Main area: Pharmacy
Grade Band: 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time / Part time (37.5 hours per week; Part time post available 22.5 hours per week)
Job ref: 351-CS2705-LG
Site: Pendleview
Town: Blackburn
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum, pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 16/03/2025 23:59
Our Vision is 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:
* Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
* Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
* 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. We believe 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.
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. You should also ensure that email addresses and telephone numbers are provided for your referees, to enable LSCft to contact them.
Job overview
Are you a highly motivated and enthusiastic pharmacist with a keen interest in working in Mental Health?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, self-motivated pharmacist to join the Pharmacy and Medicines Management Team as a clinical pharmacist. The Inpatient Pendleview Unit is a well-established MH unit within the Pennine network and based on the same site as the Royal Blackburn Hospital, with a total of 87 beds included on male treatment wards, female treatment wards, Old age psychiatry and a male Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit.
The Pendleview Unit is based on ‘safety by design’ to ensure that it can provide high quality care. The ethos of the unit is to provide therapeutic care which is empowering, person-centred and needs led, and focuses on promoting recovery and independence.
There is no current requirement to work on-call, Bank Holidays or weekends. Due to the location of various units, an ability and willingness to travel around Trust locations is required.
You will have current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
Main duties of the job
We are looking to recruit an experienced mental health pharmacist to join our friendly, innovative and supportive clinical pharmacy team. As the successful candidate you will be responsible for the delivery of a high quality, pro-active and patient focused clinical pharmacy service to the in-patient mental health unit. Key components of the role include:
* Clinical review of prescriptions and patient-orientated medication review
* Provision of specialist pharmaceutical advice to multi-disciplinary teams
* Involvement of patients in decisions about their medicines to support adherence and improve outcomes
* Potential to utilise Non-Medical prescribing skills within the role outline
* Opportunity to influence the development of services to improve patient care through service redesign
* Participation in clinical audit and service evaluation
* Supervision of junior pharmacy staff
* Contribution to the training and development of junior pharmacy team members and other members of the multi-disciplinary team
* Participation in the clinical supervision programme
* Input to the development of policies and procedures and treatment guidelines
* Contribute to initiatives to improve medicines safety
The Trust has implemented electronic prescribing and medicines administration across all inpatients in Lancashire and has a strong track record of innovation in Health Informatics. The successful applicant will have a keen interest in the use of technology in a health care setting.
Working for our organisation
The Clinical Pharmacy service is embedded in the culture of the organisation and should you wish to join our team you will become one of a large team of Clinical Pharmacists, Clinical Medicines Management Technicians and Pharmacy Assistants working across the Trust.
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working. We believe 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, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
It is desirable, however not essential that you have a postgraduate pharmacy qualification or equivalent experience, and post registration experience in mental health. A qualification as a Non-Medical prescriber would be desirable.
Please see attached the Job Description and Person Specification for more information about this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Masters/Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy
* Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
Skills
* Organisational skills
* Awareness of current issues
Experience
* Variety of clinical pharmacy experience
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Please be aware, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) when submitting an application is monitored and if you have used AI to generate an application, you are required to declare this on your application form. Failure to do so, may result in your application being withdrawn.
We want to highlight the importance of integrity and authenticity in your application form, and ask you to use AI tools responsibly to ensure your application form is a true reflection of your skills, knowledge and experiences.
Please ensure that you read the person specification attached below as your application will be measured against this document.
Applications from job share partners are welcome and other forms of flexible working will be considered for all posts.
For all posts which require a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check please be aware of the Disclosure and Barring Service Code of Practice, a copy of which is available by logging on to the DBS website. If the post is subject to DBS disclosure, a charge will be made to the successful candidate(s).
You are advised to consider applying for LSCft vacancies as soon as possible as in some instances vacancies are closed as soon as a sufficient number of applications have been received. If you are not invited to interview within three weeks of the closing date then please assume that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful, as it is not possible to contact all unsuccessful candidates.
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 (particularly those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion or belief or sexual orientation. Our goal is for the Trust to be truly representative of the communities we serve so we are particularly keen to receive applications from people in under-represented groups. If there is anything you’d like to discuss in relation to your application then please ask.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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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