Job summary
Are you a pharmacist looking for new challenges in a senior role?
We are looking for a self-motivated and enthusiastic registered pharmacist to join our friendly pharmacy team. This post is full time, hours over five days, Monday to Friday. You will be based in Norwich. Your main role will be to work with the multidisciplinary team to provide a clinical pharmacy service to the in-patient wards, and clinical support to junior pharmacists and management of staff. You must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
Good communication, problem solving, prioritisation and organisational skills are essential.
***Note - previous candidates need not apply***
Main duties of the job
The post holder will;
1. Provide advanced clinical pharmacy and medicines related care to service users with mental illness or learning disabilities in inpatient and community settings.
2. Be involved in the provision of a clinical and responsible for the operational pharmacy service to a clinical team in a specified geographical area.
3. Be responsible for providing pharmacy and medicines related care to allocated teams to ensure medicines prescribed are safe, effective, optimised and appropriate.
4. Lead on service development and projects as required by the department/ service area, working with partner organisations / primary care.
5. Provide professional pharmacist support to the site you are based and mentor other pharmacists in the trust (including trainees) as required.
6. Undertake line management responsibility for pharmacy staff.
7. Have a responsibility to educate and develop the pharmacy and wider healthcare workforce as part of a teaching organisation.
8. Divide your time between operational management, hands-on service provision (clinical pharmacy provision to a number of wards/units) and medicines information service.
About us
Benefits of working for NSFT includes:-
9. NHS pension
10. Comprehensive in house & external training programmes
11. Career progression
12. Starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
13. Staff physio service
14. NHS discounts and many more.
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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**This post attracts a recruitment premium of £3,000 (pro-rata for part time roles). This is a one off payment with half paid on appointment and half paid after the completion of a satisfactory probation period (6 months). The premium is taxable. Please note that should you leave employment, or choose to move to an alternative post within the Trust that does not attract this recruitment premium, you will be required to reimburse all or some it, as follows: 100% of the value of the premium in the first 12 months; 50% of the value of the premium in the period 12 months to 2 years following appointment. Please note this recruitment premium is for external applicants only. Not applicable to newly qualified applicants **
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
15. Master's degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
16. Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
17. Postgraduate Diploma qualification
Desirable
18. Independent Prescriber or working towards an Independent Prescribing qualification.
19. Member of, or working towards, membership of the College of Mental Health Pharmacy Qualification
Experience
Essential
20. Postgraduate employment as a pharmacist
21. Specialist mental health medicines use
Desirable
22. Management of staff