Senior Mental Health Pharmacist

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Role: Senior Clinical Pharmacist Mental Health

Band: 8a

Posts available: 22.5 hours over 3-4 days - Fixed Term 12 month contract

Location: The Mount, Whalley Road, Accrington, BB5 5AD

Are you a highly motivated and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist with a keen interest and previous experience in mental health?

An great opportunity has arisen due to maternity leave. We have an exciting vacancy for a senior clinical pharmacist post in The Community Mental Health Team located at The Mount in Accrington. This is a well established MH team within the Pennine Locality.

The team is based on 'safety by design' to ensure that it can provide high quality care. The ethos of the team is to provide therapeutic care which is empowering, person-centred and needs led, and focuses on promoting recovery and independence.

We are looking to recruit an experienced mental health pharmacist to join our friendly, innovative and supportive clinical pharmacy team on a fixed term 12 month contract.

Main duties of the job

As the successful candidate you will be responsible for the delivery of a high quality, pro-active and patient focused clinical pharmacy service to the community mental health team. Key components of the role include:

Clinical review of prescriptions and patient-orientated medication reviews

Provision of specialist pharmaceutical advice to multi-disciplinary teams

Involvement of patients in decisions about their medicines to support adherence and improve outcomes

Potential to utilise non-medical prescribing skills within the role outline

Opportunity to influence the development of services to improve patient care through service redesign

Participation in clinical audit and service evaluation

Supervision of junior pharmacy staff

Contribution to the training and development of junior pharmacy team members and other members of the multi-disciplinary team

Participation in the clinical supervision programme

Input to the development of policies and procedures and treatment guidelines

Contribute to initiatives to improve medicines safety

You will have current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.

It is also desirable, however not essential that you have a postgraduate pharmacy qualification or equivalent experience, and post registration experience in mental health.

The post does not require weekend working or an on-call commitment.

About us

We want to recruit people to the service who share our values and are confident in their ability to contribute to the demonstrated effectiveness and acceptability of our service.

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.

Date posted

04 October 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year per annum, pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

12 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

351-CS2648-LG-B

Job locations

The Mount

Accrington

BB5 5DE

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Masters degree in Pharmacy
Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
Postgraduate diploma or equivalent including MA/MSc or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential

Previous experience of working in mental health

Knowledge

Essential

Good clinical knowledge

Skills

Essential

Good communication skills
Organisational skills
Decision making skills

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Masters degree in Pharmacy
Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
Postgraduate diploma or equivalent including MA/MSc or equivalent experience

Experience

Essential

Previous experience of working in mental health

Knowledge

Essential

Good clinical knowledge

Skills

Essential

Good communication skills
Organisational skills
Decision making 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.

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).