Advanced Clinical Pharmacist & Clinical Educator

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust invites applications for a Mental Health Clinical Educator hosted by the Medicines Management Team, working two days weekly with University of Liverpool's School of Pharmacy.

You will lead development, delivery and evaluation of mental health teaching for undergraduates and ensure parity with physical health within the Trust and university settings.

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic and highly motivated pharmacist with excellent communication, organisational, and team-working skills.
• Advanced mental health credentialling in line with the curriculum; evidence leadership.
• Experience across all 4 pillars of practice.
• Able to lead, teach and support others on credentialling journey.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to design, development, delivery and assessment of mental health teaching within the MPharm programme.
• Lead mental health-focused experiential learning across the MPharm programme (simulation, placements, EPAs).
• Provide advanced clinical pharmacy service to inpatient mental health wards.
• Be an active non-medical prescriber and a role model.
• Provide leadership and contribute to the Education & Training Team and Medicines Optimisation Strategy.
• Support ward work at base and other Trust sites as needed.

Skills

Communication

Organisational skills

Teamwork

Leadership

Education

GPhC registered pharmacist

Advanced mental health credentialing

Job description

We are excited to be able to invite applicants for this new mental health clinical educator post that will be hosted by the Medicines Management Team and will work at the University of Liverpool's new School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences 2 days a week.

In the Trust, you will contribute to the delivery of an advanced clinical pharmacy service to in-patient mental health services, and be part of the Education & Training Team. At the University you will lead the development, delivery and evaluation of mental health teaching and experiential learning for undergraduates. You will ensure that mental health is considered with parity to physical health.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated pharmacist with excellent communication, organisational, and team-working skills to deliver clinical pharmacy services alongside multidisciplinary teams. You will be reliable, willing to learn, able to work on your own initiative and flexible to support the wider pharmacy & university teams.

You will be a role model for undergraduates and for the Trust Medicines Management Team. You must be experienced across all 4 pillars of practice, and be working at or towards advanced pharmacist credentialling with the advanced mental health curriculum. You will also be able to evidence your leadership and support of others working on their own credentialling journey.

Main duties of the job

• Contribute to the design, development, delivery and assessment of mental health teaching within the MPharm programme, including teaching and assessing clinical pharmacy skills to support professional practice
• Lead mental health-focused experiential learning across theMPharm programme, including simulation, health placements, and the integration of Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs).
• Contribute to the provision ofadvanced clinical pharmacy service to in-patient mental health wards
• Be an active non-medical prescriber
• Provide leadership and be a role model
• Contribute to strategic and operational running of the Education & Training Team and the delivery of the Medicines Optimisation Strategy
• Contributeto ward work at your base and on other Trust sites according to operational need

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities. At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.