Job summary
Employer heading
Community Mental Health Pharmacist
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ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job overview
We are excited to announce an opportunity to work within a novel pharmacy role within community mental health care. This role has been developed as part of East London Foundation NHS Trusts ambitious Community Transformation Programme, developed to redesign and improve the way mental health care services are delivered for our population.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will work across various multidisciplinary mental health neighbourhood teams in Tower Hamlets working to support service users in new models of care, with an aim to support medicines optimisation and safety. The post-holder will be responsible for delivering medicines consultations with service users, provision of medicines information and performing medication reviews. The post-holder will contribute towards projects revolving around psychotropic medicines to improve patient care and safety and deliver education and training for primary care colleagues to increase knowledge and confidence around psychotropic medications. There will be opportunities for non-medical prescribing. As this is a newly developed role, we are open to hearing your ideas and piloting these using quality improvement methodology.
We are looking for an experienced mental health, community or hospital pharmacist with a passion for improving access to, and quality of mental health care in the community setting, who can display innovation and bring ideas to extend the boundaries of the pharmacy profession.
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please for further information kindly refer to the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential criteria
- • Vocational Masters Degree in Pharmacy (equivalent)
- • Psychiatry qualification (or willing to work towards this)
- • Post registration training relevant to hospital pharmacy
- • Successful completion of pre-registration training
- • Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council and/or Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Desirable criteria
- • Working towards higher Degree/Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
- • Successful completion of short courses to the equivalent of a post graduate certificate
- • Prescribing Qualification (or working towards this)
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate medicine related information to mental health patients, carers and clinical staff
- • Previous experience in providing clinical mental health services.
- • Delivery of training and education
Desirable criteria
- • Staff management experience
- • Delivery of training and education
- • To have undertaken clinical audit
- • Previous evaluated experience of mentorship and training skills
- • Experience of developing a new service
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- • Clinical and critical appraisal skills
- • Able to influence prescribing
- • Demonstrates awareness of the clinical governance agenda
- • Communicates with medical, nursing and pharmacy staff in clear precise and appropriate manner.
- • To have an awareness of national and local priorities
- • The ability to identify and manage risks
- • Ability to evaluate own work
- • Enhances the quality of patient care
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of writing procedures, guidelines or protocols.
- • Identifies and implements best practice
- • Knowledge of Quality Improvement
- • Comfortable working
- • Can demonstrate innovation
- • Demonstrates a whole system patient focused approach
- • Manages difficult and ambiguous problems
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Annabel Ikwuakolam
- Job title
- Lead Community Transformation Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07435734003
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