Job summary
Are you looking for a new challenge? Fancy joining a dynamic, forward-thinking, and patient-focussed team that is continuously striving to deliver excellent clinical pharmacy services?
We have fantastic opportunities across our mental health in-patient and secure and learning disability services, for experienced, enthusiastic, adaptable, highly self-motivated pharmacists with a passion for mental health to join our friendly and supportive teams.
You will be responsible for leading, delivering and developing our mental health clinical pharmacy services. You will support multi-disciplinary teams to deliver high quality, safe and cost-effective pharmaceutical care for patients.
We are looking for proactive candidates with excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills and ability to work autonomously, build relationships, manage, and motivate a team.
You will not routinely work weekends or cover the on-call advisory service unless minimum thresholds are breached.
A recruitment premium applies to this post for new Trust employees. Successful candidates will receive £2,000 on joining and an additional £2,000 on completion of the first year of employment. Recruitment premia must be paid back in full if you leave the Trust within two years of starting.
Main duties of the job
To participate in the delivery of highly specialist clinical pharmacy services, ensuring that services meet professional standards and comply with relevant legislation.
To carry out medicines reconciliation, clinically checks and medication reviews to ensure the safe and effective use of medicines.
To actively participate and develop effective partnerships with other professions as part of a multi-disciplinary approach to medicines optimisation.
To undertake pharmaceutical care planning, utilising local trust guidance and national protocols.
To provide specialist information and advice on the safe and effective use of medicines to patients and their carers to support informed decision making and treatment adherence.
To ensure effective medication practices are developed and carried out consistently across mental health services, promoting medicines safety and reducing harm from medications.
To participate in clinical audit and practice research
To participate in training, supervision, mentoring and line management of colleagues
Refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the requirements of this post.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North-West, serving more than 11 million people.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Our inpatient services cover a wide geographical area across a large proportion of the North-West providing specialist care including Secure Services located in Maghull health park, Whalley, Hollins Park and Rathbone site, Non-Secure Services located in Broadoak, Clock View, Hartley Hospital, Knowsley and Peasley, Hollins Park, Windsor House, Fern ward, Heys Court, Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Hope Centre and Longmoor intermediate care reablement unit.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. To participate in the delivery of highly specialist clinical pharmaceutical and medical supplyservices, ensuring that services meet the standards set by the General Pharmaceutical Counciland relevant legislation.2. To act as the lead specialist for learning disabilities within the medicines management team.3. To act as the trusts lead for the Stopping Over-Medication of People with a Learning Disability,Autism or Both (STOMP) and Supporting Treatment and Appropriate Medication in Paediatrics(STAMP) agenda.4. To be a champion for STOMP and STAMP, actively promoting the agenda and ensuring thatcolleagues and external partners are aware of the campaign and the pledge.5. To ensure that all medicines management staff within the trust are encouraged to sign up to theSTOMP/STAMP pledge.6. To train and encourage staff within the medicines management team to develop theconsultation skills required for communicating and having discussions about medicines withpeople with learning disabilities, autism or both, and their carers.7. To develop and implement a strategy for STOMP/STAMP, ensuring that it covers all areas of thetrust including wards and clinics which are not specialist learning disability services, and toensure that this is regularly audited.8. To develop, implement and review a medicines review programme across the organisation tostop the over-medication of people with learning disabilities9. To actively initiate and take part in practice research relating to learning disabilities and theSTOMP/STAMP agenda, which may lead to publication or to the presentation of papers orposters at conferences and workshops.10. To represent the trust at national and regional meetings and conference in relation to learningdisabilities and STOMP/STAMP.
11. Please refer to JD for more information.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. To participate in the delivery of highly specialist clinical pharmaceutical and medical supplyservices, ensuring that services meet the standards set by the General Pharmaceutical Counciland relevant legislation.2. To act as the lead specialist for learning disabilities within the medicines management team.3. To act as the trusts lead for the Stopping Over-Medication of People with a Learning Disability,Autism or Both (STOMP) and Supporting Treatment and Appropriate Medication in Paediatrics(STAMP) agenda.4. To be a champion for STOMP and STAMP, actively promoting the agenda and ensuring thatcolleagues and external partners are aware of the campaign and the pledge.5. To ensure that all medicines management staff within the trust are encouraged to sign up to theSTOMP/STAMP pledge.6. To train and encourage staff within the medicines management team to develop theconsultation skills required for communicating and having discussions about medicines withpeople with learning disabilities, autism or both, and their carers.7. To develop and implement a strategy for STOMP/STAMP, ensuring that it covers all areas of thetrust including wards and clinics which are not specialist learning disability services, and toensure that this is regularly audited.8. To develop, implement and review a medicines review programme across the organisation tostop the over-medication of people with learning disabilities9. To actively initiate and take part in practice research relating to learning disabilities and theSTOMP/STAMP agenda, which may lead to publication or to the presentation of papers orposters at conferences and workshops.10. To represent the trust at national and regional meetings and conference in relation to learningdisabilities and STOMP/STAMP.
