Primary Care Network Advanced Clinical Mental Health Pharmacist

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

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Job summary

Are you interested in and enthusiastic about mental health pharmacy or wanting to specialise in this field?

We're looking for an experienced Advanced Clinical Mental Health Pharmacist to play a key role across our Primary Care Network (PCN) based throughout Great Yarmouth, Gorleston, Lowestoft & South Waveney.

Our Primary Care Network (PCN) Service for Mental Health has been developed to provide access to mental health services in Primary Care as part of an integrated health and care system, which brings care closer to home for our population.

We're working collaboratively with the PCN to support the redesign and transformation of primary and community mental health care to develop and deliver a new service paradigm in line with the NHSE community mental health transformation agenda.

As PCN Advanced Clinical Mental Health Pharmacist, you'll play a vital role in supporting the integration work to implement the transformation by developing and providing medicines optimisation services to the people in the Great Yarmouth and Waveney area.

The ideal candidate will need to have a strong background in mental health as well as being confident working independently. You'll be working across all 4 PCN sites, so will need to have a flexible and proactive approach to your work.

If you're looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to work in a beautiful coastal area, we would love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job

The PCN Advanced Clinical Mental Health Pharmacist will work as part of the Primary Care Mental Health Team to provide clinical services directly to patients and service users as well as supporting a system approach to mental health medicines optimisation and management.

Main duties include:

  • Support the upskilling of PCN and practice pharmacy team to increase their confidence and skills managing medicines in this patient group.
  • Direct pharmacy teams to complete mental health safety and prescribing audits
  • Improve prescribing in line with NICE guidelines and NHS England STOMP and BPSD initiatives
  • SMI reviews, physical health monitoring and health promotion
  • Reduce inappropriate polypharmacy, side effect monitoring and reduce inappropriate antipsychotic prescribing in eg. dementia
  • Be a new referral pathway for GP's. MHP's and pharmacists within the community setting.
  • Provide specialist advice on medicines for mental health conditions
  • Training
  • Prescribing role
  • Work with psychiatrists and mental health teams.

We're committed to training, continuous professional development and ensuring all members of the team can access resources to help them to develop and progress. When you join us, you can expect to be supported from the start with a thorough induction and ongoing support, training and development opportunities.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established nursing networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Date posted

21 July 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£47,126 to £53,219 a year Pro Rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Job share

Reference number

246-GYW4064397-E

Job locations

GYW Primary Care Networks

Great Yarmouth and Waveney

NR30 1BU


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please find attached our Job Description and Person Specification for more detail on your Key Accountabilities, then if you feel you have what it takes to make a difference in your local communities, click APPLY!

Interview dates are yet to be set; you will be contacted via email and invited to book a time. These emails may go to your SPAM, so please keep checking all your emails if applying.

Please visit our Facebook and Twitter page @NSFTjobs

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registration with GPhC
  • Postgraduate certificate and/or diploma in Psychiatric Pharmacy or other post-graduate clinical pharmacy qualification including mental health modules

Desirable

  • Independent Prescriber or working towards an Independent Prescribing

Experience

Essential

  • Postgraduate employment as a pharmacist
  • mental health clinical pharmacy role

Desirable

  • Management of staff

Skills

Essential

  • Excellent communication skills
  • Decision making skills
  • Able to work independently and prioritise work appropriately.

Desirable

  • Effective project management

Knowledge

Essential

  • Evidence of expert knowledge relating to clinical pharmacy issues in psychiatry
  • Specialist knowledge of the evidence base relating to the prescribing of psychotropic medication

Other

Essential

  • Approach that is suitable to mental health/ learning disabilities/ substance misuse
  • Pro-active and displays initiative
  • Ability to work flexibly

Desirable

  • Involvement in postgraduate training
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registration with GPhC
  • Postgraduate certificate and/or diploma in Psychiatric Pharmacy or other post-graduate clinical pharmacy qualification including mental health modules

Desirable

  • Independent Prescriber or working towards an Independent Prescribing

Experience

Essential

  • Postgraduate employment as a pharmacist
  • mental health clinical pharmacy role

Desirable

  • Management of staff

Skills

Essential

  • Excellent communication skills
  • Decision making skills
  • Able to work independently and prioritise work appropriately.

Desirable

  • Effective project management

Knowledge

Essential

  • Evidence of expert knowledge relating to clinical pharmacy issues in psychiatry
  • Specialist knowledge of the evidence base relating to the prescribing of psychotropic medication

Other

Essential

  • Approach that is suitable to mental health/ learning disabilities/ substance misuse
  • Pro-active and displays initiative
  • Ability to work flexibly

Desirable

  • Involvement in postgraduate training

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

GYW Primary Care Networks

Great Yarmouth and Waveney

NR30 1BU


Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

GYW Primary Care Networks

Great Yarmouth and Waveney

NR30 1BU


Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Community Network Lead

Ruth Pillar

ruth.pillar@nsft.nhs.uk

Date posted

21 July 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£47,126 to £53,219 a year Pro Rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Job share

Reference number

246-GYW4064397-E

Job locations

GYW Primary Care Networks

Great Yarmouth and Waveney

NR30 1BU


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