Band 7 Bank Clinical Pharmacist - Salisbury

Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

The Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust invites applications for a pharmacist passionate about improving lives of people with mental health conditions. Based in Salisbury, the post involves integrating with the pharmacy team and clinical teams, traveling to other sites within AWP geography as needed.

You will work with inpatient wards, community teams, and primary care, provide medicines information, participate in audits, education, and governance activities, and support

Qualifications

• Provision of a clinical pharmacy service to inpatient wards and community teams across the Salisbury & Wiltshire localities.
• Attend multidisciplinary rounds, team meetings and ward rounds
• Participation in the education and training of all grades of staff within the Trust on issues concerned with medicines.

Responsibilities

• Attend multidisciplinary rounds, team meetings and ward rounds
• Participation in the education and training of all grades of staff within the Trust on issues concerned with medicines
• Provide advice and information about medicines to service users and carers
• Participate in audits and projects to review and improve the pharmacy service

Job description

An excellent opportunity for a pharmacist with a passion for improving the lives of those experiencing mental health conditions has arisen at AWP. This role requires a dynamic, enthusiastic pharmacist with good communication skills, to integrate themselves into both the pharmacy team and the clinical teams, with a base in the Salisbury area.

The role involves working with healthcare professionals including nurses, doctors and AHPs within inpatient and community teams, as well as colleagues in primary care. The role will focus on collaborative working, supporting the Locality Lead Pharmacist to improve the AWP clinical pharmacy service securing better outcomes for our patients.

The post holder will work closely with clinical pharmacists in different localities, lead pharmacy technicians and the senior pharmacy leadership to develop and deliver the Medicines Optimisation agenda.

The role will be based at Fountains Way Hospital, Salisbury; however, there may be the need to travel to other sites within the AWP geography. Remote clinical cover to other clinical services within AWP will also be required, and discussed on appointment to role.

Provision of a clinical pharmacy service to inpatient wards and community teams across the Salisbury & Wiltshire localities.

Provision of specialist pharmaceutical expertise to MDTs and answering of medicines information enquiries.

• Attend multidisciplinary rounds, team meetings and ward rounds
• Participation in the education and training of all grades of staff within the Trust on issues concerned with medicines.
• Provide advice and information about medicines to service users and carers
• Participate in audits and projects to review and improve the pharmacy service

The AWP pharmacy service supplies medication and provides clinical support to wards and teams across our core catchment area. We have two dispensaries: one in Calne (Wiltshire) and one at Callington Road Hospital (Bristol). As well as managing the medicines supply chain in the trust, we support the safe and effective use of medicines throughout the organisation through our clinical work, enquiry answering, medicines governance activity and many other roles. The team are friendly, dynamic and evolving, with aspirations to improve patient care across the AWP geography. Support from other experienced mental health pharmacists and pharmacy technicians is always available.

We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all-round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.

Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.