Overview
A part-time opportunity has arisen to join our established, friendly, and dynamic clinical pharmacy team at South London and the Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. The required job role is set at Band 7 Senior Clinical Pharmacist Level with mental health experience. Vacancies are available at the Lambeth Hospital. As part of our ambitious plans to modernise our buildings and services, Lambeth Hospital will be closing and all our inpatient services will move to a new, high-quality building, called Douglas Bennett House, on the Maudsley site. We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. Once established in post, there are further opportunities for development and career progression in a variety of settings, for example education and training, quality improvement, research, clinical trials, independent prescribing and more.
* To deliver a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to the Lambeth Home Treatment Team (LHTT) and Maudsley Hospital in line with Trust policies, procedures, and standards.
* To have medicines related consultations with patients and carers; involve patients in treatment decisions; improve patient and carer satisfaction with information they receive about medicines.
* To support the multidisciplinary LHTT and Maudsley inpatient and community mental health teams to use medicines safely and effectively and reduce medicines wastage through medicines optimisation and quality improvement programmes, and by providing medicines related training.
* To support the LHTT and Maudsley inpatient units/community mental health teams to use medicines safely and effectively and reduce medicines wastage.
* To implement medicines optimisation and quality improvement programmes in the teams.
* To act as a practice supervisor in the training and education of trainee pharmacists and junior pharmacists.
* To prescribe medicines to service users within competence and agreed management plans.
* To partake in the pharmacy on-call service (Emergency Duty Cover, bank holiday rotas) and a Saturday service at the Maudsley Hospital site.
Job Purpose
1. To deliver a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to the Lambeth Home Treatment Team (LHTT) and Maudsley Hospital in line with Trust policies, procedures, and standards.
2. To have medicines related consultations with patients and carers; involve patients in treatment decisions; improve patient and carer satisfaction with information they receive about medicines.
3. To support the multidisciplinary LHTT and Maudsley inpatient and community mental health teams to use medicines safely and effectively and reduce medicines wastage through medicines optimisation and quality improvement programmes, and by providing medicines related training.
4. To support the LHTT and Maudsley inpatient units/community mental health teams to use medicines safely and effectively and reduce medicines wastage.
5. To implement medicines optimisation and quality improvement programmes in the teams.
6. To act as a practice supervisor in the training and education of trainee pharmacists and junior pharmacists.
7. To prescribe medicines to service users within competence and agreed management plans.
8. To partake in the pharmacy on-call service (Emergency Duty Cover, bank holiday rotas) and a Saturday service at the Maudsley Hospital site.
9. To ensure safe and effective use of medicines at Home Treatment Team, ward, community mental health teams, and dispensary level to ensure safe and effective use of medicines.
10. To be responsible for providing clinical pharmacy input as part of the multidisciplinary team (MDT), including advice on medicines, unlicensed use where appropriate, and liaison with medicines information pharmacists.
11. To provide clinical pharmacy service to groups of patients, ensure effective outcomes of treatment, monitor for adverse effects, support after discharge, undertake medicines-related consultations, and ensure patient understanding of medicines.
12. To assess medicine regimes and provide highly specific advice to clinical team members on complex issues (e.g., drug interactions, high-dose antipsychotics, unlicensed use).
13. To prescribe medicines within scope if qualified and registered with the GPhC as an independent pharmacist prescriber.
14. To present information in a suitable format and style for the target audience, considering barriers to effective communication.
15. To provide timely information to the appropriate individual according to urgency.
16. To prepare and deliver training for clinical staff on medicines-related issues and provide clinical supervision to a team of pharmacists.
17. To support local implementation of Trust Medicines Management Policies and ensure safe handling of medicines in designated areas.
18. To record and collect data on patient and service outcomes and report to relevant committees.
19. To identify and undertake project work to drive improvements within own clinical area.
20. To participate in quality improvement initiatives, undertake audits, and engage in research and medicines evaluation as required by the Chief Pharmacist.
About the team
The pharmacy department provides dispensing services from the Maudsley, Lambeth, Bethlem Royal hospitals and Ladywell unit and a clinical pharmacy service to 1,000 inpatients and 3,000 community patients. The Medicines Information Centre at the Maudsley is the national centre for information on psychotropics. The department produces the Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines, now on its 14th Edition, and is the world\'s leading pharmacy centre for research in psychiatry, having published over 300 clinical papers in the past 25 years. The pharmacy is also part of the Pharmaceutical Sciences Clinical Academic Group (PSCAG) which incorporates more than 1,800 staff and students and includes staff from all four organisations within King\'s Health Partners with the aim to integrate the work across all partner organisations to improve practice, research and healthcare/academic education and training strategy. Our CAG includes a variety of professional groups, including pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, scientists, healthcare professionals, students and administrative and support staff.
About the location
Lambeth Hospital is based in south London, and is close to a vibrant high street with lots of shops and restaurants. It is within walking distance of Brixton, Clapham North, Clapham High Street and Wandsworth Road stations, offering easy transport links to other parts of London. The site offers parking and is not located within the congestion charge zone.
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