Rotational Clinical Pharmacist (one year fixed term maternity cover)

Job responsibilities

Are you an enthusiastic, motivated and committed pharmacist? If so we would like you to join our mental health pharmacy team. You must be someone who works well in a dynamic team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. You will also need to have the skills to be able to work within the wider multi-disciplinary team of nurses and doctors and other allied healthcare professionals and managers. You will want to develop and improve the reliability and quality of our clinical pharmacy service. You will need to have specific experience working with pharmacy teams and patients within the mental health setting. You will want to reach targets set by the Trust and by the pharmacy service. You must be self- motivated and able to motivate others.

Our ELFT pharmacy team provides pharmacy services to a wide range of community and inpatient service users in Luton and Bedforshire, City and Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets. This includes children and young people to adults of working age, older adults, and forensic patients. We provide a broad range of clinical pharmacy services to our inpatient wards and are supported by trained medicines management technicians.

You will lead on the provision of pharmacy services in Tower Hamlets. You will also provide support to the medicines management technicians and pharmacists, provide operational support where required, provide a clinical pharmacy service to inpatient wards and work with the multidisciplinary team to ensure the delivery of a safe and effective service to mental health patients in our directorate. You will have a particular role in implementing and monitoring the clinical pharmacy standards and working closely with the Pharmacy Services Manager to identify service gaps. You will be responsible for areas of service and line management of pharmacists and technicians. You will also be involved in working with the other lead pharmacists in undertaking and developing audits and projects to evaluate and improve services alongside pharmacy and trust priorities and objectives.

The postholder must be able to show compassion and respect for people with mental health problems and be driven to improve their care through medicines management.

Education/ Qualification/Training

Essential

• Vocational Masters Degree in Pharmacy (4 years or equivalent)
• + pre -registration training
• Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council and/or Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Desirable

• Working towards higher Degree/Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
• Experience in clinical pharmacy in a mental health setting
• Experience in clinical pharmacy of working with older people
• post registration training relevant to hospital pharmacy
• Psychiatry qualification (or willing to work towards this)

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate medicine related information to mental health patients, carers and clinical staff

Desirable

• Previous evaluated experience of mentorship and training skills
• To have undertaken clinical audit
• Training and education
• Previous experience in providing clinical mental health services.
• Staff management experience Monitoring and advising on drug expenditure

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Clinical and critical appraisal skills
• The ability to identify and prioritise clinical work load
• Communicates with medical, nursing and pharmacy staff in clear precise and appropriate manner
• To have an awareness of national and local priorities
• The ability to identify and manage risks
• Ability to evaluate own work
• Enhances the quality of patient care
• Demonstrates awareness of the clinical governance agenda
• Basic IT skills
• Teaching and presentation skills
• Demonstrates ability to meets set targets
• Demonstrate ability to organise self to ensure efficient use of time
• Meets expected levels of practice as defined by others
• Self motivated
• The ability and willingness to deputise for senior staff while recognising limitations of experience and ability
• Takes responsibilities for own actions
• Able to influence junior medical staff

Desirable

• Understanding of local trust priorities
• Evidence of writing procedures, guidelines or protocols

Other

Essential

• Works calmly under pressure
• Understands and shows commitment to continuing personal development.
• Be able to achieve objectives
• Able to use initiative and show appropriate level of self reliance
• Friendly personality; helpful to other staff and patients.
• Adaptable
• Demonstrates ability to meets set targets
• Demonstrate ability to organise self in order to ensure efficient use of time.
• Self motivated
• The ability and willingness to deputise for senior staff while recognising limitations of experience and ability
• Takes responsibilities for own actions
• Sickness (or attendance) record that is acceptable to the Trust: to be checked at interview. Declared medically fit by the Occupational Health Department to perform the duties of the post
• Be willing to travel to off -site wards

Desirable

• Own car and full driver's license.

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

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UK Registration

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