Clinical Lead Pharmacist for Forensic Directorate | East London NHS Foundation Trust

Are you an enthusiastic, motivated andcommitted pharmacist? If so we would like youto join our mental health pharmacy team!

You will need to have the skills to be able to work within the wider multi-disciplinary teamof nurses and doctors and other allied healthcare professionals and managers. You will want to develop and improve the reliability and quality of our clinical pharmacy service. You will need to have specific experience working with pharmacy teams and patients within the mental health setting.Youwill want to reach targets set by the Trust and by the pharmacy service. Youmustbe self- motivated and able to motivate others.

Our dynamic and creative ELFT pharmacy team provides pharmacy services to a wide range of community and inpatient service users in Luton and Bedforshire, City and Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets. This includes children and young people to adults of working age, older adults, and forensic patients.

1. To support and coordinate a comprehensive clinical pharmacy and medicines management service to the City and Hackney and forensic directorates.

2. To ensure the provision of a high quality, responsive and patient centred pharmacy service to all patients within the directorate by implementing and monitoring the Trust’s clinical pharmacy standards.

3. To attend directorate management meetings including Safety and inpatient management meetings

4. To represent the Directorate at Trust-wide meetings

5. To manage audit and quality improvement projects for the City and Hackney and forensic service pharmacy alongside the lead pharmacist

6. To support the clinical pharmacists and medicines management technicians in their delivery of the clinical service.

7. To attend regional clinical pharmacy network groups and network and feedback with initiatives.

8. To ensure the effective day to day management of the Trust Medicines Information service. (this service is currently under review)

9. To attend and contribute to the Trust Senior Pharmacy Managers meetings.

10. To attend and contribute to the Trusts medicines committee

11. To contribute to ELFT Independent Prescribing and Education & Training strategy

12. To deputize for the Lead Pharmacist in his or her absence

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve.

Our values are

We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

The job description has been reviewed to provide a greater narrative around the different services involved.

For further information concerning this advert, please feel free to contact s.fontelo@nhs.net

This advert closes on Sunday 8 Nov 2026