Job summary
We have an excellent opportunity for a 3 senior mental health pharmacists to join our expanding community mental health offer. One of the roles is based within the Community Mental Health Teams in Tameside and the other two within the Living Well & Access Teams Bury and Rochdale. You will work with the Community Mental Health Teams in Tameside acting as a key contributor to the multi-disciplinary team to support safe, effective and evidence based treatment to patients with serious and enduring mental illness. Within Living Well & Access Teams the post-holder will act as a prescriber and be responsible for developing the clinical pharmacy service and medication related pathway within your borough. There is no dispensary or out of hours commitment providing the perfect opportunity for you to develop your clinical skills and broaden your mental health knowledge and experience.
Main duties of the job
To deliver the established clinical pharmacy service to the CMHTs in Tameside or to provide, manage, organise and develop the clinical pharmacy service to the Living Well and Access Teams across your borough.
To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate specialist clinical mental health pharmacy services in your area.
To provide expert pharmaceutical advice and liaison to the CMHT . Living Well Team, GPs, practice pharmacists, other healthcare professionals (HCPs), patients, and carers.
To lead on the non-medical prescribing pathway within the Living Well service and act as an independent prescriber of medication, ensuring that drug therapy is evidence based, safe, cost effective and appropriate to the individual patient.
To provide training to the CMHT / Living Well Team, GPs and other HCPs within Primary Care around the use of psychotropic medicines.
To ensure that pharmacy services work within agreed guidelines to ensure effective medicines management
To provide cover for other pharmacists providing a service to and employed by Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, as requested.
About us
You will work within a multi-disciplinary CMHT or Living Well & Access Team within your borough . You will also be supported by a lively clinical pharmacy team who are dedicated to delivering excellent services and cover community services, assessment services, specialist services and inpatient services. You will receive clinical and and management supervision and have opportunities to develop yourself and the role through education, training, team meetings and opportunities such as Quality Improvement and audit. You will be supported to undertake further qualifications as needed . The role is entirely clinical with no dispensary, out of hours or on call commitment
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will deliver the established clinical pharmacy service to the CMHTs in Tameside or depending on post you will provide, manage, organise and develop the clinical pharmacy service to the Living Well and Access Teams across Bury or Rochdale; the main responsibilities are covered in the job description
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will deliver the established clinical pharmacy service to the CMHTs in Tameside or depending on post you will provide, manage, organise and develop the clinical pharmacy service to the Living Well and Access Teams across Bury or Rochdale; the main responsibilities are covered in the job description
Person Specification
essential
Essential
- Current member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Masters degree in Pharmacy (or pre-2000 equivalent)
- Qualified Independent Prescriber or undergoing qualification
- Postgraduate qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable
- developing policies and strategies
essential and desireable
Essential
- Experience of delivering training
- Experience in a number of areas of psychiatric pharmacy practice
- Relevant post graduate qualification, i.e. Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice
- undertaken audits
- Experience in initiating, leading and implementing change and new developments
- Experience of developing guidelines or protocols
Desirable
- Experience of people management
person specfication
Essential
- Current member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Masters degree in Pharmacy (or pre-2000 equivalent)
- Relevant post graduate qualification, i.e. Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice or equivalent experience
- Experience in a number of areas of psychiatric pharmacy practice
- Experience in initiating, leading and implementing change and new developments
- Qualified prescriber
Desirable
- developing policies and strategies
- CMHP credentialed
Person Specification
essential
Essential
- Current member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Masters degree in Pharmacy (or pre-2000 equivalent)
- Qualified Independent Prescriber or undergoing qualification
- Postgraduate qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable
- developing policies and strategies
essential and desireable
Essential
- Experience of delivering training
- Experience in a number of areas of psychiatric pharmacy practice
- Relevant post graduate qualification, i.e. Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice
- undertaken audits
- Experience in initiating, leading and implementing change and new developments
- Experience of developing guidelines or protocols
Desirable
- Experience of people management
person specfication
Essential
- Current member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Masters degree in Pharmacy (or pre-2000 equivalent)
- Relevant post graduate qualification, i.e. Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice or equivalent experience
- Experience in a number of areas of psychiatric pharmacy practice
- Experience in initiating, leading and implementing change and new developments
- Qualified prescriber
Desirable
- developing policies and strategies
- CMHP credentialed
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).
