Advanced Clinical Pharmacist

1 month ago


Peterborough, Peterborough, United Kingdom Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust Full time

About the Role

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated Advanced Clinical Pharmacist to join our pharmacy team at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust. As a key member of our multidisciplinary team, you will play a vital role in ensuring medicines are prescribed and used in a safe and cost-effective manner for the benefit of our patients.

The successful candidate will have a commitment to teamwork, a sense of accountability, and the ability to work under pressure. You will be expected to influence prescribing and integrate pharmacy into the wider multidisciplinary team.

Main Responsibilities

  • Participate in multidisciplinary team meetings to identify medication problems and provide advice.
  • Offer prescribing advice to medical staff and non-medical prescribers, particularly when complex problems arise with medication combinations and doses.
  • Conduct medication education sessions for service users and carers, either on a one-to-one or group basis.
  • Review medication charts on wards and in the pharmacy to ensure their accuracy and appropriateness.
  • Undertake dispensing accuracy checking within the pharmacy when necessary.
  • Interpret medicines information to provide advice for individual service user circumstances.
  • Advise on medicines risk management issues, such as the reduction of medication incidents and ensuring compliance with medicines legislation.
  • Liaise with GPs and community pharmacists, and be involved in discharge planning to ensure community medication needs of service users are fulfilled.
  • Contribute to aspects of the specialist medicine provision system operated by CPFT for clozapine.
  • Support the clinical pharmacy service clinical input to community health services, including hospital settings where necessary.

Person Specification

Essential

  • Registration with GPhC.
  • Postgraduate certificate and/or diploma in Psychiatric Pharmacy.
  • Other post-graduate clinical pharmacy qualification.

Desirable

  • Member of, or working towards, membership of the College of Mental Health Pharmacy.

Experience

Essential

  • Extensive years postgraduate employment as a pharmacist.
  • Experience in hospital pharmacy, mental health, clinical pharmacy role, research, clinical trials, and/or audit, medicines protocol/guideline development and implementation, supervisory role.

Desirable

  • Management of staff.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with other staff and service users.
  • Good time management.
  • Decision-making skills.
  • Networking.
  • Able to work independently and prioritize work appropriately.

Desirable

  • Effective project management.
  • Networking.

Knowledge and Understanding

Essential

  • Evidence of expert knowledge relating to clinical pharmacy issues in psychiatry.
  • Specialist knowledge of the evidence base relating to the prescribing of psychotropic medication.
  • Up-to-date knowledge of NHS and other relevant policies.


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