Job summary
Open to early career pharmacists, Band 7
Do you have an interest in working in a multidisciplinary team where your contribution makes a difference to peoples' health, wellbeing and quality of life? Would you like to work in a team who will support your development as a pharmacist?
If you have an interest in Mental Health or would like to gain experience in Mental Health Pharmacy then apply for this post! We are looking for an enthusiastic pharmacist to join our clinical team at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Trust.
The successful candidate will provide ward services across our inpatient wards and develop further to be able to support our community mental health teams across Gloucestershire.
We have flexible working options and welcome applications for part-time and full-time positions.
Main duties of the job
- 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 provide clinical cover to the mental health dispensary to promote safe, rational, effective and cost-effective use of medicines.
- To 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.
- To contribute to good physical health wellbeing of patients under GHC Mental health services by providing expert advice and performing interventions to improve physical health.
- To support pharmacy staff to deliver an effective dispensing and supply service.
- Undertake (with training, support and supervision) 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.
About us
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust operates hospitals on our two main sites in Cheltenham and Gloucester, and we're one of the largest NHS trusts in the country.
- Our workforce of almost 9,000 staff provide high quality emergency, elective and specialist care across a range of clinical areas
- 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 (SLA).
- The post holder will be part of the specialist mental health pharmacy team working out of the mental health specific dispensary base in Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be part of the specialist mental health pharmacy team delivering comprehensive clinical pharmacy and medicines management service to patients under the care of GHC and to the multidisciplinary teams responsible for their care.
Clinical Pharmacy Services to Inpatient Wards and Community Mental Health Teams
Be responsible and accountable for providing a clinical pharmacy service to allocated 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.
Deal with medicines information queries from patients, medical and other healthcare professionals, using a wide range of information sources both electronic and hard copy regarding drug-related queries.
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 trust-wide audit criteria.
Please see link to job description and person specification for more detail.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will be part of the specialist mental health pharmacy team delivering comprehensive clinical pharmacy and medicines management service to patients under the care of GHC and to the multidisciplinary teams responsible for their care.
Clinical Pharmacy Services to Inpatient Wards and Community Mental Health Teams
Be responsible and accountable for providing a clinical pharmacy service to allocated 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.
Deal with medicines information queries from patients, medical and other healthcare professionals, using a wide range of information sources both electronic and hard copy regarding drug-related queries.
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 trust-wide audit criteria.
Please see link to job description and person specification for more detail.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered with GPhC
- United Kingdom recognised degree in Pharmacy
- Evidence of ongoing professional development through revalidation
Desirable
- Post graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent skills
- Certificate in psychiatric pharmacy or gain equivalent specialist knowledge
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Able to work alone and unsupervised.
- Able to use initiative & prioritise workload as well as work in a team
- Excellent and efficient time management skills
- Able to effectively and appropriately escalate concerns to reduce risk & promote safety
- Intermediate competence in standard range of IT programs.
- Concentration and accuracy required for clinical validation and accuracy checking prescriptions and performing calculations.
- Work effectively as a member of the multi-disciplinary team
- Excellent presentation, communication and interpersonal skills
Experience
Desirable
- Experience working in mental health pharmacy
- Experience working in hospital pharmacy
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Reliable, Adaptable and Dependable
- Self-motivated
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered with GPhC
- United Kingdom recognised degree in Pharmacy
- Evidence of ongoing professional development through revalidation
Desirable
- Post graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent skills
- Certificate in psychiatric pharmacy or gain equivalent specialist knowledge
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Able to work alone and unsupervised.
- Able to use initiative & prioritise workload as well as work in a team
- Excellent and efficient time management skills
- Able to effectively and appropriately escalate concerns to reduce risk & promote safety
- Intermediate competence in standard range of IT programs.
- Concentration and accuracy required for clinical validation and accuracy checking prescriptions and performing calculations.
- Work effectively as a member of the multi-disciplinary team
- Excellent presentation, communication and interpersonal skills
Experience
Desirable
- Experience working in mental health pharmacy
- Experience working in hospital pharmacy
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Reliable, Adaptable and Dependable
- Self-motivated
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
