Advanced Clinical Pharmacist

Leeds And York Partnership Nhs Foundation Trust; Ledston; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Flexible working

Remote working arrangements

Wellbeing support

Career development

Job summary

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a motivated pharmacist to join our progressive pharmacy team to cover maternity leave.

You will provide advanced clinical pharmacy and medicines-related care to service users with mental illness, learning disabilities and substance misuse, lead medicines optimisation and provide professional leadership to inpatient services at one or more hospital sites.

Qualifications

• Essential: Masters or Bachelor degree in Pharmacy and General Pharmaceutical Council registration (GPhC).
• Postgraduate clinical pharmacy/ pharmacy practice experience or equivalent years' experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced clinical pharmacy and medicines-related care to service users with mental illness, learning disabilities and substance misuse.
• Lead medicines optimisation and provide professional leadership to inpatient services.
• Lead and mentor a team of pharmacists and technicians at Newsam Centre and support teaching workforce development.

Skills

Excellent communication

Clinical pharmacy

Leadership

Education

Masters or Bachelor in Pharmacy

GPhC registration

Job description

Job summary

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic pharmacist to join our progressive, pharmacy team to cover an upcoming maternity leave.
To provide advanced clinical pharmacy and medicines related care to service users with mental illness, learning disabilities and substance misuse problems.
Your focus will be to lead on and provide complex medicines optimisation advice and professional leadership to the inpatient services based at one or more LYPFT hospital sites.
You will work as an integral member of the Multidisciplinary Team(s) but also independently to proactively identify, respond to and develop patient centred treatment recommendations for medicines queries, prescribe medicines if appropriately qualified and within scope, speak with service users/carers about medication to improve service users' outcomes and experience of their medication.
You will lead and provide professional guidance to a team of pharmacists and technicians based at the Newsam Centre to deliver an efficient pharmacy service alongside the Lead Technicians. This will include undertaking line management responsibility for Clinical Pharmacists, Band 6 / Specialist Clinical Pharmacists, Band 7 pharmacists and mentor other pharmacists in the Trust (including rotational trainees/undergraduates) as required.
As part of an excellent teaching organisation, you will have a responsibility to educate and develop the pharmacy and wider healthcare workforce.

Main duties of the job

Participate in the on-call and weekend rota working at one of our inpatient sites.
You will have a 60:40 split of clinical to service development/management responsibilities
Participate in the medicines information rota.

About us

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.
We also have a bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.
Applicants should be aware that individuals requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust only provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles (this does not include Healthcare Support Workers). This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

Job responsibilities

We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.
All our information is available in accessible formats.
Attached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application.
If you require a reasonable adjustment, see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.
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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters or Bachelor degree in Pharmacy (+ 1 years pre-registration experience) + Member of General Pharmaceutical Council

Experience

Essential

• Postgraduate clinical pharmacy/ pharmacy practice or equivalent years' experience, Experience of project/change/ service management
• Experience of hospital pharmacy

Skills

Essential

• Excellent communication skills including verbal, written and electronic

Values

Desirable

• Tell us about a time when you spotted something small going wrong and did something to stop it becoming a bigger issue.
• Tell us about a time when you realised a colleague or someone you know needed a bit of support and you offered to help.
• Tell us about a time when you showed someone kindness or understanding.