Overview
In this role, you will work closely with the Consultant Pharmacist and Lead Pharmacists for CYPMHS as part of a multidisciplinary team, supporting service users across community services and inpatient units. This post offers excellent opportunities for professional development, including support to undertake accredited medicines management qualifications and NHS leadership programmes.
We are looking for a proactive, compassionate individual with strong communication skills and a genuine interest in working directly with young people, families, and healthcare professionals. You will become part of our innovative mental health pharmacy team, committed to ensuring medicines safety is embedded at the heart of patient care.
The base for this role will be Kent and Medway CYPMHS in Maidstone with a requirement for periodic travel to other sites across Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust.
Key Responsibilities
* Deliver a high-quality clinical pharmacy service to CYPMHS, optimising patient outcomes and supporting care pathways across Kent and Medway in collaboration with wider healthcare partners.
* Engage directly with young people and their families, ensuring their views inform decisions about their care.
* Promote improvements in the quality, safety, and cost-effectiveness of medicines use across the CYPMHS pathway.
* Support the safe transition of patients across care settings, ensuring continuity and seamless pharmaceutical care.
* Provide counseling to patients and carers to support medicines optimisation and adherence.
* Deliver medicines reconciliation, discharge planning, patient counselling, medicines supply, and support community clinic pharmacy services.
* Use EPMA/medicines informatics systems, complete physical health checks for children and young people on psychotropic medication, and contribute to audits and support teaching and training.
Qualifications and Requirements
* Qualified Pharmacy Technician with interest in working in Mental Health Services.
* Must hold a full, valid UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle for business purposes (unless a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
* Experience with EPMA or other medicines informatics systems is desirable.
* Capability to undertake accredited medicines management qualifications and participate in NHS leadership programmes.
About Us
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway, supporting adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Our teams work across hospital and community settings, making care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.
Our values are caring, inclusive, curious, and confident. Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that works well together.
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