Description
Are you looking for a new challenge? Fancy joining a dynamic, forward-thinking, and patient-focused team that is continuously striving to deliver excellent clinical pharmacy services?
We have fantastic opportunities across our mental health in-patient and secure and learning disability services, for experienced, enthusiastic, adaptable, highly self-motivated pharmacists with a passion for mental health to join our friendly and supportive teams.
Successful candidates will be responsible for leading, delivering and developing our mental health clinical pharmacy services. You will support multi-disciplinary teams to deliver high quality, safe and cost-effective pharmaceutical care for patients.
We are looking for proactive candidates with excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills and ability to work autonomously, build relationships, manage, and motivate a team.
Shortlisting planned for: 11 February 2025
Interview planned for: W/C 17 February 2025
You will not routinely work weekends or cover the on-call advisory service unless minimum thresholds are breached.
Key Responsibilities:
- To participate in the delivery of highly specialist clinical pharmacy services, ensuring that services meet professional standards and comply with relevant legislation.
- To carry out medicines reconciliation, clinically checks and medication reviews to ensure the safe and effective use of medicines.
- To actively participate and develop effective partnerships with other professions as part of a multi-disciplinary approach to medicines optimisation.
- To undertake pharmaceutical care planning, utilising local trust guidance and national protocols.
- To provide specialist information and advice on the safe and effective use of medicines to patients and their carers to support informed decision making and treatment adherence.
- To ensure effective medication practices are developed carried out consistently across mental health services promoting medicines safety reducing harm from medications.
- To participate in clinical audit practice research
- To participate in training supervision mentoring line management of colleagues
Refer to the Job Description Person Specification for full details of the requirements of this post.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health mental health services in the North West serving more than 1.4 million people across our region. We are also commissioned for services that cover North West North Wales Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient community services that support physical mental health specialist inpatient mental health learning disability addiction brain injury services. Mersey Care is one only three trusts UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At heart all we do is our commitment perfect care - care that is safe effective positively experienced timely equitable efficient. We support staff do best job they can work alongside service users families carers design develop future together.
We're currently delivering programme organisational service transformation significantly improve quality services provide safely reduce cost as we do so. Flexible working requests will be considered all roles.
Additional Responsibilities:
- To participate in delivery highly specialist clinical pharmaceutical medical supply services ensuring that meet standards set by General Pharmaceutical Council relevant legislation.
- To act advanced clinical pharmacist inpatient mental health specifically clozapine within medicines management team.
- Act as trusts point contact pharmaceutical issues within inpatient mental healthcare settings.
To be responsible:
1) Leading delivering developing comprehensive clinical pharmacy supply trust’s inpatient
2) Development implementation clozapine initiation including systems processes ongoing monitoring prescribed ensuring streamlined escalation
3) Effective management practices developed carried consistently promote safety reduce risk harm medications
4) Develop evidence-based treatment protocols use within clozapine facilitate implementation local national guidelines relating
5) Contribute development new policies procedures modification existing their implementation
6) Undertake clinics direct patient contact including reviews home visits
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