Advanced Specialist Mental Health Pharmacist, Band 8a
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
This post is part of the commitment to increase specialist mental health pharmacists working in community mental health teams.
The postholder will be a clinical specialist in mental health pharmacy, delivering and further developing clinical pharmacy services to community mental health teams within Gloucestershire, and supporting the lead pharmacist for community mental health teams.
The postholder will be the lead clinical pharmacist for clozapine services within the pharmacy team and will oversee the operational delivery of pharmacy clozapine services. This includes leading and developing the pharmacy technician delivered point of care testing (POCHi) clozapine clinics across the county, being the lead clinical pharmacist for the governance of clozapine in the Trust, and leading any associated projects.
The postholder will deliver a comprehensive clinical pharmacy and medicines management service to patients under the care of Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC) and to the multidisciplinary teams (MDT) responsible for their care. This involves visiting inpatient wards and community team bases, and regularly attending MDT meetings to proactively review, rationalise and optimise patients' medications.
Main Duties of the Job
Interested applicants should have some experience in mental health pharmacy and suitable skills to:
- Deliver and further develop clinical pharmacy services to community mental health teams within Gloucestershire, and support the lead pharmacist for community mental health teams.
- Lead clinical pharmacist for clozapine services within the pharmacy team and lead the operational delivery of pharmacy clozapine services, including leading and developing the pharmacy technician delivered POCHi clozapine clinics across the county, and governance of clozapine in the Trust.
- Act as an independent prescriber and clinical specialist in mental health pharmacy.
- Deliver a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to patients under the care of GHC and to the MDT responsible for their care.
- Support the education, training and development needs of pharmacy professionals and other multidisciplinary staff.
- Provide advice about the actions and use of medication, optimising treatment, and liaising with acute and other care providers to ensure seamless transfer of care.
- Promote safe, rational, efficacious and cost-effective medicines use.
About Us
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the largest employer in the county with over 8,000 staff, making us one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK. We offer a generous annual leave allowance, discounts for local shops, restaurants and services, access to our health and well-being hub, flexible working options, and reward and recognition schemes.
Job Responsibilities
The pharmacy department at Gloucester Royal Hospital provides the clinical pharmacy and dispensing services to Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC) under a service level agreement. This post was developed as part of the commitment to increase specialist mental health pharmacists working in community mental health teams.
The post is responsible to the Lead Pharmacist for Community Mental Health Teams and involves managing some staff within the mental health pharmacy team.
For full details refer to the job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent skills gained through experience of hospital pharmacy
- Specialist Post Graduate certificate or diploma in psychiatric pharmacy, or equivalent
- Postgraduate qualification in Non-Medical Prescribing (or willingness to work towards this qualification within an agreed timeframe)
- This post will require travel to wards and units in Gloucestershire.
Experience
- Experience in supervising and training of staff
- Intermediate competence in standard range of IT programs.
Knowledge & Skills
- Expert clinical knowledge in the specialist mental health pharmacy services
- Able to work alone and unsupervised
- Able to organise and prioritise own workload
- Effective oral and written communication with colleagues, staff and patients
- Able to write reports and make and deliver presentations to a range of colleagues in various settings.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Contract
Permanent
Working Pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Reference Number
318-24-D&S-T1723-A
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