Neighborhood Mental Health Pharmacist

NHS; Bury, Rochdale, Ashton-under-Lyne; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is seeking three senior mental health pharmacists to join their community mental health teams in Bury and Rochdale. The role involves delivering clinical pharmacy services, leading non-medical prescribing pathways, and providing training on psychotropic medications. Candidates must be members of the General Pharmaceutical Council and possess relevant postgraduate qualifications. This position emphasizes clinical development with no dispensary commitments, making it an excellent opportunity for mental health professionals.

Qualifications

• Current member of the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Qualified Independent Prescriber or undergoing qualification.
• Experience in initiating, leading and implementing change.

Responsibilities

• Deliver clinical pharmacy service to CMHTs in Tameside.
• Manage and develop clinical pharmacy service for Living Well Teams.
• Provide training around psychotropic medicines.

Skills

Psychiatric pharmacy practice

Independent prescriber

Training delivery

Policy development

Education

Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy

Job description

We have an excellent opportunity for a 3 senior mental health pharmacists to join our expanding community mental health offer. One of the roles is based within the Community Mental Health Teams in Tameside and the other two within the Living Well & Access Teams Bury and Rochdale. You will work with the Community Mental Health Teams in Tameside acting as a key contributor to the multi-disciplinary team to support safe, effective and evidence based treatment to patients with serious and enduring mental illness. Within Living Well & Access Teams the post-holder will act as a prescriber and be responsible for developing the clinical pharmacy service and medication related pathway within your borough. There is no dispensary or out of hours commitment providing the perfect opportunity for you to develop your clinical skills and broaden your mental health knowledge and experience.

Main duties of the job

To deliver the established clinical pharmacy service to the CMHTs in Tameside or to provide, manage, organise and develop the clinical pharmacy service to the Living Well and Access Teams across your borough.

To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate specialist clinical mental health pharmacy services in your area.

To provide expert pharmaceutical advice and liaison to the CMHT . Living Well Team, GPs, practice pharmacists, other healthcare professionals (HCPs), patients, and carers.

To lead on the non-medical prescribing pathway within the Living Well service and act as an independent prescriber of medication, ensuring that drug therapy is evidence based, safe, cost effective and appropriate to the individual patient.

To provide training to the CMHT / Living Well Team, GPs and other HCPs within Primary Care around the use of psychotropic medicines.

To ensure that pharmacy services work within agreed guidelines to ensure effective medicines management

To provide cover for other pharmacists providing a service to and employed by Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, as requested.

About us

You will work within a multi-disciplinary CMHT or Living Well & Access Team within your borough . You will also be supported by a lively clinical pharmacy team who are dedicated to delivering excellent services and cover community services, assessment services, specialist services and inpatient services. You will receive clinical and and management supervision and have opportunities to develop yourself and the role through education, training, team meetings and opportunities such as Quality Improvement and audit. You will supported to undertake further qualifications as needed . The role is entirely clinical with no dispensary, out of hours or on call commitment

Job responsibilities

You will deliver the established clinical pharmacy service to the CMHTs in Tameside or depending on post you will provide, manage, organise and develop the clinical pharmacy service to the Living Well and Access Teams across Bury or Rochdale; the main responsibilities are covered in the job description.

Person Specification

• Current member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Qualified Independent Prescriber or undergoing qualification
• Relevant post graduate qualification, i.e. Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice or equivalent experience
• Experience in a number of areas of psychiatric pharmacy practice
• Experience in initiating, leading and implementing change and new developments
• Qualified prescriber
• developing policies and strategies
• CMHP credentialed

essential and desireable

• Experience of delivering training
• Experience of a number of areas of psychiatric pharmacy practice
• Experience in initiating, leading and implementing change and new developments
• Experience of developing guidelines or protocols
• Experience of people management

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.