Main area Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (Secondment cover) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 395-CC212-25
Employer NELFT NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site KMAH Town Tonbridge Salary £47,810 - £54,710 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 29/07/2025 23:59
NHS AfC: Band 7
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video
Job overview
Being part of a specialist pharmacy team working within mental health services ensuring that the changing medicines management and pharmacy needs are being met in Eating Disorder Services, in-patient and community teams for CAMHS in Kent and Medway.
Main duties of the job
Being part of a specialist pharmacy team working within mental health services ensuring that the changing medicines management and pharmacy needs are being met in Eating Disorder Services, in-patient and community teams for CAMHS in Kent and Medway.
Working for our organisation
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
* Participation in multidisciplinary team meetings, consultant ward rounds or case conferences relevant to the speciality as appropriate to identify medication problems and provide advice
* Reviewing medication charts/EPMA on wards and community teams to optimise patients treatment; ensure their accuracy and appropriateness, including monitoring for interactions and adverse effects; interpreting medicines information to provide advice for individual service user circumstances
* Giving prescribing advice to medical staff and non-medical prescribers
* Advising on medicines risk management issues such as the reduction of medication incidents, and ensuring compliance with medicines legislation
* Giving medicines optimisation advice to medical, nursing and other staff and medicines information to all service users, carers, and members of staff
* Liaising with GPs, PCNs and community pharmacists, and involvement in discharge planning to ensure community medication needs of service users are fulfilled
* Provide a medicines reconciliation service for patients with complex needs
* Provide advice and information to service users and carers and actively be involved in self-medication schemes to promote patients independence
* Support the running of the near-patient testing clozapine clinic
* Support the provision of an equal standard of pharmacy service across the Trust by pro-actively developing and implementing protocols and guidelines, in collaboration with other professionals, for the safe, effective and economic use of medicines; providing supporting documents (e.g. pharmacy formulary reviews) for the Medicines Optimisation Group when requested
* Involvement in a Trust wide medicines information service and contribution to the development of a comprehensive medicines management system within the Trust
* Provide clinical supervision and support for less-experienced pharmacists, students, and supervise technicians (when undertaking ward and team clinical duties)
* Undertake clinical and practice research and audit that will influence practice within the Trust. e.g. POMH -UK
* Dispense medicines using the Trust labelling machine when required
* Assist the senior pharmacists in pharmacy to develop clinical and other services within the Trust
* To participate in the review process of all drug related incidents
* To participate in formulary development and review in the specialities
* To write and participate in the development of shared care guidelines where required for the specialities
* To write and participate in the development of PGDs and training of staff on the use of PGDs where required for the specialities
* Participate in, contribute to and take minutes for the clinical pharmacy meetings
* Identify any problems with pharmacy supplies and report to the designated member of pharmacy staff or liaise with the contractor to rectify
* To represent pharmacy at ward/team level meetings
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application.
We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.
References
Please ensure that the references are from your most recent employer and one of these must be your direct Line Manager or Supervisor. You must provide professional email addresses for all referees as we will contact them as soon as an offer has been made. Please note we do not request references prior to interviews. Additionally, ensure that any gaps in your employment history are clearly indicated. All applications made through NHS Jobs account will be processed by TRAC System. Please note that some emails may go to your spam/junk mailbox so make sure you check this regularly.
Use of AI
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used, then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
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Person specification
Qualification
* GPhC Registration
* Qualification
* MPharm or equivalent
* Experience in using RIO
* Member of RPS
* Postgraduate or clinical diploma
* Good interpersonal skill
Experience
* NMP
* Minimum of 2 years qualified post Pharmacy
* Writing and reviewing PGDs
* Community and primary care experienc
* CAMHS experience
Knowledge
* Awareness of NHS clinical governance
* Good knowledge of mental health legislation
* Good knowledge of all medicines legislation
* Basic awareness of IT skills
* Ability to organise workload
* Ability to manage and lead a team
Skills
* Demonstrates empathy to client groups
* Drivers licence
* To be aware and demonstrate trust values
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
* A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
* A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
* Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
* Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link .
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.
We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities.If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email recruitment@nelft.nhs.uk.
Correspondence with us
You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.
As part of our recruitment process, we may be required to share information you provide on the application form with NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) and/or other organisations for the purpose of the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of fraud or any other unlawful activity affecting the NHS. We also use third party providers to check and verify your qualifications who may be contacting you on our behalf to verify the same.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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