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Joining #TeamNELFT means you'll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We're CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.
Job overview
We are excited to be able to offer a post for an experienced pharmacist to work with our children and young people's services in Barking and Dagenham. This post would appeal to those who are ambitious and would like to develop their service development and leadership skills in a supportive environment. The post holder will work closely with the Clinical Lead Nurse and consultant pharmacists in NELFT as part of a multidisciplinary team, addressing the needs of service users.
The post holder will be responsible for managing patients across Barking and Dagenham as part of the Emotional Wellbeing Mental Health Services (EWMHS), 0-19 and neurodevelopmental services to children and young people in the geography.
Successful applicants will be required to ensure safe and effective medicines management processes within the Barking and Dagenham Directorate in addition to other duties specified within their job description. This will include compliance with regulatory medicines management standards, implementation of medicines safety alerts, and provision of specialist expert pharmaceutical information and advice to multidisciplinary teams (e.g., nurses, school nurses, health visitors and consultants) particularly within children and young people services and where applicable to others involved in a patient's care.
Main duties of the job
* Take the senior clinical pharmacist lead role for children and young people services across the Barking and Dagenham integrated care directorate.
* Cover some adult/specialist services, but its focus is on children and young people's services.
* Provide specialist expert pharmaceutical information and advice to multidisciplinary teams (e.g., nurses, school nurses, health visitors and consultants) particularly within children and young people services and where applicable to others involved in a patient's care.
* Lead on and provide complex medicines management advice and specialist direction as well as regular clinical pharmacy input into children respite/residential facilities.
* Focus on outcomes delivering improved benefits and value for patients through improved patient experience, increased patient safety, medication reviews, and mitigating of risks related to medicines.
* Support and contribute to clinical audits.
* Develop and deliver the pharmacy relevant training packages to assist medical, nursing and pharmacy staff across their area.
* Work with quality and patient safety teams to review quality and risk management issues related to pharmacy and medicine management.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* GPHC registration
* Clinical diploma or equivalent
* Non-medical prescriber (V300)
* NVQ level 2 or equivalent literacy and numeracy
Experience
Essential criteria
* Minimum 5 years post-registration experience, with 2 yrs relevant as clinical pharmacist working in MDT
* Experience of working with children and young people
* Awareness and experience of safeguarding children
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Demonstrates the Trust values
* Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
* Demonstrates leadership skills
* Computer skills (Microsoft Office etc.)
* Awareness of safeguarding policies
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
* A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
* A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work-life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers.
* Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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