Job summary
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated pharmacist to undertake a key clinical role within our community mental health and assertive outreach teams.

Our pharmacists play an integral role as members of the multi-disciplinary team and this post will suit a pharmacist wishing to join an inclusive and friendly working environment to improve medicines optimisation for our patients.

The ideal candidate will have a commitment to teamwork, a sense of accountability, plus an ability to work under pressure.

We will provide the necessary support to ensure your development within your role.

The pharmacy team has various bases across the county and the successful candidate will be based at one of them with some flexibility for hybrid working, if agreed. It is essential to be able to travel to various sites across the Trust.

Main duties of the job
The Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Community Mental Health and Assertive Outreach will work within community mental health teams and join our new assertive outreach team to help shape a service that makes a real difference for adults with severe and enduring mental health needs.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with individuals who find it difficult to engage with traditional services, often facing challenges such as substance misuse, homelessness, or social isolation.

You will be part of a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team, providing flexible, and person-centred support to patients and service users as well as supporting a system approach to mental health medicines optimisation and management.

About us
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Details
Date posted: 16 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8a
Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 310-CORP-7987731
Job locations: Elizabeth House Fulbourn Hospital, Cambridge, CB21 5EF, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

• Identification of appropriate cohorts of patients for medication review including patients on complex medication regimes and possibly unsafe high-risk medication regimes.
• Support individual patients to reduce medicines associated risk and support structured deprescribing of any medicines that are no longer deemed necessary for individual patients.
• Undertake independent prescribing as appropriate for individual patients.
• Participation in multidisciplinary team meetings or case conferences to identify medication problems and provide advice.
• Conducting medication education sessions for patients and carers, either on a one-to-one or group basis.
• Interpreting medicines information to provide advice for individual circumstances.
• Giving prescribing advice to medical staff and non-medical prescribers especially when complex problems arise with medication combinations and doses.
• Advising on medicines risk management issues such as the reduction of medication incidents and ensuring compliance with medicines legislation.
• Giving medicines optimisation and management advice to medical, nursing and other staff, and medicines information to all members of staff.
• Undertaking teaching sessions on medication and related medication management issues for other professionals.

Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential

• Registration with GPhC.
• Post-graduate clinical pharmacy qualification or equivalent experience

Desirable

• Independent Prescriber or working towards an independent prescribing qualification
• Member of, or working towards, membership of the College of Mental Health Pharmacy

Experience
Essential

• Postgraduate employment as a pharmacist
• Experience in two or more of mental health, clinical pharmacy role, research, clinical trials and/or audit, medicines protocol/guideline development and implementation

Desirable

• Management of staff
• Supervisory Role

Skills & Abilities
Essential

• Able to work independently and prioritise work appropriately
• Good written communication skills
• Computer literate
• Experience of multidisciplinary team working
• Decision making skills

Desirable

• Effective project management skills

Knowledge & Understanding
Essential

• Evidence of expert knowledge relating to clinical pharmacy, medication safety and antimicrobial stewardship
• Understanding of medicines and pharmacy legislation
• Up to date knowledge of NHS and other relevant policies in relation to medicines safety

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).