Job summary
We are excited to announce an opportunity to work within a novel pharmacy role within community mental health care. This role has been developed as part of East London Foundation NHS Trusts ambitious Community Transformation Programme, developed to redesign and improve the way mental health care services are delivered to our population.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will work within various teams of healthcare professionals embedded within newly formed mental health neighbourhood teams across Hackney working to support service users in new models of care, with an aim to support medicines optimisation and safety. The post-holder will be responsible for delivering medicines consultations with service users, provision of psychotropic medicines information and performing medication reviews. The post-holder will contribute towards projects revolving around psychotropic medicines to improve patient care and safety and deliver education and training for primary care colleagues to increase knowledge and confidence around psychotropic medications. There will be opportunities for non-medical prescribing. As this is a newly developed role, we are open to hearing your ideas and piloting these using quality improvement methodology.
We are looking for an experienced mental health pharmacist who can display innovation and generate ideas to extend the boundaries of the pharmacy profession, with a passion for improving the quality of, and access to mental health care in the community setting.
About us
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see JD (Job Description) and PS (Personal Specification) for full details of role requirements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see JD (Job Description) and PS (Personal Specification) for full details of role requirements.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Vocational Masters Degree in Pharmacy
- Significant post registration training relevant to mental health pharmacy
- Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Psychiatry qualification (or willing to work towards this)
Desirable
- Diploma in clinical pharmacy
- Non medical prescribing qualification (or working towards this)
- Member of RPS/CMHP
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate medicine related information to mental health patients, carers and clinical staff
- Previous experience in providing clinical mental health services.
- Delivery of training and education
- Successful implementation of medication projects
- Involvement in service development
- Line managing other staff members
- Delivery of clinical audit
Desirable
- Analysis of key performance indicators/medication data
- Evidence of writing procedures, guidelines or protocols.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Clinical and critical appraisal skills
- Able to influence prescribing
- Communicates with medical, nursing and pharmacy staff in clear precise and appropriate manner.
- To have an awareness of national and local priorities
- The ability to identify and manage risks
- Ability to evaluate own work
- Enhances the quality of patient care
- Demonstrates awareness of the clinical governance agenda
- Can balance competing priorities and meet set targets of different stakeholders
- Desire to develop role to meet service user needs
Desirable
- Identifies and implements best practice
- Can demonstrate innovation
- Manages difficult and ambiguous problems
- Demonstrates a whole system patient focussed approach
- Knowledge of Quality Improvement
- Comfortable working independently in new care models
Other
Essential
- Works calmly under pressure.
- Understands and shows commitment to continuing personal development.
- Friendly personality; helpful to other staff and patients.
- Adaptable
- Self-motivated
- Takes responsibilities for own actions
- Sickness (or attendance) record that is acceptable to the Trust: to be checked at interview. Declared medically fit by the Occupational Health Department to perform the duties of the post
Person Specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential
- Vocational Masters Degree in Pharmacy
- Significant post registration training relevant to mental health pharmacy
- Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Psychiatry qualification (or willing to work towards this)
Desirable
- Diploma in clinical pharmacy
- Non medical prescribing qualification (or working towards this)
- Member of RPS/CMHP
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate medicine related information to mental health patients, carers and clinical staff
- Previous experience in providing clinical mental health services.
- Delivery of training and education
- Successful implementation of medication projects
- Involvement in service development
- Line managing other staff members
- Delivery of clinical audit
Desirable
- Analysis of key performance indicators/medication data
- Evidence of writing procedures, guidelines or protocols.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Clinical and critical appraisal skills
- Able to influence prescribing
- Communicates with medical, nursing and pharmacy staff in clear precise and appropriate manner.
- To have an awareness of national and local priorities
- The ability to identify and manage risks
- Ability to evaluate own work
- Enhances the quality of patient care
- Demonstrates awareness of the clinical governance agenda
- Can balance competing priorities and meet set targets of different stakeholders
- Desire to develop role to meet service user needs
Desirable
- Identifies and implements best practice
- Can demonstrate innovation
- Manages difficult and ambiguous problems
- Demonstrates a whole system patient focussed approach
- Knowledge of Quality Improvement
- Comfortable working independently in new care models
Other
Essential
- Works calmly under pressure.
- Understands and shows commitment to continuing personal development.
- Friendly personality; helpful to other staff and patients.
- Adaptable
- Self-motivated
- Takes responsibilities for own actions
- Sickness (or attendance) record that is acceptable to the Trust: to be checked at interview. Declared medically fit by the Occupational Health Department to perform the duties of the post
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).
