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Job overview

Are you looking for the opportunity to develop your skills in a forward thinking and innovative pharmacy team?

Are you interested in working with an outstanding Trust to develop and deliver patient cantered care in mental health?

We invite you to consider joining our dynamic and enthusiastic team and be actively involved in the implementation of our most ambitious pharmacy strategy yet.

You will provide a clinical pharmacy service within in our structured rotational programme and be supported to further develop your skills and knowledge by undertaking postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualifications. There is the option to enrol on the Newly Qualified Pharmacist Pathway as well as the opportunity to progress to the independent prescribing qualification.

We are open to applications from both newly qualifying pharmacists, who will be registering this summer and those who are already qualified and would like to consider a change in sector.

We welcome flexible working applications (e.g., school hours, part time, job share)

Here’s what our staff say about working in the team:

“It’s a privilege to help people make the changes they want to see in their lives. As a pharmacist I advocate for my patients, ensuring that they are involved in decisions about their medicines” (Current clinical Pharmacist).

Main duties of the job

As the Clinical Pharmacist, you will be expected to:

• Provide a clinical pharmacy service to a variety of mental health units including acute and older people, child and adolescent, learning disabilities, and forensic wards.
• Lead and implement projects that support the Trust Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation Strategy. 
• Be flexible, have excellent communication skills (written and verbal), strong clinical and organisational skills, enjoy working as part of a multidisciplinary team and be able to show compassion and respect for people with mental health problems.
• Current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.

In return, at Hertfordshire Partnership Trust (HPFT) we can offer you:

• have excellent opportunity for progression and development
• 5% on top of basic salary high-cost allowance supplement (subject to a maximum £2,011 per annum pro rata) depending on location
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
• One of the UK's best pension schemes
• Special leave for family and personal reasons
• NHS Car Lease Scheme (for substantive staff)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• We are receptive to supporting flexible working patterns

Working for our organisation

The HPFT pharmacy team recruitment promise

• The pharmacy team embraces and champions, equality, diversity and inclusivity. 
• We commit to consider all potential work life balance options for example part time, job share or flexible hours.
• We can offer fully paid training opportunities such as Postgraduate Accreditations and Diplomas, student training programmes and advanced leadership courses.
• We celebrate and welcome applicants from other pharmacy sectors and those returning to practice.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is a top-tier NHS trust striving for excellence. As one of five mental health trusts rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, our goal is to lead in mental health and specialist learning disability services nationwide.

Our 3500-strong staff provides health and social care for 400,000 individuals across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk. We offer community and inpatient services, including nationally commissioned specialist care like Tier 4 services for children, perinatal services, and secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!