Job summary
Are you anenthusiastic, motivated andcommitted pharmacist and have a passion for developing your skills and experience within a mental health setting.
If so, we would like you to join our Mental Health pharmacy team as a Specialist Mental Health Pharmacist. You will provide Pharmacy and Medicines management services to all Inpatient Mental health and Specialist services. We are looking for an individual who is driven, proactive and has a solid foundation of working in a secondary care setting.
You will also need to have the skills to be able to work effectively within the wider multi-disciplinary team of nurses and doctors and other allied healthcare professionals and managers. You will want to develop and improve the reliability and quality of our clinical pharmacy service and partake in Quality Improvement projects.
It is imperative that the successful candidate is able to show compassion and respect for people with mental health illness and be driven to improve their care through the safe and effective use of medicines.
*The successful post holder will be given the opportunity to further develop their competence through Post Graduate Certificate/Diplomas and Non medical Prescribing where appropriate*
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected to work with the Clinical Lead/Lead Pharmacist to develop clinical pharmacy services within the Luton and Bedfordshire directorates. They will be responsible for implementing and monitoring the Trust's clinical pharmacy standards as well as ensuring the clinical service is of high quality and patient-focused. They will identify gaps and problem areas in the service and will use Quality Improvement methodology to make positive changes. The postholder will be required to work closely with the clinical lead ensuring that stock control of medicines on the wards is accurate and that cost effective measures are taken to improve medicine use across the inpatient wards. The post holder will also be expected to manage clozapine supply for inpatient and service users in the community.
About us
East London Foundation Trust (ELFT), Our dynamic and creative Trust pharmacy team provides pharmacy services to a wide range of community and inpatient service users in Newham, Luton & Bedfordshire, City & Hackney and Tower Hamlets. These include children and young people to adults of working age, older adults, perinatal, learning disabilities, community health services and forensic patients. We provide a broad range of clinical pharmacy services to our inpatient wards and are supported by trained medicines management technicians.
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
In this post, you will join a small team of Pharmacists and Medicines Management Technicians, working dynamically with the wider pharmacy team to provide a medicine service to a wide range of community and inpatient service users in Luton and Bedfordshire. There will be an expectation to work closely with the lead pharmacist in identifying gaps in service delivery alongside developing medicine optimisation and deprescribing iniatives.
Please for further information kindly refer to the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
1. oVocational Master's Degree in Pharmacy (or equivalent)
2. o+ Pre-registration training
3. o+ Post registration training relevant to hospital pharmacy
4. oMember of the General Pharmaceutical Council and/or Royal Pharmaceutical Society
5. oExperience in clinical pharmacy in a mental health setting
Desirable
6. oExperience in clinical pharmacy of working with older people
7. oPsychiatry qualification (or willing to work towards this)
8. oWorking towards higher Degree/Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
Experience
Essential
9. oDemonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate medicine related information to mental health patients, carers and clinical staff
10. oPrevious evaluated experience of mentorship and training skills
11. oTo have undertaken clinical audit
12. oPrevious experience in providing clinical mental health services.
Desirable
13. oTraining and education
14. oStaff management experience
15. oMonitoring and advising on drug expenditure
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
16. oClinical and critical appraisal skills
17. oThe ability to identify and prioritise clinical work load
18. oCommunicates with medical, nursing and pharmacy staff in clear precise and appropriate manner.
19. oTo have an awareness of national and local priorities
20. oThe ability to identify and manage risks
21. oAbility to evaluate own work
22. oEnhances the quality of patient care
23. oDemonstrates awareness of the clinical governance agenda
24. oTeaching and presentation skills
25. oDemonstrates ability to meets set targets
26. oDemonstrate ability to organise self in order to ensure efficient use of time.
27. oMeets expected levels of practice as defined by others
28. oSelf-motivated
29. oThe ability and willingness to deputise for senior staff while recognising limitations of experience and ability
30. oTakes responsibilities for own actions
Desirable
31. oAble to influence junior medical staff
32. oUnderstanding of local trust priorities
33. oEvidence of writing procedures, guidelines or protocols.