Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - ADHD
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Job overview
Are you a skilled and experienced pharmacist ready to take to take on a new challenge? If you share our values, come and join our dynamic and innovative community mental health teams delivering outstanding person-centred clinical pharmacy services.
We are excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for an experienced advanced clinical pharmacist independent prescriber to support our Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) service for adults in Halton, Knowsley and Sefton.
It’s a great time to join us and help shape our ADHD service which has recently undergone transformation to develop a standardised, safe and sustainable model of care.
You will be based within a multidisciplinary community mental health team working closely with specialist clinicians to provide clinical assessment, diagnosis and evidence-based treatment interventions that make a real difference for people with ADHD.
We are looking for a proactive, enthusiastic and highly self-motivated pharmacist with excellent leadership and communication skills, who is able to work autonomously and build professional relationships with service users and team members across the pathways of care.
As a valued member of the team, you will be supported to develop your career and enhance your clinical practice and leadership skills. You will benefit from Medicines Management professional support via a well-structured system of regular supervision, education sessions and CPD opportunities.
Shortlisting planned for: 24 March 2025Interviews planned for: Week commencing 31 March 2025
Main duties of the job
You will lead, develop and deliver a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to the ADHD team, providing specialist medication information and advice to services users, carers and the multi-disciplinary team, to maximise pharmaceutical care and treatment outcomes for patients.
An integral part of the ADHD service, you will use your medicines expertise to provide evidence-based assessment, titration, and structured medication reviews, ensuring optimised, safe and appropriate use of medicines.
As a senior pharmacist, you will provide specialist medicines advice to the ADHD service and contribute to direct patient care. You will also support with training and supervision of other healthcare professionals.
The role will involve travel across services.
There are no current requirements to work Bank Holidays or weekends and there is no dispensary or on-call commitment.
We will consider requests for flexible working which also meet the needs of the team
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together.We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To participate in the delivery of a highly specialist clinical pharmacy service that meets General Pharmaceutical Council standards and relevant legislation.
To support the development and implementation of evidence-based pathways, audits, policies, procedures, treatment protocols and guidelines that promote patient safety and reduce the risk of harm from medications.
To undertake clinics with direct patient contact, including assessment and prescribing, as appropriate
To perform medication reviews and clinically check prescriptions, ensuring the appropriate, safe and legal supply of medicines, in line with national and local guidelines.
To attend and be actively involved in multi-disciplinary team meetings.
To develop effective partnerships with other professions as part of a multi-disciplinary approach to medicines optimisation.
To log near misses and incidents involving medication using the trust’s incident reporting systems, and support review and learning where required as follow up
To record clinical interventions, key performance indicators and pharmaceutical care plans, in line with departmental procedures.
To report medication incidents including near misses to promote medicines safety and reduce medication harm.
To participate in pharmacist clinical supervision and deliver medication education sessions for healthcare professionals and service users
Refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for full details.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Master of Pharmacy degree, or equivalent qualification
- Postgraduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy, or equivalent experience
- Independent prescriber qualification, or willingness to work towards
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Postgraduate qualification in Psychiatric Therapeutics/Clinical Pharmacy, or willingness to work towards
- Membership of the College of Mental Health Pharmacy (CMHP)
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- Leadership or management qualification/training
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of working within pharmaceutical services
- Experience of working within an NHS organisation
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
- Experience of undertaking audit within pharmaceutical services
- Experience of providing supervision
- Experience of providing education regarding medicines
- Understanding of the benefits and risks of psychotropic therapy and its place in patient care
- Understanding of how medicines optimisation contributes to high quality patient care
- Clear understanding of relevant legislation and guidance
- Awareness of local area prescribing committee processes
- Understanding and positive regard for the needs and rights of people with mental health problems or learning disabilities, and their carers
- Demonstrable evidence of commitment to self development and CPD
- Experience of working in hospital pharmacy
- Experience of working within community mental health services
- Experience of provision of medicines information services
- Experience of line management of staff
- Knowledge of the evidence base relating to the prescribing of psychotropic medicines
- Knowledge of recent and upcoming initiatives within pharmaceutical services
- Experience of working within community pharmacy
Values
Essential criteria- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential criteria- Excellent organisational skills
- Good IT skills
- Excellent communication skills: – written – verbal – listening
- Ability to work both independently and as a team player
- Ability to work flexibly
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to prioritise workload and manage time effectively to meet specified deadlines
- Self-motivated and able to use initiative
- Problem-solving skills
- Report-writing skills
- Ability to analyse data
- Negotiating and influencing skills
- Ability to adapt to changing environments, needs and demands
- Recognition of own limitations and ability to ask for support when necessary
- Professional manner
- Ability to travel between different sites
- Project management skills
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
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