11. Please refer to JD for more information.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Master of Pharmacy degree, or equivalent qualification
- Postgraduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy, or equivalent experience
- Independent prescriber qualification, or willingness to work toward
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable
- Completion of Learning Disabilities Core Skills Education and Training Framework
- Postgraduate qualification in Psychiatric Therapeutics
- Membership of the College of Mental Health Pharmacy (CMHP)
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- Leadership or management qualification/training
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within pharmaceutical services
- Experience of working within an NHS organisation
- Experience of working in hospital pharmacy
- Experience of working with service users with learning disabilities
- Experience of multidisciplinary team working
- Experience of undertaking audit within pharmaceutical services
- Experience of providing supervision
- Experience of providing education regarding medicines
- Understanding of how medicines optimisation contributes to high quality patient care
- Clear understanding of relevant legislation and guidance
- Awareness of local area prescribing committee processes
- Understanding and positive regard for the needs and rights of people with mental health problems or learning disabilities, and their carers
- Demonstrable evidence of commitment to self development and CPD
Desirable
- Experience of provision of medicines information services
- Experience of line management of staff
- Knowledge of the evidence base relating to the prescribing of psychotropic medicines
- Knowledge of recent and upcoming initiatives within pharmaceutical services
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- Ability to work under pressure
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
Skills
Essential
- Excellent organisational skills
- Good IT skills
- Excellent communication skills: o - written o - verbal o - listening
- Ability to work both independently and as a team player
- Ability to work flexibly
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to prioritise workload and manage time effectively to meet specified deadlines
- Self-motivated and able to use initiative
- Problem-solving skills
- Report-writing skills
- Ability to analyse data
- Negotiating and influencing skills
- Ability to adapt to changing environments, needs and demands
- Recognition of own limitations and ability to ask for support when necessary
- Professional manner
- Ability to travel between different sites
Desirable
- Project management skills
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Master of Pharmacy degree, or equivalent qualification
- Postgraduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy, or equivalent experience
- Independent prescriber qualification, or willingness to work toward
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable
- Completion of Learning Disabilities Core Skills Education and Training Framework
- Postgraduate qualification in Psychiatric Therapeutics
- Membership of the College of Mental Health Pharmacy (CMHP)
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- Leadership or management qualification/training
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within pharmaceutical services
- Experience of working within an NHS organisation
- Experience of working in hospital pharmacy
- Experience of working with service users with learning disabilities
- Experience of multidisciplinary team working
- Experience of undertaking audit within pharmaceutical services
- Experience of providing supervision
- Experience of providing education regarding medicines
- Understanding of how medicines optimisation contributes to high quality patient care
- Clear understanding of relevant legislation and guidance
- Awareness of local area prescribing committee processes
- Understanding and positive regard for the needs and rights of people with mental health problems or learning disabilities, and their carers
- Demonstrable evidence of commitment to self development and CPD
Desirable
- Experience of provision of medicines information services
- Experience of line management of staff
- Knowledge of the evidence base relating to the prescribing of psychotropic medicines
- Knowledge of recent and upcoming initiatives within pharmaceutical services
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- Ability to work under pressure
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
Skills
Essential
- Excellent organisational skills
- Good IT skills
- Excellent communication skills: o - written o - verbal o - listening
- Ability to work both independently and as a team player
- Ability to work flexibly
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to prioritise workload and manage time effectively to meet specified deadlines
- Self-motivated and able to use initiative
- Problem-solving skills
- Report-writing skills
- Ability to analyse data
- Negotiating and influencing skills
- Ability to adapt to changing environments, needs and demands
- Recognition of own limitations and ability to ask for support when necessary
- Professional manner
- Ability to travel between different sites
Desirable
- Project management skills
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
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Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
