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Senior Clinical Pharmacist post in the Medicines Optimisation team at Devon Partnership NHS Trust, giving specialist pharmacy input to community mental health teams in North Devon. The role covers medication review, prescribing, counselling, audit and training, and links with local primary care networks. Band 8a is for candidates with mental health experience, while strong clinical candidates without it are placed at band 7 and supported to develop.
Current GPhC registration and independent prescribing, or working towards it, are required.
- Develop and provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service to mental health community teams in North Devon
- Develop links with local primary care network services
- Work with other mental health services when needed, such as supporting inpatient admissions for the local patient group
- Carry out medication reviews
- Provide patient counselling
- Prescribe medicines
- Carry out clinical audit
- Engage with patients' physical health
- Deliver training
- Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or therapeutics, or equivalent clinical experience
- Certificate, diploma or Masters in psychiatric pharmacy practice, or equivalent clinical experience
- Independent prescribing qualification, or working towards it
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Current registration as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary healthcare team
- Experience of supervising pharmacy technicians and assistants
- Experience of managing change in a complex environment and successfully implementing it
- Ability to work under pressure to deadlines with conflicting priorities
- Up to date and detailed knowledge of relevant guidelines and clinical practice in the speciality
- Involvement in change management and/or clinical service improvement
- Experience of undertaking clinical audit
- Experience of delivering training programmes
- Membership of the College of Mental Health Pharmacy
- RPS Advanced Practice Framework completed
- Full and comprehensive induction, with support and time to settle into the role
- Opportunities to develop clinical knowledge and experience
- Part-time and flexible working considered and supported where possible
Position Requirements
10+ Years
work experience
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