Senior Clinical Pharmacist Mental Health Access and Living Well - Stockport

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Job overview

There is no dispensary or out of hours commitment providing the perfect opportunity for you to develop your clinical skills and broaden your mental health knowledge and experience.

Main duties of the job

To provide, manage, organise and develop the clinical pharmacy service to the Living Well and Access Teams across your borough.

To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate specialist clinical mental health pharmacy services in the Living Well Team.

To provide expert pharmaceutical advice and liaison to the Living Well Team, GPs, practice pharmacists, other healthcare professionals (HCPs), patients, and carers.

To lead on the non-medical prescribing pathway and act as an independent prescriber of medication, ensuring that drug therapy is evidence based, safe, cost effective and appropriate to the individual patient.

To provide training to the Living Well Team, GPs and other HCPs within Primary Care around the use of psychotropic medicines.

To ensure that pharmacy services work within agreed guidelines to ensure effective medicines management

To provide cover for other pharmacists providing a service to and employed by Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, as requested.

Working for our organisation

The role is entirely clinical with no dispensary, out of hours or on call commitment

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will provide, manage, organise and develop the clinical pharmacy service to the Living Well and Access Teams across Stockport; the main responsibilities are covered in the job description

Person specification

essential

• Current member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Masters degree in Pharmacy (or pre-2000 equivalent)
• Qualified Independent Prescriber
• Postgraduate qualification or equivalent experience

• developing policies and strategies

essential and desireable

• Experience of delivering training
• Experience in a number of areas of psychiatric pharmacy practice
• Relevant post graduate qualification, i.e. Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice
• undertaken audits
• Experience in initiating, leading and implementing change and new developments
• Experience of developing guidelines or protocols

• Experience of people management

person specfication

• Current member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Masters degree in Pharmacy (or pre-2000 equivalent)
• Relevant post graduate qualification, i.e. Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice or equivalent experience
• Experience in a number of areas of psychiatric pharmacy practice
• Experience in initiating, leading and implementing change and new developments
• Qualified prescriber

• developing policies and strategies
• CMHP credentialed

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Sponsorship - We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible role and requirements on the government website.

What happens after your application has been received?

You will be informed about the progress of your application following shortlisting via email. Only applicants who clearly demonstrate the criteria listed in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. Interview invites will be sent out via email.

What happens if I am offered the position after interview?

The hiring manager will make contact with you to verbally offer you the position. The hiring manager will then inform Recruitment of the decision and provide relevant paperwork. You will be sent a formal conditional offer via email.

What pre-employment checks will I need to complete?

By conducting pre-employment checks, the recruitment team will verify that you meet the pre-conditions of the role you have been offered. Pre-employment checks will be carried out according to NHS Employment Check Standards. The checks are:

• Identity verification
• Right to work check
• Disclosure and barring service (DBS)/Criminal record check (dependent on role)
• Professional registration and/or qualification check
• Occupational health assessment
• Employment history and reference validation

All applicants external to NHS will be required to provide HMRC employment history to cover the most recent three years. This information will used to validate employment history and references as part of pre-employment checks.

If you are offer a position with is and you require sponsorship to support your right to work, we will review your eligibility in line with government guidance. If the role you have been offer is not eligible for sponsorship, and you are not able to evidence your right to work, your conditional offer could be withdrawn.

What happens when pre-employment checks are complete?

Recruitment will liaise with you and the hiring manager to arrange a start date for your new position. You will then be booked on to a Trust Welcome Session and be sent your Pennine Care NHS Terms and Conditions.

• We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and recognise the importance of ensuring our diverse service user population is reflected within our workforce. Unfortunately, we know that, at present, there is underrepresentation of our communities in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from diverse communities to help us grow, learn, be better and consider brilliant innovation diverse people bring.
• If you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme, you will be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria on the person specification for the post.
• If you require reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process please phone us on 0161 716 3181 at the earliest opportunity. We will support you to complete your application.
• Unfortunately we are not able to guarantee the transfer of lease cars, or cover the costs of early termination charges.
• We have a strict policy on unsolicited contact from recruitment agencies. Please do not contact our hiring managers directly.

We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. To ensure you application is considered, please submit at the earliest opportunity.