Senior clinical pharmacist community mental health

Senior Clinical Pharmacist Community Mental Health

We have an excellent opportunity for a pharmacists to join our community mental health offer. You will work with the Community Mental Health Teams in Tameside acting as a key contributor to the multi-disciplinary team to support safe, effective and evidence based treatment to patients with serious and enduring mental illness. There is no dispensary or out of hours commitment providing the perfect opportunity for you to develop your clinical skills and broaden your mental health knowledge and experience.

Main duties of the job

To deliver the established clinical pharmacy service to the CMHTs in Tameside .

To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate specialist clinical mental health pharmacy services in your area.

To provide expert pharmaceutical advice and liaison to the CMHT, GPs, practice pharmacists, other healthcare professionals (HCPs), patients, and carers.

To lead on ensuring that drug therapy is evidence based, safe, cost effective and appropriate to the individual patient.

To provide training to the CMHT / Neighbourhood Mental Health team, GPs and other HCPs within Primary Care around the use of psychotropic medicines.

To ensure that pharmacy services work within agreed guidelines to ensure effective medicines management

To provide cover for other pharmacists providing a service to and employed by Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, as requested.

About us

You will work within a multi-disciplinary CMHT within Tameside . You will also be supported by a lively clinical pharmacy team who are dedicated to delivering excellent services and cover community services, assessment services, specialist services and inpatient services. You will receive clinical and and management supervision and have opportunities to develop yourself and the role through education, training, team meetings and opportunities such as Quality Improvement and audit. You will be supported to undertake further qualifications as needed . The role is entirely clinical with no dispensary, out of hours or on call commitment

Job responsibilities

You will deliver the established clinical pharmacy service to the CMHTs in Tameside; the main responsibilities are covered in the job description

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

• Current member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Evidence of CPD and commitment to life-long learning
• Relevant post graduate qualification, i.e. Diploma / MSc in Clinical Pharmacy / Pharmacy
• Practice, or Prescribing Sciences (or equivalent experience)

Experience

• Variety of clinical pharmacy experience including mental health
• Experience in initiating, leading and implementing change and new developments
• Experience of developing guidelines or protocols
• Experience of training and supporting other members of staff
• Experience of in-patient mental health pharmacy services
• Experience of people management
• Participation in practice based Research
• Knowledge of methods of analysis of prescribing

Knowledge

• Current member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Relevant post graduate qualification, i.e. Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice or equivalent experience
• Experience in a number of areas of psychiatric pharmacy practice
• Experience in initiating, leading and implementing change and new developments
• Knowledge and experience of clinical audit
• developing policies and strategies
• CMHP credentialed
• Qualified Prescriber

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.