Advanced Clinical Mental Health Pharmacist -£3,000 Recruitment Premium

at  Norfolk Suffolk Foundation Trust

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust provides child and adult mental health services, learning disability, wellbeing, older people’s and eating disorder services across Norfolk and Suffolk.
At any one time, around 23,000 people in Norfolk and Suffolk are receiving care and attention from the Trust. We believe in whole life care - seeing people in the context of their whole lives, understanding the importance of good physical health, friends, family, spirituality, culture, home, work, education and a sense of purpose and achievement to experience good mental health.
Nearly 3,800 full and part-time practitioners care for our service users in hospitals, in the community and in their own homes, whilst an additional 1,400+ staff provide non-clinical support, including cleaning, catering, delivering supplies, ward administration, information technology, human resources and financial services.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and want to reflect the diversity of our local communities within our teams. We welcome applications from all talented individuals with the relevant qualifications, skills, knowledge and experience.
We are committed to delivering quality driven mental health services. Every individual makes a valuable contribution. We are proud of our staff who have been commended for the care they provide. Do you value working positively, respectfully and together? If so, we’d love you to join us!
We will consider flexible working arrangements for our roles, please indicate in your application if this is something you require

JOB DESCRIPTION/PERSON SPECIFICATION

Please read the job description/person specification carefully and ensure your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience needed.

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

ROLE SUMMARY

Norfolk and Suffolk are working with Primary Care Networks (PCNs) for the redesign and transformation of primary and community mental health care to develop and deliver a new service paradigm in line with the NHSE community mental health transformation agenda.
The Advanced Clinical Mental Health Pharmacist has a key role in supporting the integration work to implement the transformation by developing and providing medicines optimisation services to people in Norwich.
The Advanced Clinical Mental Health Pharmacist will be positioned as part of a wider Primary Mental Health Service between the Norwich Community Mental Health teams and a cohort of PCNs to provide clinical services directly to patients and service users as well as supporting a system approach to mental health medicines optimisation and management.
This role will also involve working with the NSFT pharmacy teams to educate and support other pharmacists within the wider system.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Provide an expert mental health clinical pharmacy service to patients and service users within an geographical area of Norfolk to include:

• Identification of appropriate cohorts of patients for medication review within the North Norfolk area including patients on complex medication regimes and possibly unsafe high-risk medication regimes.
• Support individual patients to reduce medicines associated risk and support structured deprescribing of any medicines that are no longer deemed necessary for individual patients.
• Undertake independent prescribing as appropriate for individual patients.
• Participation in multidisciplinary team meetings or case conferences to identify medication problems and provide advice.
• Conducting medication education sessions for patients and carers, either on a one-to-one or group basis.
• Interpreting medicines information to provide advice for individual circumstances.
• Giving prescribing advice to medical staff and non-medical prescribers especially when complex problems arise with medication combinations and doses.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

* This post attracts a recruitment premium of £3,000. This is a one-off payment with half paid on appointment and half paid after the completion of a satisfactory probation period (6 months). The premium is taxable. Please note that should you leave employment, or choose to move to an alternative post within the Trust that does not attract this recruitment premium, you will be required to reimburse all or some it, as follows: 100% of the value of the premium in the first 12 months; 50% of the value of the premium in the period 12 months to 2 years following appointment. *

Benefits included with this role are:

• NHS pension
• a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• career progression
• starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more.