Advanced Community Mental Health Pharmacist (West)
Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Are you an experienced mental health specialist Pharmacist looking for a unique opportunity? EPUT Pharmacy are looking for a pharmacist with a proven track record supporting patients with severe mental illness (SMI) to join our dynamic and enthusiastic team.
The NHS Mental Health Implementation Plan identified the need for additional specialist mental health pharmacists in the community to support patients with SMI. As part of our restructured pharmacy department, we have a part-time opportunity for an experienced mental health specialist to join our established team of Advanced Community Mental Health Pharmacists. This is an exciting role designed to support patients with SMI live fulfilling independent lives in the community. Joining our team will provide you with opportunities to undertake further study and help support your professional development.
This post is suitable for hybrid working with time split between your trust base and home.
Main duties of the job
This post is based within a multi-disciplinary team of professionals that accept GP referrals, and have the skill and knowledge to offer expert clinical advice and personalise medication plans in real time, to keep patients well. The role requires more than undertaking medication reviews, although that will be a starting point for some patients on complex regimens. You will be expected to forge strong professional relationships with specialist nurses, psychologists, and consultant psychiatrists. This role requires a zeal for mental health and a genuine drive to help patients; you will be working to provide practical clinical solutions and change patients' lives for the better.
Although community-based, these posts form an important pillar of the EPUT pharmacy department. At times, the post holders will need to work on our inpatient wards in order to maintain their expertise and contacts in the field. For the same reasons, supervising junior colleagues and a commitment to providing responsible pharmacist duties plus out of hours services are implicit. Post holders should be registered with the GPhC as independent prescribers and be able to demonstrate their clinical credentials.
Job responsibilities
Responsible for leading and delivering a specialist clinical pharmacy service within Primary Care Networks in West Essex, to support the medicines-related care of patients, address and improve existing pathways in mental health, participate in training, education and research as required, and support robust medicines optimisation across the interface.
* Develop, promote and implement high quality, evidence-based, and cost-effective use of medicines at the interface, in a manner that maximises the benefits of medicines to patients and service users whilst minimising clinical, legal and financial risks.
* Support and influence PCN Pharmacists and GP-based Clinical Pharmacists to ensure the pharmaceutical needs of patients with mental illness are met through partnership working at the interface.
* Participate as an active member of clinical teams in West Essex to support the safe and effective use of medicines.
* Communicate highly complex clinical pharmacy advice on the management of patients with mental illness in order to maximise benefit and minimise risk in relation to medicines.
* Develop, promote and implement tools within the interface that support the safe use of psychotropic medicines.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
* Master's degree in Pharmacy or equivalent.
* General Pharmaceutical Council registration.
* PG certificate/diploma in mental health pharmacy or equivalent experience.
* Member of the RPS / Faculty membership.
* Independent prescriber / willing to work towards.
Experience
* Post registration experience in mental health.
* Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
* Experience of clinical audit.
* Experience of managing quality and cost-effectiveness initiatives.
* Post registration experience in primary care.
* Experience of managing staff.
Knowledge / Skills
* Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
* Evidence of CPD.
* Evidence of planning and delivering training.
* Evidence of writing procedures, guidelines etc.
Personal Qualities
* Driving license / access to a car for work.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
£53,755 to £60,504 a year pro rata for part-time
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working, Home or remote working, Compressed hours.
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