Specialist Clinical Pharmacist in Mental Health
- Stafford, Staffordshire
- £47,810-54,710 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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.
- Supporting your career development and progression
- Excellent NHS Pension scheme
- Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days)
- 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 vaccinations every year
- Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
- Deliver a high quality, patient-centred clinical pharmacist service to inpatient MH 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.
- Deliver a high quality, patient-centred clinical pharmacist service to inpatient MH 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.
- Holds current registration as a Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council UK
- Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent pharmacy degree
- Postgraduate Certificate in Mental Health Therapeutics (or willing to undertake)
- Evidence of working as part of a clinical team
- Validated post-registration experience working as a clinical pharmacist
- 1-2 years' experience in hospital pharmacy
- Validated experience within mental health
- Holds current registration as a Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council UK
- Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent pharmacy degree
- Postgraduate Certificate in Mental Health Therapeutics (or willing to undertake)
- Evidence of working as part of a clinical team
- Validated post-registration experience working as a clinical pharmacist
- 1-2 years' experience in hospital pharmacy
- Validated experience within mental health