Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a clinical pharmacist to join our successful mental health team at Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, working across Lincolnshire. As an early Intervention in psychosis pharmacist, you will play a crucial role in both clinical and operational aspects of patient care within the Trusts EIP service. You will practice as a Pharmacist Independent Prescriber, initiating, prescribing, and reviewing medications in accordance with established clinical guidelines, legislation, evidence-based practices, and your scope of practice.
The team provides a comprehensive clinical service across the trust, and you will use your experience, skills, and initiative to develop, coordinate and provide a high-quality clinical pharmacy service to patients and their carers.
Main duties of the job
The main responsibilities of this position include:
o Supporting assessments to help meet the access standards as part of the MDT;
o Initiation of medication through meaningful shared decision making;
o Review response, side effects and potential stopping of medication;
o Identify side effects quickly to reduce time to initiate clozapine; and
o Patient visits with consultants for the provision of expert advice in pharmacotherapy and timely access to medication reviews.
Assistance in:
o Contributing to service development initiatives,
o Mentoring post-registration pharmacists,
o Participating in the training of healthcare professionals.
o Supporting pharmacy service areas within the department.
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 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, 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. 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 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.
Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
We will invest in you, so we will fully fund and support postgraduate studies or courses to help you further develop your career. We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:
- Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
- Competitive annual leave allowance
- Car leasing scheme
- Childcare Vouchers
- NHS pension scheme
- Free eye tests
- Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurant
Get in touch today:
Our friendly team is here to answer any questions you may have about our roles. For more information, please contact Joshua Confue, Clinical Pharmacy Services Manager, via email at joshua.confue1@nhs.net or by telephone at 01522 421468.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.
When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
We will invest in you, so we will fully fund and support postgraduate studies or courses to help you further develop your career. We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:
- Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
- Competitive annual leave allowance
- Car leasing scheme
- Childcare Vouchers
- NHS pension scheme
- Free eye tests
- Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurant
Get in touch today:
Our friendly team is here to answer any questions you may have about our roles. For more information, please contact Joshua Confue, Clinical Pharmacy Services Manager, via email at joshua.confue1@nhs.net or by telephone at 01522 421468.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Sufficient number of years post-registration experience as a practising pharmacist.
- Sufficient experience of working in a mental health 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.
- Experience with working with EIP services
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
- Good organisation skills
- Up to date knowledge of NHS and DOH policies and publications relating to medicines, especially national patient & medicines safety agendas
- Critical appraisal skills
- Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement
- Ability to identify and manage risk
- Ability to manage, organise and prioritise workload and meet deadlines - good time management
- Ability to maintain quality standards of work, including when under pressure
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc, BPharm or MSc in pharmacy
- Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
- Clinical or psychiatric postgraduate certificate and diploma (or undertaking)
Desirable
- Membership of/credentialed with the CMHP
- Membership with RPS
- Non-medical prescriber
- Management/leadership qualification
Special requirements
Essential
- Must have the ability to travel independently across sites without the use of public transport.
- Evidence of CPD and revalidation with the GPhC.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Sufficient number of years post-registration experience as a practising pharmacist.
- Sufficient experience of working in a mental health 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.
- Experience with working with EIP services
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
- Good organisation skills
- Up to date knowledge of NHS and DOH policies and publications relating to medicines, especially national patient & medicines safety agendas
- Critical appraisal skills
- Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement
- Ability to identify and manage risk
- Ability to manage, organise and prioritise workload and meet deadlines - good time management
- Ability to maintain quality standards of work, including when under pressure
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc, BPharm or MSc in pharmacy
- Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
- Clinical or psychiatric postgraduate certificate and diploma (or undertaking)
Desirable
- Membership of/credentialed with the CMHP
- Membership with RPS
- Non-medical prescriber
- Management/leadership qualification
Special requirements
Essential
- Must have the ability to travel independently across sites without the use of public transport.
- Evidence of CPD and revalidation with the GPhC.
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
