Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Mental Health

NHS; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000

Job description

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

To ensure patients receive seamless pharmaceutical care both throughout their admission to hospital and following discharge into assigned community mental health teams. This post involves being part of a team of specialist clinical pharmacists in mental health, playing an active role in inpatient multidisciplinary teams and a significant amount of patient/carer contact. As this is a specialist clinical post in mental health the post-holder will have, or is willing to study for, a postgraduate qualification in Psychiatric Therapeutics in order to be able to provide a specialist clinical pharmacist service.

In addition the post carries shared responsibility for supporting local education and training plans, clinical audit around medicines use, provision of Medicines Information Service, advice to community based teams and local oversight of a small number of Clinical Trials.

Main duties of the job

Primarily a Specialist mental health clinical role:

• Providing an inpatient clinical pharmacist service to nominated wards within Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This will require working across a range of mental health services including older people services, mental health adults of working age, learning disabilities, specialist and forensic services.
• Visiting allocated wards to regularly review medicines cards and professionally check prescriptions, ensuring compliance with UK and European medicines legislation, SPCs, national guidance, MPFT policies, procedures, formulary and guidelines.
• Providing pharmaceutical input at multidisciplinary inpatient and community team meetings and rapid review meetings, ensuring follow up and accurate completion of technician-led medicines reconciliation and where necessary liaising with relevant inpatient and community teams to undertake patient medication histories and devise pharmaceutical care plans.
• Providing practical, high quality, evidence based information on medicines to staff and ensuring medicines information provided to patients and carers is meaningful.
• Supporting the Self-Administration of Medicines scheme on designated wards, ensuring it operates both safely and effectively.
• Providing pharmacist support to the dispensary for professionally checking prescriptions, responding to medicines information queries and supporting accuracy checking technicians in accuracy checking dispensed medicines as required.

About us

By joining Team MPUFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by:

• Supporting your career development and progression.
• Options for flexible working.
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional annual leave.
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources.
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients.
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate.
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates.
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k.
• Free car parking at all trust sites.
• Free flu vaccination every year.
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met).

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Job responsibilities

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Deliver a high quality, patient-centred clinical pharmacist service to inpatient wards within MPFT.
• Ensure patients receive seamless pharmaceutical care through transitions of MPFT care.
• Visit allocated wards and community team bases to regularly review medicines cards and professionally check prescriptions, thereby ensuring compliance with UK and European medicines legislation, SPCs, national guidance, MPFT policies, procedures, formulary and guidelines.
• Provide specialist advice and information about medicines and their use to medical, nursing and other healthcare professionals, thereby contributing to their safe, effective and economical use.
• Provide pharmaceutical input at multi-disciplinary team meetings, rapid review meetings and community team meetings where necessary undertaking patient medication histories and devising pharmaceutical care plans.
• Provide specialist advice and information about medicines and their use to patients, carers and the public.
• Conduct regular 1:1 consultations about medicines with patients and carers.
• Promote the concept of shared decision making and patient choice at all times.
• Ensure the follow up and accurate completion of technician-led medicines reconciliation in a timely manner following admission to hospital in line with the MPFT policy for Medicines Reconciliation.

*We reserve the right to close this vacancy early*

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Hold current registration as a Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent pharmacy degree.
• Postgraduate Certificate in Mental Health Therapeutics (or willing to undertake).

Experience

• Evidence of working as part of a clinical team.
• Validated post-registration experience working as a clinical pharmacist.
• 1-2 years experience in hospital pharmacy.
• Validated experience within 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.