Advanced Clinical Mental Health Pharmacist

3 weeks ago


Norwich, United Kingdom Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

R OLE SUMMARY

Norfolk and Suffolk are working with Primary Care Networks (PCNs) for the redesign and transformation of primary and community mental health care to develop and deliver a new service paradigm in line with the NHSE community mental health transformation agenda.

The Advanced Clinical Mental Health Pharmacist has a key role in supporting the integration work to implement the transformation by developing and providing medicines optimisation services to people in Norwich.

The Advanced Clinical Mental Health Pharmacist will be positioned as part of a wider Primary Mental Health Service between the Norwich Community Mental Health teams and a cohort of PCNs to provide clinical services directly to patients and service users as well as supporting a system approach to mental health medicines optimisation and management.

This role will also involve working with the NSFT pharmacy teams to educate and support other pharmacists within the wider system.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities

Provide an expert mental health clinical pharmacy service to patients and service users within an geographical area of Norfolk to include:

Identification of appropriate cohorts of patients for medication review within the North Norfolk area including patients on complex medication regimes and possibly unsafe high-risk medication regimes. Support individual patients to reduce medicines associated risk and support structured deprescribing of any medicines that are no longer deemed necessary for individual patients. Undertake independent prescribing as appropriate for individual patients. Participation in multidisciplinary team meetings or case conferences to identify medication problems and provide advice. Conducting medication education sessions for patients and carers, either on a one-to-one or group basis. Interpreting medicines information to provide advice for individual circumstances. Giving prescribing advice to medical staff and non-medical prescribers especially when complex problems arise with medication combinations and doses.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY

** This post attracts a recruitment premium of £3,000. This is a one-off payment with half paid on appointment and half paid after the completion of a satisfactory probation period (6 months). The premium is taxable. Please note that should you leave employment, or choose to move to an alternative post within the Trust that does not attract this recruitment premium, you will be required to reimburse all or some it, as follows: 100% of the value of the premium in the first 12 months; 50% of the value of the premium in the period 12 months to 2 years following appointment. **

Benefits included with this role are:

NHS pension a comprehensive in house & external training programmes career progression starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays) staff physio service NHS discounts and many more. Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registration with GPhC Postgraduate certificate and/or diploma in Psychiatric Pharmacy or other post-graduate clinical pharmacy qualification including mental health modules Independent Prescriber or prepared to complete this qualification upon appointment

Experience

Essential

Mental health clinical pharmacy role

Desirable

Management of staff

Skills

Essential

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with other staff and service users.
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