Clinical Lead Pharmacist

Are you an enthusiastic, motivated and committed pharmacist? If so we would like you to join our mental health pharmacy team!

You will 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 dynamic and creative 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.

The post is 30 hours worked over 4 days, Monday-Thursday 12-months fixed term. There may be an opportunity to build hours on BANK outside the contracted hours as well as extending the hours up to full time in the future.

The job share partner for the role will work on Friday(s).

1. To support and coordinate a comprehensive clinical pharmacy and medicines management service to the City and Hackney and forensic directorates.

2. To ensure the provision of a high quality, responsive and patient centered pharmacy service to all patients within the directorate by implementing and monitoring the Trust's clinical pharmacy standards.

3. To attend Hackney management meetings including clinical risk and inpatient management meeting

4. To represent the Forensic Directorate at Trust-wide meetings

5. To manage audit and quality improvement projects for the City and Hackney and forensic service pharmacy alongside the lead pharmacist

6. To support the clinical pharmacists and medicines management technicians in their delivery of the clinical service.

7. To attend regional clinical pharmacy network groups and network and feedback with initiatives.

8. To ensure the effective day to day management of the Trust Medicines Information service. (this service is currently under review)

9. To attend and contribute to the Trust Senior Pharmacy Managers meetings.

10. To attend and contribute to the Trusts medicines committee

11. To deputize for the Lead Pharmacist in his or her absence

12. To undertake operational work, either medicines information or link pharmacist

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are:
We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

The job description has been reviewed to provide a greater narrative around the different services involved.

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• Masters Degree in Pharmacy
• Member of the General Pharmaceutical council and/or Royal Pharmaceutical society
• Psychiatric qualification or significant experience in psychiatry
• Supplementary or Independent Prescriber (or willing to work towards this)

• Up to date knowledge of current white papers/ national/ government reports affecting psychiatry
• Drugs used in psychiatry.
• Aware of effect of political changes on healthcare
• Sound knowledge of drug management of Mental Health disorders including national guidance
• Clinical and critical appraisal skills
• Able to influence all grades of medical staff
• Evidence in writing procedures, clinical guidelines and policy/protocols.
• 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
• Teaching and presentation skills
• Able to work as part of team or alone
• Shows empathy towards patients' needs

• Proven experience of good performance in previous posts, where relevant
• Demonstrate ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate medicine related information to Mental Health patients, carers and clinical staff
• Previous evaluated experience of mentorship
• Setting objectives and appraisal techniques
• Clinical Audit.
• Monitoring and advising on drug expenditure
• Working in a community setting.

• 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…