Job Description

We are looking for an enthusiastic patient-focussed clinical pharmacist looking to develop their clinical knowledge and skills working into our inpatient areas and providing clinical pharmacist support to our community treatment teams across a range of mental health specialities.



Applicants should have excellent communication and team working skills and self-motivation to contribute to the development and delivery of the pharmacy service. We welcome applications from pharmacist colleagues working in all sectors of the profession. Prior working experience in mental health is not essential, as a comprehensive programme of education, training and clinical supervision will be provided. We will support you to provide high quality services to patients and healthcare professionals.



Across our Trust, pharmacy staff are fully integrated into and regarded as valued members of the multi-disciplinary team.

Our clinical pharmacy services include:

Medicines reconciliation and review on admission and discharge Supporting patients and carers with the management of their medicines Optimising medicines, taking a holistic view of both mental and physical healthcare needs Physical health and wellbeing advice Discharge planning and liaison with primary care To personally work and encourage others to work within standards, legislation and guidelines in keeping with professional registration requirements

To act as a role model for other staff and to demonstrate personal conduct in a manner in keeping with being a registered professional.



We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.



The North East of England and Cumbria boasts some of Britain's most beautiful scenery, coastline and national parks. It offers affordable house prices, good connectivity and train links with some major cities. It can offer a fantastic quality of life and working for our Trust promotes a great work life balance. We have bases in many beautiful places which can give our staff the opportunity to explore some of these surrounding areas.



As a department, we are committed to developing and supporting our staff to achieve the maximum they can from their career, whilst delivering outstanding patient centred care.



To find out more about our department and see what our team has to say you can watch our YouTube video https://youtu.be/JgVFF1jMsuY



For further information about our department please see our Pharmacy Brochure. Supporting your pharmacy and medicines optimisation journey - CNTW



Please find attached job description for full details.

Advertising date :

2 nd October 2025

Closing date :

16 th October 2025



We welcome your application.