South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Medicines Information Pharmacist

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Job summary

Senior Medicines Information Pharmacist

Are you a confident & decisive pharmacist with extensive knowledge of psychotropic medicines and excellent written and oral communication skills?

If so then this is an opportunity for you to join our highly-respected National Centre for Psychotropic Medicines Information Service at the Maudsley Hospital.

About the location:

Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2). We also provide services and operate across other locations, such as London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; and substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Lambeth, Greenwich and Wandsworth.

Main duties of the job

Our pharmacy department has a worldwide reputation for research, having published over 300 peer-reviewed clinical papers in the last 25 years. There are numerous opportunities to become involved in research for the successful applicant. The department also hosts the National Medicines Information Centre of Psychotropic Drugs and publishes the Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry.

The South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC), a pioneering collaboration between King's College London, Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts.

The pharmacy department provides a clinical and dispensing service to wards and community teams in Croydon, Southwark and Lambeth across four hospital sites and a wide variety of community mental health teams. We also provide information about medication to both staff and patients to improve understanding and contribute to evidence based care.

About us

Benefits:

We are committed to ensuring our staff get the most out of their benefits package and understand the importance of a healthy work life balance. There is an extensive range of excellent benefits for you and your family. We want you to feel like you are part of a close knit team at SLaM. It's important to us that you valued and appreciated and that are why we have a comprehensive benefits package on offer

Some of our benefits are highlighted here:

  • Generous pay, pensions and leave, we offer a comprehensive pay, pensions and leave package which is dependent on the role and length of service.
  • Work life balance, flexible working and support a range of flexible options, such as: part-time working and job sharing.
  • Career development, There are plenty of opportunities to progress your career and we support your development through a number of programmes such as mentoring, coaching, positive people management, collective leadership and other talent programmes
  • Car lease, our staff benefits from competitive deals to lease cars
  • Accommodation, our staff benefits from keyworker housing available which is available on selected sites
  • NHS discounts, with discounts up to 10% from a variety of well-known retail brands though Health Service Discounts website.

Other benefits include:

  • Counselling services
  • Wellbeing events
  • Long service awards
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Season ticket loan
  • Childcare vouchers
  • Staff restaurants

We look forward to receiving your application.

Details

Date posted

30 January 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£61,927 to £68,676 a year per annum incl. of inner HCAs

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

334-CLI-6862864

Job locations

Maudsley Hospital

Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AZ

London

SE5 8AZ


Job description

Job responsibilities

  • Providing a comprehensive expert psychotropic medicines information service to health-care professionals and patients
  • Providing specialist training for consultant level health-care professionals
  • Providing a clinical pharmacy service to a designated ward or group of patients.

Job description

Job responsibilities

  • Providing a comprehensive expert psychotropic medicines information service to health-care professionals and patients
  • Providing specialist training for consultant level health-care professionals
  • Providing a clinical pharmacy service to a designated ward or group of patients.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • MPharm or equivalent
  • Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), with mandatory CPD

Desirable

  • Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
  • Member of the College of Mental Health Pharmacists (CMHP)
  • Post graduate certificate in Clinical or Psychiatric Pharmacy
  • National MI training course
  • Independent Pharmacy Prescriber

Experience

Essential

  • Previous experience in psychiatric pharmacy
  • MI training and experience

Knowledge

Essential

  • Demonstrates advanced specialist clinical knowledge
  • Aware of legal and ethical issues affecting MI

Skills

Essential

  • Demonstrates good information retrieval skills
  • Able to summarise evaluated information to provide highly specialist advice or professional opinion
  • Evidence of good writing skills
  • Advanced internet searching skills
  • Word and Excel computer skills
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • MPharm or equivalent
  • Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), with mandatory CPD

Desirable

  • Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
  • Member of the College of Mental Health Pharmacists (CMHP)
  • Post graduate certificate in Clinical or Psychiatric Pharmacy
  • National MI training course
  • Independent Pharmacy Prescriber

Experience

Essential

  • Previous experience in psychiatric pharmacy
  • MI training and experience

Knowledge

Essential

  • Demonstrates advanced specialist clinical knowledge
  • Aware of legal and ethical issues affecting MI

Skills

Essential

  • Demonstrates good information retrieval skills
  • Able to summarise evaluated information to provide highly specialist advice or professional opinion
  • Evidence of good writing skills
  • Advanced internet searching skills
  • Word and Excel computer skills

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Maudsley Hospital

Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AZ

London

SE5 8AZ


Employer's website

https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Maudsley Hospital

Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AZ

London

SE5 8AZ


Employer's website

https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Medicines Information Manager - Pharmacist

Petrina Douglas Hall

petrina.douglas-hall@slam.nhs.uk

02032282317

Details

Date posted

30 January 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£61,927 to £68,676 a year per annum incl. of inner HCAs

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

334-CLI-6862864

Job locations

Maudsley Hospital

Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AZ

London

SE5 8AZ


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