Specialist Mental Health Pharmacist

3 weeks ago

Luton Bedfordshire, United Kingdom East London NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Are you anenthusiastic, motivated andcommitted pharmacist and have a passion for developing your skills and experience within a mental health setting.

If so, we would like you to join our Mental Health pharmacy team as a Specialist Mental Health Pharmacist. You will provide Pharmacy and Medicines management services to all Inpatient Mental health and Specialist services. We are looking for an individual who is driven, proactive and has a solid foundation of working in a secondary care setting.

You will also need to have the skills to be able to work effectively 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 and partake in Quality Improvement projects.

It is imperative that the successful candidate is able to show compassion and respect for people with mental health illness and be driven to improve their care through the safe and effective use of medicines.

* The successful post holder will be given the opportunity to further develop their competence through Post Graduate Certificate/Diplomas and Non medical Prescribing where appropriate*

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be expected to work with the Clinical Lead/Lead Pharmacist to develop clinical pharmacy services within the Luton and Bedfordshire directorates. They will be responsible for implementing and monitoring the Trust's clinical pharmacy standards as well as ensuring the clinical service is of high quality and patient-focused. They will identify gaps and problem areas in the service and will use Quality Improvement methodology to make positive changes. The postholder will be required to work closely with the clinical lead ensuring that stock control of medicines on the wards is accurate and that cost effective measures are taken to improve medicine use across the inpatient wards. The post holder will also be expected to manage clozapine supply for inpatient and service users in the community.

About us

East London Foundation Trust (ELFT), Our dynamic and creative Trust pharmacy team provides pharmacy services to a wide range of community and inpatient service users in Newham, Luton & Bedfordshire, City & Hackney and Tower Hamlets. These include children and young people to adults of working age, older adults, perinatal, learning disabilities, community health services and forensic patients. We provide a broad range of clinical pharmacy services to our inpatient wards and are supported by trained medicines management technicians.

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.

Job description

Job responsibilities

In this post, you will join a small team of Pharmacists and Medicines Management Technicians, working dynamically with the wider pharmacy team to provide a medicine service to a wide range of community and inpatient service users in Luton and Bedfordshire. There will be an expectation to work closely with the lead pharmacist in identifying gaps in service delivery alongside developing medicine optimisation and deprescribing iniatives.

Please for further information kindly refer to the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person Specification

Education/ Qualification/ Training

Essential


  • oVocational Master's Degree in Pharmacy (or equivalent)
  • o+ Pre-registration training
  • o+ Post registration training relevant to hospital pharmacy
  • oMember of the General Pharmaceutical Council and/or Royal Pharmaceutical Society
  • oExperience in clinical pharmacy in a mental health setting

Desirable


  • oExperience in clinical pharmacy of working with older people
  • oPsychiatry qualification (or willing to work towards this)
  • oWorking towards higher Degree/Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy

Experience

Essential


  • oDemonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate medicine related information to mental health patients, carers and clinical staff
  • oPrevious evaluated experience of mentorship and training skills
  • oTo have undertaken clinical audit
  • oPrevious experience in providing clinical mental health services.

Desirable


  • oTraining and education
  • oStaff management experience
  • oMonitoring and advising on drug expenditure

Knowledge and Skills

Essential


  • oClinical and critical appraisal skills
  • oThe ability to identify and prioritise clinical work load
  • oCommunicates with medical, nursing and pharmacy staff in clear precise and appropriate manner.
  • oTo have an awareness of national and local priorities
  • oThe ability to identify and manage risks
  • oAbility to evaluate own work
  • oEnhances the quality of patient care
  • oDemonstrates awareness of the clinical governance agenda
  • oTeaching and presentation skills
  • oDemonstrates ability to meets set targets
  • oDemonstrate ability to organise self in order to ensure efficient use of time.
  • oMeets expected levels of practice as defined by others
  • oSelf-motivated
  • oThe ability and willingness to deputise for senior staff while recognising limitations of experience and ability
  • oTakes responsibilities for own actions

Desirable


  • oAble to influence junior medical staff
  • oUnderstanding of local trust priorities
  • oEvidence of writing procedures, guidelines or protocols.

Employer details

Employer name

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Pharmacy Department

Calnwood Court

Luton

LU4 0LU

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