Specialist Mental Health Pharmacist

at  East London NHS Foundation Trust

Are you an enthusiastic, motivated and committed pharmacist and have a passion for developing your skills and experience within a mental health setting?
If so, we would like you to join our Mental Health pharmacy team as a Specialist Mental Health Pharmacist. You will provide Pharmacy and Medicines management services to all Inpatient Mental health and Specialist services.

VISIT OUR RECRUITMENT FAIR AT CHARTER HOUSE IN LUTON:

Date : 20/05/2024
Time : 09:00am – 3:30pm (Come prepared to be interviewed on the day)
Candidates need to register for either the morning or afternoon registration. For candidates with an interview invite, they will need to arrive 30 minutes before their scheduled time. Failure to register during the registration period will mean inability to take part in same-day interview sessions.
Morning registration: 9:00 AM -10:00 AM
Afternoon registration: 12:30 PM- 13:30 PM
Address : Charter House, Alma St, Luton, LU1 2PJ
Role : Specialist Mental Health Pharmacist
As a Trust, we value our staff and offer a wide range of benefits;
NHS Discounts (show your ID at various Food, Drink, Health & Beaut & Shopping outlets)
Cycle to Work Schemes
Car Lease Schemes
2 days Additional Leave (if no sickness absence)
Learning and Development opportunities – CP

It is imperative that the successful candidate is able to show compassion and respect for people with mental health illness and be driven to improve their care through the safe and effective use of medicines.

• The successful post holder will be given the opportunity to further develop their competence through Post Graduate Certificate/Diplomas and Non medical Prescribing where appropriate*

The post holder will be expected to work with the Clinical Lead/Lead Pharmacist to develop clinical pharmacy services within the Luton and Bedfordshire directorates.
They will be responsible for implementing and monitoring the Trust’s clinical pharmacy standards as well as ensuring the clinical service is of high quality and patient-focused.
They will identify gaps and problem areas in the service and will use Quality Improvement methodology to make positive changes.
The postholder will be required to work closely with the clinical lead ensuring that stock control of medicines on the wards is accurate and that cost effective measures are taken to improve medicine use across the inpatient wards.
The post holder will also be expected to manage clozapine supply for inpatient and service users in the community.
East London Foundation Trust (ELFT), Our dynamic and creative Trust pharmacy team provides pharmacy services to a wide range of community and inpatient service users in Newham, Luton & Bedfordshire, City & Hackney and Tower Hamlets. These include children and young people to adults of working age, older adults, perinatal, learning disabilities, community health services and forensic patients. We provide a broad range of clinical pharmacy services to our inpatient wards and are supported by trained medicines management technicians.
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.
In this post, you will join a small team of Pharmacists and Medicines Management Technicians, working dynamically with the wider pharmacy team to provide a medicine service to a wide range of community and inpatient service users in Luton and Bedfordshire. There will be an expectation to work closely with the lead pharmacist in identifying gaps in service delivery alongside developing medicine optimisation and deprescribing iniatives.
Please for further information kindly refer to the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy

Please refer the Job description for details