Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Inpatient Mental Health Services | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 23 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £50,952 - £57,349 per annum. There is a recuitment and retention premia of £4000 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 May 2024 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L14 3PJ |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6253655/350-TWS6094168-A |
Summary
Are you looking for a new challenge? Fancy joining a dynamic, forward-thinking, and patient-focussed team that is continuously striving to deliver excellent clinical pharmacy services?
We have fantastic opportunities across our mental health in-patient and secure and learning disability services, for experienced, enthusiastic, adaptable, highly self-motivated pharmacists with a passion for mental health to join our friendly and supportive teams.
Successful candidates will be responsible for leading, delivering and developing our mental health clinical pharmacy services. You will support multi-disciplinary teams to deliver high quality, safe and cost-effective pharmaceutical care for patients.
We are looking for proactive candidates with excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills and ability to work autonomously, build relationships, manage, and motivate a team.
You will not routinely work weekends or cover the on-call advisory service unless minimum thresholds are breached.
A recruitment premium applies to this post for new Trust employees. Successful candidates will receive £2,000 on joining and an additional £2,000 on completion of the first year of employment. Recruitment premia must be paid back in full if you leave the Trust within two years of starting.
To participate in the delivery of highly specialist clinical pharmacy services, ensuring that services meet professional standards and comply with relevant legislation.
To carry out medicines reconciliation, clinically checks and medication reviews to ensure the safe and effective use of medicines.
To actively participate and develop effective partnerships with other professions as part of a multi-disciplinary approach to medicines optimisation.
To undertake pharmaceutical care planning, utilising local trust guidance and national protocols.
To provide specialist information and advice on the safe and effective use of medicines to patients and their carers to support informed decision making and treatment adherence.
To ensure effective medication practices are developed and carried out consistently across mental health services, promoting medicines safety and reducing harm from medications.
To participate in clinical audit and practice research
To participate in training, supervision, mentoring and line management of colleagues
Refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the requirements of this post.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
1. To participate in the delivery of highly specialist clinical pharmaceutical and medical
supply services, ensuring that services meet the standards set by the General
Pharmaceutical Council and relevant legislation.
2. To act as the advanced clinical pharmacist for inpatient mental health, specifically
clozapine services, within the medicines management team.
3. To act as the trust’s point of contact for pharmaceutical issues within inpatient mental
health services.
4. To be responsible for leading, delivering and developing comprehensive clinical pharmacy
and supply services to the trust’s inpatient mental health services.
5. To be responsible for the development and implementation of inpatient clozapine
initiation services, including the implementation of systems and processes for the ongoing monitoring of patients’ prescribed clozapine in the inpatient setting, ensuring
streamlined processes are in place for escalation.
6. To ensure that effective medicines management practices are developed and carried out
consistently within all inpatient mental health services within the trust, to promote
medicines safety and reduce risk of harm from medications.
7. To develop evidence-based treatment protocols for use within inpatient mental health
and clozapine services.
8. To facilitate the implementation of local and national guidelines relating to inpatient
mental health and clozapine services.
9. To contribute to the development of new policies and procedures relating to inpatient
mental health and clozapine services, the modification of existing policies and procedures,
and their implementation.
10. To undertake clinics with direct patient contact, including medication reviews and home
visits.
11. Please refer to JD for more information.
This advert closes on Sunday 12 May 2024