Foundation Mental Health Pharmacist

Job summary

The role will include providing clinical pharmacy services to dedicated wards alongside developing skills and knowledge to enable you to work towards contributing to multi-disciplinary team meetings, ward rounds, providing medicines education to patients, carers and staff and completing departmental audits. You will be given excellent support by the Senior pharmacists within the team and will be supported in continuing professional development andeducation within Psychiatry It will be expected that you will work towards a distance learning Postgraduate Certificate in General Clinical Pharmacy once settled into the role.

The Pharmacy Department is committed to continuous learning, investing in the professional training and development of our workforce, ensuring you have the opportunity to grow and progress within the trust as well as a wide range of benefits, which include flexible working, salary sacrifice schemes and the opportunity to buy or sell annual leave to support a healthy work-life balance.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will provide comprehensive clinical pharmacy services within mental health and learning disability, proactively using skills and knowledge to improve patient care via medicines optimisation. The post is suitable for new or recently qualified pharmacists, including applicants who were 'provisional registrants' and are now fully qualified.

Role

Your role will primarily involve provision of Inpatient clinical pharmacy services to the Linden centre and Crystal centre. You will be required to make regular visits to these clinical sites engaging with the different teams to improve the safe and secure handling of medicines and Patient Safety

Your duties will also include occasional dispensary shifts in the main Trust dispensary in Chelmsford, and may also require occasional travel to other areas of the Trust in Essex, so being a driver with access to your own vehicle is an essential requirement.

You will be given excellent support by the senior pharmacists and technicians within the team and will be supported in your continuing education within general and psychiatric pharmacy. You will be expected to work towards a Postgraduate Certificate in General Clinical Pharmacy. You will participate in weekend and bank holiday rotas, the on-call pharmacist rota, and any early and late working rotas as required.

About us

Be part of an innovative and dynamic organisation that is committed to delivering outstanding care to patients and service users. This friendly and high performing pharmacy team is looking to appoint individuals who are passionate about Mental Health and Learning disability services. The Pharmacy department is committed to continuous learning, investing in the professional training and development of our workforce, ensuring you have the opportunity to grow and progress within the Trust

EPUT is one of the biggest mental health and community NHS Foundation Trusts in the country. We are a recently merged organisation previously known as 'SEPT' and 'NEP' and have achieved an 'Overall Good' CQC rating, with "Outstanding" for caring. We employ approximately 5,500 people and work with a wide range of partners 'Working to Improve Lives'. We are aspecialist mental health and community health services trust providing adult mental health services, older people's and young people's mental health services, substance misuse services, forensic services, learning disability services, and community health services. We are seeking a self-motivated foundation pharmacist (Agenda for Change Band 6) to join our friendly, growing and forward thinking pharmacy team at the Linden Centre in Chelmsford.