Senior Clinical Pharmacist: Tameside maternity leave cover

Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide, manage, organise and develop the clinical pharmacy service to a Borough of Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust.

To ensure that the clinical pharmacy service provided meets with the national standards for the delivery of the pharmaceutical services to mental health.

To ensure that all developments required for the pharmacy service are incorporated into the business plans for the Borough.

To ensure that pharmacy services work within agreed guidelines to ensure effective medicines management.

To ensure the delivery of effective medicines management in conjunction with medical and nursing staff

To ensure the implementation of all Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust policies and procedures that impact on medicines management and pharmaceutical care.

To work in close liaison with other pharmacists and technical staff providing a pharmacy service to Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust under Service Level Agreement (SLA), to ensure the delivery and supply of medication to the mental health wards, departments and units.

To work with the Chief Pharmacist and South Network Lead Pharmacist to ensure that there is liaison with the Service Directors and/ or medical manager about medicines management issues, as necessary.

Applicants must be pharmacists registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council, have experience of mental health pharmacy and a post graduate qualification in clinical pharmacy.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential

• Master's degree in Pharmacy (4 years)
• Post-graduate qualification in clinical pharmacy
• Registration as Pharmacist with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Professionally up to date including Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in line with GPhC requirements
• Good Clinical Practice (GCP) accreditation

Desirable

• First level NHS management qualification or equivalent experience
• Non-Medical Prescribing (NMP) qualification
• Doctorate

Experience

Essential

• Extensive post qualification experience
• Variety of hospital based pharmacy services
• Variety of clinical pharmacy experience including mental health
• Provision of specialist advice about medicines to clinicians in secondary care
• Analysis and interpretation of queries related to patients and medicines
• Initiating and implementing change in services
• Training healthcare professionals
• Development of medicines related policies and guidelines
• Supervision of pharmacy staff / technicians
• Planning and organising of clinical trials
• Planning and organises medicines related audit

Desirable

• Participation in practice based research

Knowledge

Essential

• Microsoft office: Excel, Word and Outlook for email
• Developing and implementing Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
• Specialist clinical knowledge relating to medicines in mental health
• Specialist knowledge of medicines to treat physical health
• Specialist knowledge of clinical trials involving medicines and related legislation

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• IT skills including use of databases
• Planning and organisational skills
• Proposing changes relating to medicines within a mental health borough
• Analysis of medicines related data
• Good communication skills (written and oral)
• To maintain and develop professional relationships
• Works alone or in a team
• Recognises personal limitations and takes appropriate advice from others
• Plans workload of borough based pharmacy service
• Plans own workload and meets deadlines
• Works accurately
• Monitors drug expenditure for a mental health borough

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Pennine Care NHS FT

Address

Mental Health Unit, Tameside

Tameside General Hospital

Tameside

OL6 9RW

Employer's website

https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)