Advanced Specialist Pharmacist - Lead for Research and Clinical Trials

If you have a passion for mental health and research, this is the role for you. SABP strives to improve the mental health and wellbeing of the people who use our services and to always provide the best evidenced based care that we can. We aim to create a vibrant, engaged, improvement focused culture in which we use the best, and most up-to-date evidence to achieve the best outcomes for our service users. Boasting a top tier research and development (R&D) facility at our Two Bridges site in Chertsey, where we focus on research and clinical trials for dementia, psychosis, depression and eating disorders. We have an exciting new role to complement our R&D team for an individual who:

• values the principles of medicines optimisation and improving the care, quality, and experience of those who take part is clinical trials.
• will build up the Pharmacy R&D service to match the potential of our top tier facility
• has excellent clinical, organisational, and communication skills, sound IT skills and the ability to work unsupervised and as part of a team.
• will develop and maintain a close relationship with our Pharmacy Team who are based at Farnham Road Hospital, Guildford. SABP are a multisite Trust, so the role may require some travel between sites.
Main duties of the job Being the first point of contact for research trial sponsors and Clinical Research Organisations. - Leading and facilitating pharmacy aspects or pre-selection and other stages of site visit. - Ensuring clinical trials are compliant with Good Clinical Practice, Good Manufacturing Practice and other statutory standards as well as clinical need. - Assessing feasibility of new trials and being the link person to co-ordinate with the Pharmacy Team as and when needed. - Keeping in touch with local and regional pharmacy research networks.

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. For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.