Community Mental Health Pharmacist

Job summary

Clinical Pharmacist: Community Mental Health - Band 8a

37.5 hrs per week, permanent role

Are you looking for an innovative role, whilst also maintaining a good work/life balance, with no weekend working or on-call work required? An opportunity to work within a caring organisation? Look no further!

The primary role of this specialist post is to contribute to the provision of a comprehensive, high quality clinical pharmacy service to clinical teams within the Coventry and Warwickshire area. You will work as part of a well-established and respected Medicines Management team, whose focus is to develop innovative, patient-centred services and roles . No dispensary work is involved.

Main duties of the job

For more information on this role please see the attached support information. This will give you a better overview of the job role and requirements.

To actively contribute to and participate in the provision of Safe, High Quality, Timely, Patient Facing Clinical Pharmacy Services within the Partnership Trust, as part of the Trust's Medicines Management Team

To participate as an active member of specific ward/unit/clinical teams, and support medicines management staff in their roles and other healthcare professionals

To provide expert pharmaceutical and clinical advice on all medicines and pharmaceutical related matters

To develop and participate in the delivery of education and training sessions to patients/carers and other healthcare staff

To support the implementation of the Medicines Optimisation strategy as part of the Medicines Management Team

To participate in local audit work and the collection of clinical activity data to support service developments

About us

Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership trust received an overall rating of Good by the CQC. The CQC rated the Trust for having well-led, caring, responsive and effective mental health, learning disability and community health services.

Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.

Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services, we see on average around 5,000 patients every day.