Advanced Specialist Pharmacist - Home Treatment Team (HTT)
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Guildford, GU2 7LX
Salary
£59,798 to £67,020
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
20 September 2026
16 days left
Job description
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Advanced Specialist Pharmacist to join our innovative Home Treatment Teams (HTTs). This exciting role prov...
The Advanced Specialist Pharmacist provides embedded, expert clinical pharmacy input within the Home Treatment Team (HTT), supporting safe and effective medicines management for patients experiencing acute mental health crises who are being treated in the community.
The post holder will lead on medicines reconciliation, support patient adherence, provide specialist input for high-risk medicines, and manage complex pharmaceutical care plans, working as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team to reduce medication-related harm and support safe transitions of care. The post-holder will work across two HTT's. The successful candidate will be an organised, flexible individual with excellent communication and interpersonal skills and an ability to work on their own initiative to:
- Lead and deliver specialist clinical pharmacy services
- Practice as an independent prescriber or work towards this role
- Work collaboratively towards the goals and objectives of the HTTs and Pharmacy services.
Please read the Job Description for further information about the duties and responsibilities of this role.
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.
We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.
Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.
Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.
Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.
We look forward to receiving your application!
Experience
Essential
- Significant post-registration experience of mental health, community and hospital pharmacy
- Medicines optimisation in mental health services
- Managing patients prescribed high-risk medicines including clozapine and lithium
- Multidisciplinary mental health team working and making clinically appropriate interventions
- Audit, quality improvement and service development
- Leadership, supervision or professional support of other staff
- Provision of information to patients and carers
- Experienced in conducting medication reviews, making clinical prescribing recommendations and/or independent prescribing.
Desirable
- Working within a Home Treatment Team, crisis, or community mental health setting
Qualifications and Professional Registration
Essential
- Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Degree in Pharmacy (MPharm or equivalent qualification)
- Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy (or equivalent experience)
- Postgraduate Certificate in Psychiatric Therapeutics (essential or should be willing to complete within 2 years of joining Trust or equivalent qualification)
- Independent pharmacist prescriber (essential or willingness to obtain within an agreed timeframe)
Desirable
- Member of Royal College of Pharmacy
- Member of College of Mental Health Pharmacy
How to apply
Applications are handled entirely by the employer on the original advert. We do not collect CVs, supporting statements or application data.
Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
3 September 2026
Last checked
4 September 2026
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