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Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - NMP and Later Life and Memory Team
| Posting date: | 10 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £58,972.00 to £68,525.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £58972.00 - £68525.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 May 2024 |
| Location: | Warrington, WA2 8WA |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9350-24-0898 |
Summary
Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of a range of procedures relating to dementia, and practices, including differentia diagnosis. To work autonomously as an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist/Practitioner to provide effective care to individuals and groups, managing a caseload of patients within LLAMS delivering individualised direct patient care. Demonstrate a critical understanding of their broader level of responsibility and autonomy and limits of their own competence and professional scope of practice. To act as the Trusts point of contact for pharmaceutical issues within community mental health services of the LLAMS Team. To be responsible for leading, and delivering an advanced level of clinical expertise and pharmaceutical care, within the LLAMS, to undertake advanced health assessment, from patients initial presentation, clinical assessment, requesting and interpreting of necessary diagnostic clinical investigations, interpretation of information leading to diagnosis of patients with dementia, and formulating treatment and management plans on behalf of the Trust, all of which require interpretation, judgement, and comparisons involving highly complex facts or situations, in analysis. To be responsible for the development and implementation of post diagnostic monitoring and biological, psychosocial and social care of patients, their family and carers within LLAMS. To ensure that effective clinical and Medicines Management practices are developed and carried out consistently within LLAMS community mental health services within the Trust, to promote advanced clinical practice, medicines safety and reduce risk of harm from both mental health and physical health medications. Team/Locality Pharmacist Manager for Inpatient Mental Health Band 8b Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - NMP and Later Life and Memory Team Community Mental Health Band 8b Specialist band 8a, 7 and rotational band 6 pharmacists Consultant Psychiatrist LLAMS Head Of Clinical Pharmacy Services Mental Health Band 8C 06/09/2023 To develop evidence-based treatment protocols for use within the LLAMS community mental health and the Trusts older adult inpatient wards. To facilitate the implementation of local pathways and national guidelines relating to dementia for the Trust, and External stakeholders such as Universities. To Lead if necessary and contribute to the development of new policies and procedures relating to dementia and the LLAMS, the modification of existing policies and procedures, and their implementation. To undertake clinics with direct patient contact face to face e.g., house visit, clinic, Digital e.g., Teams, around anywhere and Verbal e.g., telephone, including clinical assessment, requesting and interpreting clinical information, assimilating diagnosis, delivery of diagnosis, leading on treatment plans, including mental health and physical medication reviews, providing an expert response to fitness to drive requests and post diagnostic follow up considering social, and psychological follow ups in providing high level of patient and Carer/Family care. The post holder can seek clinical supervision or advice from the Consultant Psychiatrist when needed for any complex or high-risk cases. To actively initiate and take part in practice research relating to specialist area of practice, which may lead to publication or to the presentation of papers or posters at conferences and workshops