Rotational Clinical Pharmacist

Overview

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We welcome applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people, reservists and ex-armed forces personnel, and we encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

It is an exciting time to join our team. Our services have been restructured to support an enhanced service model under a senior leadership team fully committed to delivering outstanding services and investing in the development of its workforce. This role offers opportunities to rotate across intermediate care physical health wards, inpatient mental health, secure and learning disabilities services.

• Deliver a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to designated wards, providing specialist information and advice to all members of the multidisciplinary team to maximise patient pharmaceutical care.
• Be reliable, willing to learn, able to work on your own initiative, and flexible to support the wider pharmacy team.
• Work on a rotational basis across various Mersey Care sites; the main departmental base is Maghull Health Park and regular travel is required.
• Spend at least one session per week in the Maghull dispensary to develop and maintain core competencies.
• Support the out-of-hours medicines advice service with a maximum rota frequency of 1 in 12, including weekend work in the dispensary from 9:30am to 1:30pm.
• Be actively involved in providing a seven-day medicines management service to Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.
• Participate in the dispensary and on-call rota to ensure medicines are supplied accurately and timely.
• Work flexibly in line with hours of operation.
• Refer to the full job description and person specification for details.

• We are looking for enthusiastic and highly motivated pharmacists with excellent communication, organisational, and team-working skills to deliver clinical pharmacy services alongside multidisciplinary teams.
• Previous hospital pharmacy or mental health experience is not essential; induction and training will be provided. We welcome applications from newly registered pharmacists keen to work in secondary care, or more experienced pharmacists seeking a new challenge or wishing to gain experience in mental and physical health.
• To be eligible for certain roles, DBS checks may be required, and applicants may be asked to enrol in the DBS Update Service where applicable.

• Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
• All correspondence will come from apps.trac.jobs, not NHS Jobs. We reserve the right to close vacancies once a shortlist is formed or a minimum number of applications is reached.
• We encourage applicants to review the trust’s Guaranteed Interview Scheme for Disability: applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria may request consideration under this scheme.
• If you require reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process, please email the provided contact to arrange support.
• New entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
• The Trust expects employees requiring an enhanced DBS for their role and working with Children & Young People services to subscribe to the DBS Update Service (fee applies).
• Applicants should assess sponsorship likelihood via  guidance.
• We support AI usage in applications only if disclosed on the application form.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving over 1.4 million people across the region. We offer specialist inpatient and community services, including high-security mental health facilities, and are committed to delivering “perfect care” that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient. We support staff development through supervision and opportunities for personal and professional growth.