A Vacancy at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
In conjunction with the Head of Pharmacy, Mental Health Services, deliver, manage and develop a clinical pharmacy service to Adult Mental Health (AMH) Community Mental Health Teams (CMHT) within the Mental Health Care Group. This includes Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) teams, Local Mental Health Teams (LMHT) and Crisis Resolution Home Treatment Teams (CRHTT). This involves leading a team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians working in AMH CMHTs.
To undertake the duties of Independent Prescribing, ensuring compliance with Trust policy and to maintain appropriate skills and competency in accordance with guidance set out by professional regulatory bodies.
To contribute to the development and delivery of multidisciplinary training in Pharmacy/Medicines Optimisation matters across the Trust.
To support the Head of Pharmacy, Mental Health Services and Education and Training Leads in the development and delivery of education sessions and experiences to pharmacy undergraduates.
To act as the lead for Pharmacist Prescribing and Advanced Clinical Practice. To support the implementation and ongoing development of this agenda in collaboration with the Trust Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP) & Non-Medical Prescribing (NMP) Lead and others.
#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.
We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.
The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.
The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment
To ensure the provision of clinical pharmacy services and to identify, develop and implement practice research, audit and other projects, to ensure that the departmental cost improvement and quality targets are met.
Deliver, manage and develop the provision of the clinical pharmacy service to AMH CMHT; thus facilitating the provision of a high quality and cost-effective pharmaceutical care service to patients and other service users.
To provide pharmaceutical input at multidisciplinary team reviews, take drug histories and devise patient-specific pharmaceutical care plans where necessary.
To participate in the development and implementation of new ways of working and extended roles (e.g. ACP and NMP) for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. This may involve acting as a Designated Prescribing Practitioner (DPP) for pharmacists.
To participate as a mentor and assessor for the pharmacy staff undertaking the clinical diploma or equivalent postgraduate training programme. This will involve regular accompanied visits and in completing assessments of the student’s progress.
To act as a line manager for band 8A lead pharmacists for Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) and LMHT; as well as a small number of pharmacists and or pharmacy technicians working in AMH CMHTs.
To participate in and develop a programme of training for healthcare professionals - including medical staff (including students) on pharmaceutical matters.
To provide training sessions for service users and carers on medication.
To provide specialist medicines information and advice to all healthcare staff, and service users and carers – including primary care colleagues via the Pharmacy Advisory Line on a rota basis
To provide appropriate pharmacy input to the second opinion service under the terms of Section 58 of the Mental Health Act Regulations controlling consent to treatment.
Establish and develop strong and effective links with all staff within the Trust, in order to maintain and develop the contribution of pharmacy to cost-effective, safe and efficient prescribing and utilisation of medicines.
To contribute to initiatives, including the development of treatment and drug usage guidelines that will provide positive clinical and financial outcomes.
Ensure that agreed local and national guidelines, policies and protocols are affected at ward and clinic level via the clinical pharmacy team.
Liaise with individual consultants regarding drug-prescribing issues within their specialty to ensure maximum benefit in the treatment of patients, in-line with local and national guidelines.
Develop close working relationships with the medical and nursing staff in order to ensure that pharmacists are integral members of the clinical team.
Within care units, actively promote and implement relevant decisions of Trust and Care Group Medicines Optimisation Groups. Prepare submissions for the Trust and Care Group Medicines Optimisation Groups when required.
To provide professional support to the dispensary on a rota basis, including validation of new prescriptions, checking of dispensing operations performed by pharmacy staff and undertaking occasional dispensing tasks as necessary.
To have complete professional responsibility for safety and efficacy of all medicines a patient is taking whenever a patient’s prescription chart is reviewed in a team or in the dispensary, using relevant information to hand.
The post holder is responsible for recording any clinical information generated as a result of their clinical activities, e.g. writing in patient’s notes, annotating prescription charts and written information for medical staff and the data entry of medicines information questions and answers on the pharmacy database.
To prioritise workload and meet deadlines, particularly when under pressure.
The post holder must ensure that pharmaceutical work conforms to legal and professional requirements, procedures, clinical guidelines, any standard operating procedures and recognised good practice.
To undertake all scheduled mandatory training (including information governance) required for the role.
To keep professionally up-to-date at all times, and to be actively aware of national, local and Trust-wide issues so as to ensure safe and effective delivery of services, and to meet the General Pharmaceutical Council standards for continuing professional development so as to maintain professional registration.
To ensure that personal pharmacy practice is in line with Code of Ethics of the General Pharmaceutical Council.
Achieve team objectives, and personal objectives agreed during the PAD (Performance Appraisal and Development) with Line Manager.
Act as a role model for all pharmacy staff practicing within the Trust, to ensure that all staff aspire to provide a consistent and high-quality standard of service. This will also contribute to the development of a departmental culture that is in line with the values and organisational culture of the organisation.
Effectively supervise and direct the work of appropriate staff where necessary, in order to ensure that work is accurate, appropriate and timely.
When necessary, effectively deputise for the Head of Pharmacy, Mental Health Services Care Group, on appropriate multidisciplinary committees, working groups, and in general operational issues, in order to ensure consistency in pharmacy input at an appropriate level.
To participate in late duty, weekend and Bank Holiday working in accordance with departmental rotas, in order to fulfill contractual obligations, and to support the on-call pharmacy service in order to maintain the departmental commitment to a 24-hour service.
To accept any other responsibilities and undertake any other duties, as may be reasonably requested by the Chief Pharmacist, in order to fulfill the needs of the service.
In conjunction with the Heads of Pharmacy, contribute to the development, maintenance and monitoring of a high quality, cost effective clinical pharmacy service to the Trust, and contribute to the development of the local pharmacy and medicines optimisation strategy.
To act as a Trust representative for the Nottinghamshire Area Prescribing Committee.
This advert closes on Thursday 13 Mar 2025
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