Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
About
Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust provides physical and mental health care, learning disability and adult social care services across Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, Shropshire, and Telford & Wrekin. In addition, we provide services on a wider regional and national basis including perinatal, eating disorder and forensic services. We deliver out-of-area sexual health services, and our Inclusion service offers psychological and drug & alcohol services, in the community, and in prisons, and has contracts across the country.
As an organisation we serve a population of 1.5 million and currently employ around 9000 members of staff.
We have a wide range of exciting opportunities for people looking to work in a truly integrated NHS organisation. By joining MPFT you will become part of a team who are empowered and supported to deliver care in a way which is consistent with our values:
* Putting people at the heart of what we do
* Empowering people to improve care and wellbeing
* Delivering better health, better care in partnership
Key details
Location
Site: Redwoods Centre
Town: Shrewsbury
Postcode: SY3 8DS
Major / Minor Region: Staffordshire
Contract type & working pattern
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
Main area: Pharmacy
Job overview
To ensure patients receive seamless pharmaceutical care both throughout their admission to hospital and following discharge into assigned community mental health teams. This post involves being part of a team of specialist clinical pharmacists in mental health, playing an active role in inpatient multidisciplinary teams and a significant amount of patient/carer contact. As this is a specialist clinical post in mental health the post-holder will have, or is willing to study for, a postgraduate qualification in Psychiatric Therapeutics in order to be able to provide a specialist clinical pharmacist service.
In addition, the post carries shared responsibility for supporting local education and training plans, clinical audit around medicines use, provision of Medicines Information Service, advice to community based teams and local oversight of a small number of Clinical Trials.
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Primarily a Specialist mental health clinical role:
* Providing an inpatient clinical pharmacist service to nominated wards within Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This will require working across a range of mental health services including; older people services, mental health adults of working age, learning disabilities, specialist and forensic services.
* Visiting allocated wards to regularly review medicines cards and professionally check prescriptions, ensuring compliance with UK and European medicines legislation, SPCs, national guidance, MPFT policies, procedures, formulary and guidelines.
* Providing pharmaceutical input at multidisciplinary inpatient and community team meetings and rapid review meetings, ensuring follow up and accurate completion of technician-led medicines reconciliation and where necessary liaising with relevant inpatient and community teams to undertake patient medication histories and devise pharmaceutical care plans.
* Providing practical, high quality, evidence based information on medicines to staff and ensuring medicines information provided to patients and carers is meaningful.
* Supporting the Self-Administration of Medicines scheme on designated wards, ensuring it operates both safely and effectively.
* Providing pharmacist support to the dispensary for professionally checking prescriptions, responding to medicines information queries and supporting accuracy checking technicians in accuracy checking dispensed medicines as required.
Working for our organisation
By joining Team MPUFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by:
* Supporting your career development and progression.
* Excellent NHS Pension scheme.
* Generous maternity, paternity, adoption leave.
* Options for flexible working.
* Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional annual leave.
* Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources.
* If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients.
* Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate.
* Salary sacrifice car – fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates.
* Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k.
* Free car parking at all trust sites.
* Free flu vaccination every year.
* Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met).
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical service delivery
* Deliver a high quality, patient-centred clinical pharmacist service to inpatient wards within MPFT.
* Ensure patients receive seamless pharmaceutical care through transitions of MPFT care.
* Visit allocated wards and community team bases to regularly review medicines cards and professionally check prescriptions, thereby ensuring compliance with UK and European medicines legislation, SPCs, national guidance, MPFT policies, procedures, formulary and guidelines.
* Provide specialist advice and information about medicines and their use to medical, nursing and other healthcare professionals, thereby contributing to their safe, effective and economical use.
* Provide pharmaceutical input at multi-disciplinary team meetings, rapid review meetings and community team meetings where necessary undertaking patient medication histories and devising pharmaceutical care plans.
* Provide specialist advice and information about medicines and their use to patients, carers and the public.
* Conduct regular 1:1 consultations about medicines with patients and carers.
* Promote the concept of ‘shared decision making’ and patient choice at all times.
* Ensure the follow up and accurate completion of technician-led medicines reconciliation in a timely manner following admission to hospital in line with the MPFT policy for Medicines Reconciliation.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early*
Applicant requirements
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Hold current registration as a Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
* Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent pharmacy degree.
Desirable criteria
* Postgraduate Certificate in Mental Health Therapeutics (or willing to undertake).
Experience
Essential criteria
* Evidence of working as part of a clinical team.
* Validated post-registration experience working as a clinical pharmacist.
Desirable criteria
* 1-2 years experience in hospital pharmacy.
* Validated experience within mental health.
Further details / informal visits contact
Name: Rebecca Downer
Job title: Deputy Service Lead Pharmacist
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 01743 210007
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