Clinical Lead Pharmacist for Tower Hamlets | East London NHS Foundation Trust

Overview

Advert for Clinical Lead Pharmacist Band 8a.

Are you an enthusiastic, motivated and committed pharmacist? If so we would like you to join our mental health pharmacy team. You will need to have the skills to work within the wider multi-disciplinary team of 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. You will want to reach targets set by the Trust and by the pharmacy service. You must be 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 Bedfordshire, City and Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets. This includes children and young people to adults of working age, older adults, and forensic patients. This is an onsite based role.

Responsibilities

1. To support and coordinate a comprehensive clinical pharmacy and medicines management service to Tower Hamlets.
2. To ensure the provision of a high quality, responsive and patient centered pharmacy service to all patients within the directorate by implementing and monitoring the Trust’s clinical pharmacy standards.
3. To attend Tower Hamlets management meetings including clinical risk and inpatient management meeting.
4. To represent the Tower Hamlets Directorate at Trust-wide meetings.
5. To manage audit and quality improvement projects for the Tower Hamlets 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 deputise for the Lead Pharmacist in his or her absence.
12. To undertake operational work.
13. To provide an up-to-date medicines information service for Tower Hamlets Mental Health units.

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.

For information in relation to this advert please feel free to contact Bhavin Karania at bhavin.karania1@nhs.net.

This advert closes on Sunday 5 Apr 2026.

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