Band 8a
Main area: Senior Mental Health Pharmacist
Grade: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week (Job share could be considered.)
Job ref: 351-CS2516-AT-M
Site: East Barn, Pathfinders Drive, Town Lancaster
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 12/01/2025 23:59
Our Vision: To provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community-based services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated mental health, learning disability and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:
1. Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults, including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
2. Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
3. Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices, and volunteers.
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust supports 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, home/remote working, and flexi-time.
Job Responsibilities
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.
Key responsibilities include:
1. Providing medicine-related advice and guidance to colleagues in primary care and medicines optimisation support to clinicians within the service.
2. Contributing to patient assessment in relation to medicines optimisation and undertaking medicines reconciliation as part of a ‘trusted’ assessment.
3. Delivering medicine optimisation interventions, including undertaking a non-medical prescribing role where appropriate.
4. Providing highly specialised advice and information on medicines to a variety of other services/agencies/organisations and carers both within and outside mental health services.
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 communication skills
* Strong organisational skills
Experience
* Previous experience working in mental health
Please note that further communication from Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCft) will normally be to the email address given on the application form. Ensure that email addresses and telephone numbers are provided for your referees, to enable LSCft to contact them.
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LSCft is committed to celebrating difference as an asset and we know that recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds helps to create a more flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from people regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
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