Job summary
Are you looking to develop your leadership and clinical skills in a specialist area?

Are you passionate about mental health and providing medicines optimisation for patients with mental health conditions?

We are seeking a confident, experienced, enthusiastic and motivated pharmacist who is passionate about improving patient care to join our pharmacy team.

The successful applicant will work with the clinical pharmacy team based at the Billing Road site, Northampton and support the team to further develop the clinical pharmacy service to the forensic services.

We are committed to developing our staff and there will be an opportunity to undertake the Non-Medical Prescribing qualification (if you are not already a prescriber) as well as developing your leadership knowledge and skills.

Whilst this role is advertised as full time hours we welcome applications for part time and flexible working.

Main duties of the job
As an advanced pharmacist for our forensic services based on Billing Road, Northampton the postholder will direct, lead and deliver clinical pharmacy to patients primarily within William Wake and Fitzroy House and other Trust buildings on the site.

You will assist the Chief Pharmacist and Mental Health Clinical Lead Pharmacist to provide comprehensive pharmaceutical care through the promotion of safe, appropriate and clinically effective use of medicines.

You will be responsible for providing medicines management advice within NHFT (including men and young people forensics, Brain Injury, learning disability and autism) as required.

You will help provide education on medicines to other healthcare staff, patients and carers.

You will help train, teach and supervise junior pharmacists, foundation pharmacists, pharmacy undergraduates, pharmacy technicians and pre-registration pharmacy technicians.

You will lead and develop audit and research in relevant clinical areas.

You will help support the development and implementation of medicines related policies, guidelines and protocols within the forensic services pathway.

Post registration experience within mental health is essential.

About us
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

Details
Date posted: 21 August 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8a
Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 270-TH302-CORP
Job locations: Billing Road, Victoria Street, Northampton, NN1 5DG, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Masters pharmacy degree, or equivalent
• Registration with the GPhC
• Evidence of recent continuing personal learning
• Post-graduate qualification e.g. Clinical pharmacy diploma

Desirable

• Independent/supplementary prescriber
• Post-graduate Mental health qualification e.g. Postgraduate certificate/diploma in Psychiatric therapeutics ( Aston)
• Member of the Royal College of Pharmacy

Experience
Essential

• Post registration experience within the NHS/Mental health care settings
• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Experience of planning, implementing, analysing, reporting and changing practice through audit

Desirable

• Experience of developing, reviewing and implementing medicines management policies and procedures
• Experience managing and training staff
• Investigating medication incidents and implementing learning and action plans

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).

Employer details
Employer name: Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust
Address: Billing Road, Victoria Street, Northampton, NN1 5DG, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.nhft.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Lead Pharmacist - Digital and Practice Development, Jordan Lea, Jordan.Lea@nhft.nhs.uk, 07783848211

Supporting documents
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