Clinical Pharmacist/Pharmacy Doctoral Training Fellow

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust; Bradford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Bradford is seeking a dynamic pharmacist for a dual role focused on mental health and pharmacy practice. This exciting opportunity includes working closely with clinical teams in inpatient and community settings, optimizing patient care while pursuing a fully funded PhD. Applicants should possess strong communication skills and a commitment to innovating patient outcomes through effective medicines management.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Health and wellbeing support

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in mental health settings required.
• Familiarity with pharmacogenomic testing is a plus.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills necessary.

Responsibilities

• Provide mental health pharmacy services.
• Integrate within clinical teams to deliver medicines optimisation.
• Evaluate pharmacogenomic testing's impact on prescribing.

Skills

Mental health pharmacy service

Patient care integration

Pharmacogenomics knowledge

Education

PhD in Pharmacy or related field

Job description

Overview

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust is looking for an enthusiastic, dynamic pharmacist to work within an innovative and progressive pharmacy department that is committed to improving patient care and patient outcomes. The pharmacy department has expanded within recent years following investment in the team and we are looking to continue to improve and develop our team to ensure our patients get the best possible outcomes from their medicines. We are excited to offer this dual role to a dynamic and enthusiastic pharmacist looking to work in a clinical role at the same time as obtaining their PhD.

Role and rotations

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and inspirational pharmacist who is committed to optimising the medicines of patients living with mental health problems. You would be joining a progressive pharmacy department which works closely with a range of healthcare professionals. This is a rotational post where the successful applicant will rotate between inpatient services and community mental health services gaining a range of experience in specialties such as older peoples mental health, learning disabilities, adult mental health, forensic psychiatry and more.

Responsibilities

• Provide a mental health pharmacy service to specialist mental health teams, outpatient clinics for clozapine, depot antipsychotics and lithium where you will be actively involved in direct patient care.
• Successful applicants will integrate within clinical teams as part of the multi-disciplinary approach delivering medicines optimisation including deprescribing and improving processes to reduce risks with medicines especially between different care settings. You will have opportunities to liaise across interfaces of care with other providers.

Pharmacy Doctoral Training Fellowship

Project title: Integrating pharmacogenomics to support safe and appropriate psychotropic prescribing: a multi-methods approach to exploring the role of mental health pharmacists and developing an implementation support package.

This is a fully funded training programme to conduct research into the potential of pharmacogenomic testing to deliver patient benefit in patients with mental health conditions.

The student will evaluate how pharmacogenomic testing can aid prescribing and deprescribing decisions to improve the care of patients with mental health conditions. The doctoral training fellowship is a partnership between the University of Bradford, NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety Research Collaboration and Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust.

Values, flexible working and benefits

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: - We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference; - We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs; - We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners. We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including: increased mileage for > 3500 miles, a wide range of health and wellbeing support packages, a range of internal and external development and learning opportunities, plus many more. We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

Application details

The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received. Banding is either at Band 6 or 7 depending on experience.