Senior Mental Health Pharmacist | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Band: 8a
Posts available: 22.5 hours over 3-4 days – Fixed Term 12 month contract
Location: The Mount, Whalley Road, Accrington, BB5 5AD
Are you a highly motivated and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist with a keen interest and previous experience in mental health?
An great opportunity has arisen due to maternity leave. We have an exciting vacancy for a senior clinical pharmacist post in The Community Mental Health Team located at The Mount in Accrington. This is a well established MH team within the Pennine Locality.
The team is based on ‘safety by design’ to ensure that it can provide high quality care. The ethos of the team is to provide therapeutic care which is empowering, person-centred and needs led, and focuses on promoting recovery and independence.
We are looking to recruit an experienced mental health pharmacist to join our friendly, innovative and supportive clinical pharmacy team on a fixed term 12 month contract.
As the successful candidate you will be responsible for the delivery of a high quality, pro-active and patient focused clinical pharmacy service to the community mental health team. Key components of the role include:
Clinical review of prescriptions and patient-orientated medication reviews
Provision of specialist pharmaceutical advice to multi-disciplinary teams
Involvement of patients in decisions about their medicines to support adherence and improve outcomes
Potential to utilise non-medical prescribing skills within the role outline
Opportunity to influence the development of services to improve patient care through service redesign
Participation in clinical audit and service evaluation
Supervision of junior pharmacy staff
Contribution to the training and development of junior pharmacy team members and other members of the multi-disciplinary team
Participation in the clinical supervision programme
Input to the development of policies and procedures and treatment guidelines
Contribute to initiatives to improve medicines safety
You will have current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
It is also desirable, however not essential that you have a postgraduate pharmacy qualification or equivalent experience, and post registration experience in mental health.
The post does not require weekend working or an on-call commitment.
We want to recruit people to the service who share our values and are confident in their ability to contribute to the demonstrated effectiveness and acceptability of our service.
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks.We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 1 Oct 2024