Bank Senior Clinical Pharmacist Mental Health
NHS Jobs Ashton-under-Lyne
To act as the specialist mental health pharmacist for the clinical pharmacy service to the allocated area including mental health wards, departments and home treatment teams. To conduct clinical pharmacy visits to the allocated PCFT area. To review prescriptions to ensure safe and effective prescribing and appropriate to the individual patients and to recommend the monitoring of mental and physical health, as necessary.
To attend multi-disciplinary team meetings to advise on matters relating to choice and use of medicines and carry out any necessary preparatory work to maximise pharmaceutical input. To prepare drug history reports for patients detailing positive, negative and adverse responses to past treatment and making recommendations for future treatment strategies.
To act as an expert source of pharmaceutical advice for health and social care staff, patients and carers and provide a clinical pharmaceutical service when medical information is conflicting To answer queries about medication from other healthcare professionals using critical appraisal skills so that the information provided is evidence based.
To ensure that the medication provided to the mental health wards and units are stored appropriately to main quality and potency. To ensure that any concerns in prescribing practice are highlighted to the South network lead pharmacist so that appropriate action can be taken.
To provide advice to medical, nursing and other healthcare professionals on the actions and properties of drugs and on their safe and effective use, ensuring an evidence-based approach. To handle urgent clinical queries and prioritise tasks according to the level of urgency.
To monitor ward drug usage. To promote economical drug usage. To participate in and oversee the development of clinical audit both within the pharmaceutical service and as part of multi-disciplinary audit. To ensure that medication error reports are reported via the Ulysses Risk Management System.
To attend multi-disciplinary team meetings to advise on matters relating to choice and use of medicines and carry out any necessary preparatory work to maximise pharmaceutical input. To prepare drug history reports for patients detailing positive, negative and adverse responses to past treatment and making recommendations for future treatment strategies.
To act as an expert source of pharmaceutical advice for health and social care staff, patients and carers and provide a clinical pharmaceutical service when medical information is conflicting To answer queries about medication from other healthcare professionals using critical appraisal skills so that the information provided is evidence based.
To ensure that the medication provided to the mental health wards and units are stored appropriately to main quality and potency. To ensure that any concerns in prescribing practice are highlighted to the South network lead pharmacist so that appropriate action can be taken.
To provide advice to medical, nursing and other healthcare professionals on the actions and properties of drugs and on their safe and effective use, ensuring an evidence-based approach. To handle urgent clinical queries and prioritise tasks according to the level of urgency.
To monitor ward drug usage. To promote economical drug usage. To participate in and oversee the development of clinical audit both within the pharmaceutical service and as part of multi-disciplinary audit. To ensure that medication error reports are reported via the Ulysses Risk Management System.
To ensure that any trends in relation to medication errors are brought to the attention of the network lead pharmacist and support the role of the medication safety officer To ensure that any information required by staff working within the mental health wards and units on medicines is provided and that the resources are available to provide the information.
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