Senior Mental Health Pharmacist - Initial Response Service

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Ensure the provision of a specialist clinical pharmacy service within a community mental health service, working as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team. As the Initial Response Service pharmacist, you will be the first point of contact for any medication advice and guidance from primary care colleagues, people who use services, and carers. You will support clinicians within the service with medicines management-related queries and improve the care of people with mental health issues through medicines optimisation.

Main duties of the job

Provide medicine-related advice and guidance to colleagues in primary care and medicines optimisation support to clinicians within the service.

Contribute to the patient assessment in relation to medicines optimisation and undertake medicines reconciliation as part of a 'trusted' assessment.

Deliver medicine optimisation interventions, including undertaking a non-medical prescribing role where appropriate.

Provide highly specialised advice and information on medicines to a variety of other services/agencies/organisations and carers both within and outside mental health services.

About us

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, believing 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.

Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Masters or Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy
• Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council of Great Britain
• Evidence of and commitment to continuing professional development

Knowledge

• Good clinical knowledge
• Awareness of current issues relevant to the profession and role

Skills

• Good written and verbal skills
• Organisational skills

Experience

• Previous experience working in mental health

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.