Job summary
Advanced Specialist Mental Health Pharmacist - Older People & Frailty Services Lead
NB: A relocation package can be offered to the successful candidate and flexible, hybrid working options will be considered.
There are no weekend, Bank Holiday working or pharmacy out of hours on-call commitments.
We are very pleased to be expanding our team and advertising this brand new senior mental health pharmacist post within our mental health and learning disability Trust to provide leadership and clinical pharmacy expertise within our older people's and frailty division.
If you are enthusiastic about and experienced in mental health therapeutics, self-motivated, patient-focused and compassionate, then this is the ideal job opportunity for you. You will be able to use your skills, knowledge and influence to make a positive difference to the quality of pharmaceutical care that our older people receive.
Please see the attached advert for more information.
Main duties of the job
This post is essential for the delivery of a modern, specialist mental health service across all LPFT older adult teams/services. The post holder will use his/her experience, skills and initiative to develop, co-ordinate and provide a high-quality clinical pharmacy service to patients and their carers within Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust's (LPFT) older people and frailty (OP&F) division.
The postholder will be an expert in psychiatric therapeutics and provide high quality expert clinical pharmacy advice in all areas of older adult and dementia services across LPFT and the Integrated Care System (ICS) where applicable. They will produce and implement good practise guidelines, procedures, protocols and pharmaceutical care pathways to improve medicines optimisation into and out of the services within the OP&F division.
They will be a core member of multidisciplinary team meetings and oversee and undertake clinical audit and quality improvement initiatives where required to optimise and develop services.
They will work closely with other managers and leaders inside and outside of the Trust to ensure clinical pharmacy service delivery to the OP&F division are provided by a competent and versatile pharmacy workforce.
The postholder will be a role model to and provide clinical supervision and line management to junior and trainee pharmacy staff.
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide a high quality, expert clinical pharmacy service to patients and carers within the OP&F division in accordance with the pharmacy service and national good practise standards..
- To work closely with other inpatient and community-based specialist clinical pharmacists to ensure that seamless pharmaceutical care is provided throughout the patients journey through the various Trust and external services.
- To collaborate with clinicians and stake holders, in primary, secondary, and tertiary care to ensure good medicines management and optimisation across the Lincolnshire system.
- To identify opportunities and mechanisms to promote and support evidence-based practice across the OP&F division and where appropriate, take the initiative to improve the effectiveness and cost efficiencies of clinical pharmacy service provision by means of audit and quality improvement where possible.
- To plan and establish a prescribing role within the divisional service where this will improve the quality and safety of pharmaceutical services. To act as an independent prescriber in accordance to the Trusts prescribing policy.
- To lead on the development of medication policies and guidelines for safe medication practise. This will include the delivery of the medicines governance agenda in line with the RPS Professional Standards for Hospital Pharmacy Services.
- To ensure all team members within the division comply with medicines management standards, policies, and procedures as per LPFTs Medicines Management Policy within their area of responsibility, and to provide training to staff to support the compliance with the above.
- To deliver and support peers/colleagues with formal training/education programme for clinical and non-clinical staff in the Trust.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide a high quality, expert clinical pharmacy service to patients and carers within the OP&F division in accordance with the pharmacy service and national good practise standards..
- To work closely with other inpatient and community-based specialist clinical pharmacists to ensure that seamless pharmaceutical care is provided throughout the patients journey through the various Trust and external services.
- To collaborate with clinicians and stake holders, in primary, secondary, and tertiary care to ensure good medicines management and optimisation across the Lincolnshire system.
- To identify opportunities and mechanisms to promote and support evidence-based practice across the OP&F division and where appropriate, take the initiative to improve the effectiveness and cost efficiencies of clinical pharmacy service provision by means of audit and quality improvement where possible.
- To plan and establish a prescribing role within the divisional service where this will improve the quality and safety of pharmaceutical services. To act as an independent prescriber in accordance to the Trusts prescribing policy.
- To lead on the development of medication policies and guidelines for safe medication practise. This will include the delivery of the medicines governance agenda in line with the RPS Professional Standards for Hospital Pharmacy Services.
- To ensure all team members within the division comply with medicines management standards, policies, and procedures as per LPFTs Medicines Management Policy within their area of responsibility, and to provide training to staff to support the compliance with the above.
- To deliver and support peers/colleagues with formal training/education programme for clinical and non-clinical staff in the Trust.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oMasters degree in Pharmacy (or equivalent).
- oStatutory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council, UK.
- oClinical or psychiatric postgraduate certificate.
- oClinical or psychiatric postgraduate diploma.
Desirable
- oMembership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, UK.
- oIndependent prescriber.
- oMembership with the CMHP
Experience
Essential
- Sufficient number of years post-registration experience as a practising pharmacist.
- Substantial experience in working in a mental health hospital pharmacy setting.
- Experience in audit, project or research facilitation or management.
- Experience of established multidisciplinary team working.
- Experience of service planning or development.
- Experience of providing patient information and therapeutic engagement with patients and carers
- Experience of teaching and training HCPs at a range of levels (undergraduate and postgraduate).
- Experience of managing unpredictable work patterns and to effectively manage situations where concentration may be frequently interrupted.
Desirable
- Experience of pharmacy staff management and development.
- Management qualification.
Skills & Competences
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrates expert, advanced clinical knowledge and skills within psychiatric therapeutics.
- Effective problem identification and solving skills.
- Excellent presentation skills.
- Up to date knowledge of relevant NHS and DHSC policies and publications relating to medicines, especially national patient and medicines safety agendas.
- Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement.
- Ability to maintain quality standards of work, including when under pressure.
- Change agent and supportive approach to change.
Desirable
- Demonstrates and displays a sound understanding of professional boundaries.
- Patient and supportive approach.
- Professional manner and appearance.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oMasters degree in Pharmacy (or equivalent).
- oStatutory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council, UK.
- oClinical or psychiatric postgraduate certificate.
- oClinical or psychiatric postgraduate diploma.
Desirable
- oMembership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, UK.
- oIndependent prescriber.
- oMembership with the CMHP
Experience
Essential
- Sufficient number of years post-registration experience as a practising pharmacist.
- Substantial experience in working in a mental health hospital pharmacy setting.
- Experience in audit, project or research facilitation or management.
- Experience of established multidisciplinary team working.
- Experience of service planning or development.
- Experience of providing patient information and therapeutic engagement with patients and carers
- Experience of teaching and training HCPs at a range of levels (undergraduate and postgraduate).
- Experience of managing unpredictable work patterns and to effectively manage situations where concentration may be frequently interrupted.
Desirable
- Experience of pharmacy staff management and development.
- Management qualification.
Skills & Competences
Essential
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrates expert, advanced clinical knowledge and skills within psychiatric therapeutics.
- Effective problem identification and solving skills.
- Excellent presentation skills.
- Up to date knowledge of relevant NHS and DHSC policies and publications relating to medicines, especially national patient and medicines safety agendas.
- Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement.
- Ability to maintain quality standards of work, including when under pressure.
- Change agent and supportive approach to change.
Desirable
- Demonstrates and displays a sound understanding of professional boundaries.
- Patient and supportive approach.
- Professional manner and appearance.
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.
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
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.
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).
