Job summary
Are you an enthusiastic, forwardthinking pharmacist with a passion for transforming the lives of people with mental health conditions?
If so, we'd love to welcome you to our evolving Community Mental Health Team as a Specialist Pharmacist. In this pivotal role, you'll help shape high quality, person centred care across our services, working alongside a dedicated multidisciplinary team to improve outcomes and champion best practice in mental health medicines optimisation.
Main duties of the job
The post-holder will provide highly specialist clinical, pharmaceutical and medicines optimisation expertise across Community Mental Health Services (CMHTs) and work closely across the wider Primary Care Networks (PCNs) on the Isle of Wight.
They will ensure the safe, effective, evidence-based and cost-efficient use of mental health medicines, support integrated care across organisations, and contribute to the development, delivery and evaluation of high-quality pharmacy services for people with mental health conditions.
About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.
Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.
We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.
Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.
We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Master of Pharmacy degree or equivalent.
- *General Pharmaceutical Council registered pharmacist.
- *Postgraduate Diploma (or MSc) in Clinical Pharmacy Practice or equivalent experience.
Desirable
- *Member or associate member of the College of MH Pharmacy
- *Diploma in Psychiatric Pharmacy
- *Independent Prescriber qualification
Experience
Essential
- *Substantial post-registration experience as a practicing pharmacist.
- *Significant post-registration experience of mental health, community and hospital pharmacy.
- *Multidisciplinary mental health team working and making clinically appropriate interventions.
- *Clinical Audit.
- *Training of other staff.
- *Provision of information to patients and carers.
Desirable
- *Demonstrable experience of cross sector collaborative working with primary care healthcare professionals including GPs.
- *Experience in management of Mental Health patients
- *Experience in clinical training and/or mentoring of pharmacy staff and other members of the MDT
- *Service development
- *Experience of in writing procedures, clinical guidelines and policy/protocols.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Master of Pharmacy degree or equivalent.
- *General Pharmaceutical Council registered pharmacist.
- *Postgraduate Diploma (or MSc) in Clinical Pharmacy Practice or equivalent experience.
Desirable
- *Member or associate member of the College of MH Pharmacy
- *Diploma in Psychiatric Pharmacy
- *Independent Prescriber qualification
Experience
Essential
- *Substantial post-registration experience as a practicing pharmacist.
- *Significant post-registration experience of mental health, community and hospital pharmacy.
- *Multidisciplinary mental health team working and making clinically appropriate interventions.
- *Clinical Audit.
- *Training of other staff.
- *Provision of information to patients and carers.
Desirable
- *Demonstrable experience of cross sector collaborative working with primary care healthcare professionals including GPs.
- *Experience in management of Mental Health patients
- *Experience in clinical training and/or mentoring of pharmacy staff and other members of the MDT
- *Service development
- *Experience of in writing procedures, clinical guidelines and policy/protocols.
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).
