Advanced Specialist Mental Health Pharmacist
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Advanced Specialist Mental Health Pharmacist
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Are you a motivated Pharmacist with mental health experience wanting to progress your career?
Do you want to gain further qualifications in an ‘Outstanding’ Trust that prioritises staff wellbeing and professional development?
Join our Pharmacy team and enjoy a varied, interesting role delivering specialised services to mental health crisis teams and mental health inpatient wards.
Based at Prospect Park Hospital in Reading, you’ll work with the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) for 2 days and with the Mental Health Inpatient wards for 3 days. We welcome full time applications or a part time application to cover either or both areas.
We are pleased to offer this role at Band 8a and as a development pathway for a Band 7 Pharmacist to progress into an 8a role. We’ll offer you support and funding to obtain your postgraduate psychiatric pharmacy diploma and Independent Prescriber qualification.
As a specialist psychiatric clinical pharmacist, you’ll deliver a high standard of clinical pharmaceutical care and be a key member of the multidisciplinary teams providing expertise in medicines related issues. The post holder will support the medicines optimisation agenda within own area of specialty.
You’d work our usual service hours of 9am–5pm, Monday to Friday, with participation in our team emergency duty rota
Applications for this role will be reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible, as vacancies may close early.
* To provide high quality, specialist clinical pharmacy service to the Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Team (CRHTT) and mental health inpatient wards to ensure the safe, clinically effective and cost-efficient use of drugs
* To participate in MDT meetings to provide expert medicines advice and support the wider medicines optimisation agenda
* To work closely with other community-based and inpatient clinical pharmacists to ensure seamless pharmaceutical care is provided throughout each patient’s journey
* To provide education and training to healthcare professionals, service users and carers
* To provide clinical pharmacy advice on the management of patients with mental illness in order to maximise benefit and minimise risk in relation to medicines
* To be responsible for updating and reviewing relevant SOPs, guidelines, PGDs and ePACT analysis
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
Our Values At Berkshire Healthcare Are
* Caring for and about you is our top priority
* Committed to providing good quality, safe services
* Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
* Flexible working options to support work-life balance.
* 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
* Generous NHS pension scheme
* Excellent learning and career development opportunities
* ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
* Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
* Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
* Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
* Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave.
* Free parking across Trust sites
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Catherine Moulds Job title: Talent Acquisition Partner Email address: catherine.moulds@berkshire.nhs.uk
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