days. We welcome full time applications or a part time application to cover either or both areas.

We are pleased to offer this role at Band 8a and as a development pathway for a Band 7 Pharmacist to progress into an 8a role. We'll offer you support and funding to obtain your postgraduate psychiatric pharmacy diploma and Independent Prescriber qualification.

As a specialist psychiatric clinical pharmacist, you'll deliver a high standard of clinical pharmaceutical care and be a key member of the multidisciplinary teams providing expertise in medicines related issues. The post holder will support the medicines optimisation agenda within own area of specialty.

You'd work our usual service hours of 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday, with participation in our team emergency duty rota

Applications for this role will be reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as vacancies may close early.

• To provide high quality, specialist clinical pharmacy service to the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) and mental health inpatient wards to ensure the safe, clinically effective and cost-efficient use of drugs

• To participate in MDT meetings to provide expert medicines advice and support the wider medicines optimisation agenda

• To work closely with other community-based and inpatient clinical pharmacists to ensure seamless pharmaceutical care is provided throughout each patient's journey

• To provide education and training to healthcare professionals, service users and carers

• To provide clinical pharmacy advice on the management of patients with mental illness in order to maximise benefit and minimise risk in relation to medicines

• To be responsible for updating and reviewing relevant SOPs, guidelines, PGDs and ePACT analysis

About us

The must haves for this role:

• Pharmacy Honours degree (BPharm or MPharm)
• Clinical or psychiatric postgraduate certificate (Band 7) or Clinical or psychiatric (preferred), postgraduate diploma (for Band 8a)
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Experience in mental health pharmacy (hospital or community mental health)

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.

We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community. Our commitment to inclusion is reflected in our accreditations: Race Equality Matters Silver Trailblazer, Neurodiversity in Business Corporate Member, Disability Confident Leader, Carer Confident Level 2, and the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award. Reasonable adjustments will be provided to candidates as needed.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please dont hesitate to call: Dr Elizabeth Francis on or email: wholl be delighted to help.Please note, if we receive a high number of applications, we may close this role earlier than the advertised closing date, so please submit your application as soon as possible.