We are looking for a pharmacist to join our specialist mental health pharmacy team as a mental health clinical pharmacist. Early career pharmacists who are yet to achieve a postgraduate diploma (or equivalent experience) will be considered for this post on a band development basis.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
- Evidence of continuing professional development to comply with GPhC requirements.
- Experience working in mental health pharmacy is helpful but not essential to the role as full training will be provided.
- Able to work alone and unsupervised.
- Able to organise and prioritise own workload.
- Effective oral and written communication with colleagues, staff and patients.
- Ability to write reports and make and deliver presentations to a range of colleagues in various settings.
- Intermediate competence in standard range of IT programs.
- Concentration and accuracy required for clinical validation and accuracy checking prescriptions and performing calculations.
- Manipulation of materials for the accurate dispensing of prescriptions including preparing aids and demonstrating devices to help patients manage their medicines.
- This post will require travel to wards and units across Gloucestershire.
Additional contact: If you would like to arrange a visit or a chat please phone 0300 422 6289 and speak to any of the team.
The post holder will support patients and their families by providing advice about the actions and use of medication, optimising treatment, providing information and liaising with acute and other care providers to ensure seamless transfer of care.
- They will be a clinical specialist in this area and where appropriate, an independent prescribing role may be undertaken.
- To contribute to good physical health wellbeing of patients by providing expert advice and performing interventions to improve physical health.
- To deliver a comprehensive clinical pharmacy and medicines management service to patients under the care of GHC and to the multidisciplinary teams responsible for their care.
- To support pharmacy staff to deliver an effective dispensing and supply service.
- To promote safe, rational, efficacious and cost-effective use of medicines.
- Undertake (with training, support and supervision from the GSQIA) patient-focused improvement projects.
- This post has an emergency duty commitment (on call) covering the acute trust Gloucestershire Hospitals NHSFT Pharmacy.
- This post has a commitment for weekend and bank holiday working on a rota basis.
- Candidates who are yet to achieve a postgraduate diploma (or equivalent experience) will be considered for this post. A development plan would be agreed to gain this qualification. Banding will be reflective of level of qualification/experience.
Mon-Fri 8:30-4:30 (plus weekend working and EDC as per rota)
We take pride in placing people at the centre of everything we do, working together as a united team. Driven by a shared ambition to continually grow, develop, and learn, we recognise and value every contribution. By combining our experience and skills, we not only support our vibrant, diverse communities, but also support one another.
With a team of over 9,000 employees, we are proud to be the largest employer in Gloucestershire and rank among the top 10 largest Trusts in the South West region. By joining our Trust, you will benefit from an excellent package that includes exclusive benefits, flexible working opportunities and the chance to gain valuable experience in one of our innovative hospitals. As well as generous annual leave allowance, access to the excellent NHS pension scheme, competitive bank rates, discounts at local shops and restaurants, access to two on-site nurseries, discounted public transport, reward and recognition and a range of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.
The GHNHSFT pharmacy department provides the pharmacy services to the local mental health trust (GHC) under a service level agreement. This post is based within the specialist mental health pharmacy team (approx 20 staff) which is part of the wider pharmacy department.
Clinical Pharmacy Services to Inpatient Wards and Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs):
- Be responsible and accountable for providing a clinical pharmacy service to inpatient wards and community teams:
- Ensure that designated ward and team bases are visited by a pharmacist at agreed intervals.
- Regularly attend and contribute to multidisciplinary team meetings
- Proactively review, rationalise and optimise patients’ medications.
- Review all prescriptions regularly, ensuring adherence to legislation, national and local guidelines and formularies.
- Advise on individual drug treatments, including possible adverse effects and interactions.
- Undertake medicines reconciliation assurance in conjunction with the medicines management technicians.
- Deal with and report medication incidents
- Work to improve patients’ concordance with medication.
- Provide information to staff, patients and their representatives, including individual counselling on newly prescribed medicines and discharge counselling.
- Produce comprehensive patient medication histories as needed.
- Maintain appropriate clinical documentation and records, including intervention/contribution monitoring and outcome data.
- Advise prescribers and other healthcare professionals on clinical pharmacy issues, answer queries and solve complex problems.
- Work across traditional boundaries as part of a fully integrated multidisciplinary team.
- Provide advice to clinicians on unlicensed medicines use and areas of practice where the evidence base is lacking and medical opinion may differ.
- Responsibility for periodically checking controlled drug stocks on wards and outside units as per trustwide audit criteria.
IMPROVING QUALITY AND DEVELOPING PRACTICE:
- Comply with requirements to register with the GPhC and ensuring own professional development is maintained by keeping up to date with practice developments.
- An annual appraisal (development conversation) is implemented for all staff with their line manager.
- Develop and maintain clinical skills and knowledge necessary to deliver and evidence-based service.
- Attend and contribute to pharmacy team meetings, this may involve clinical presentations and case studies.
- With supervision and assistance take on increased responsibility recognising own limitations and seeking help appropriately.
- Understand and contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies, protocols and guidelines relevant to the specialist area.
- Openly question and challenge practice in a constructive way so that standards of patient care are continually evaluated and improved.
- Promote a research culture within the pharmacy department e.g., by participating in publishing articles, projects and audits.
- Participate in local projects and audits and the Trust wide medicines audit programme.
Education and Training
- Contribute to the delivery of educational sessions provided by the mental health pharmacy team.
- Proactively support the learning of others about mental health pharmacy within the pharmacy team and MDT.
- Support the development of training materials in line with local and national objectives, with supervision.
- Identify own development needs, aligning these to service requirements and personal aspirations. Proactively develop and improve own practice.
- Undertake all mandatory training
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