Specialist Clinical Pharmacist (Mental Health)

Job summary

Are you a clinical pharmacist with a passion for delivering outstanding care that brings the 6 Cs (care, compassion, commitment, courage, communication and competence) to life? If so, we want to hear from you. We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated pharmacist with a clinical and patient facing focus to join our established and friendly Pharmacy team. The post holder will be responsible for delivering a clinical service on our inpatient wards and within our community teams. An excellent leadership and clinical development package will be on offer for our successful candidates as we aim to invest in our staff to deliver high standards of care to our patients.

This is a clinical role and a great opportunity for pharmacists from a variety of backgrounds to gain experience in mental health pharmacy.

Depending on experience this post will either be a developmental post (band 6 role which will develop into a B7 as the postholder will be supported through PG certificate and diploma competency framework) or direct into a band 7 role.

Main duties of the job

Take local responsibility for pharmacist services to allocated clinical areas in line with rotas. Review any relevant stock lists regularly taking into consideration usage, service resilience, overall costs and prescribing trends.

Provide pharmacist cover to other clinical areas as required.

Review prescriptions and information relating to individual patients and provide relevant advice about medicines, possible side-effects, dosages, administration, supply, storage and destruction.

Ensure mental health act paperwork i.e. T2's, T3'S and CTO's is accurate and follow up where there are anomalies in line with departmental procedures.

Contribute to multi-disciplinary working within the allocated clinical area including participation in meetings, influencing the formulation and review of treatment plans and ensuring safe and effective pharmaceutical treatment appropriate for the individuals or groups. Promote best practice in medicines management, medicines optimisation and evidence-based prescribing.

Contribute to pharmaceutical aspects of care planning when patients are discharged or move between services - including completion of transfer of care around medicines to primary care. Liaise with the relevant CMHT pharmacy staff so transfer of care and pharmaceutical care plans are seamless and well communicated.

Make pharmaceutical interventions and maintain records of interventions made in accordance with departmental requirements.

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.