Advanced Pharmacist

Derbyshirehealthcareft; Derby; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health service provider in Derby is seeking a knowledgeable and experienced Pharmacist to join their community mental health team. The successful candidate will play a vital role in developing pharmacy services, contributing to care plans, and supporting mental health services with a potential for working from home. This position offers robust training opportunities and is ideal for pharmacists seeking to advance their careers in mental health.

Benefits

27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Access to LGBT+ and BAME networks

Incremental pay progression

24/7 employee assistance program

Structured learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in hospital pharmacy and mental health pharmacy roles.
• Experience as a prescriber and across organizational interfaces.
• Knowledge of therapeutics in mental health.

Responsibilities

• Develop working relationships with multi-disciplinary teams.
• Respond to medication-related queries and provide advice.
• Manage and supervise clinical and specialist pharmacists.

Skills

Highly specialist knowledge of mental health medications

Advanced experience as a specialist pharmacist

Experience of quality improvement

Education

GPhC registration

Postgraduate mental health pharmacy diploma

CMHP Accreditation

Job description

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Pharmacist to join our friendly, established and respected team, in leading and developing the pharmacy service provided to mental health services to the community mental health teams in Derby and Derbyshire.

The role will be expected to spend time at the Trust main base in Derby and within the community mental health team bases. The role could also have a 40% WFH component; service need allowing.

We provide all our pharmacy staff with opportunities for development, including full funding for post-graduate qualifications in mental health pharmacy, including the certificate and diploma through Aston University, and independent prescribing qualification if required.

This role would be ideally suited to an experienced mental health Pharmacist looking to relocate or a mental health Pharmacist looking for progression.

If this sounds like who you are, then please get in touch to discuss!

Main duties of the job

The roles and duties of this post include:

• Developing close working relationships with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and contributing to clinical care plans
• Responding to medication-related queries, providing advice on prescribing and promoting evidence-based practice
• Discussing medication with patients and carers and developing a variety of approaches to support informed care
• Educating colleagues about medicines management and medicines optimisation
• Providing line management and supervision to the clinical and specialist Pharmacists in the team
• Acting as a non-medical prescriber in a community mental health team

About us

Join 'Team Derbyshire Healthcare' and become part of a talented, compassionate and enthusiastic workforce committed to a vision of 'making a positive difference in people's lives'.

CQC rated us as 'GOOD' overall, commenting on how our colleagues "treated patients with compassion and kindness" and "felt positive and proud about working for the trust."

Benefits include:

• Commitment to flexible working where this is possible
• 27 days annual leave/year plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days after 5 years & 33 days after 10 years' service
• Yearly appraisal and commitment to ongoing training
• Good maternity, paternity and adoption benefits
• Health service discounts and online benefits
• Incremental pay progression
• Free confidential employee assistance programme 24/7
• Access to our LGBT+ network, BAME Network and Christian Network
• Health and wellbeing opportunities
• Structured learning and development opportunities

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

• GPhC registration
• Postgraduate mental health pharmacy diploma OR a postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy and equivalent experience.
• CMHP Accreditation

Knowledge / Experience

• Hospital pharmacy experience
• Highly specialist knowledge of mental health medications and therapeutics, other therapeutic area or highly generalist knowledge.
• Advanced experience of working as a specialist pharmacist
• Experience of working as a specialist mental health pharmacist
• Experience of quality improvement and service development
• Experience of practicing as a prescriber
• Experience of working across organisational interfaces

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.