Pharmacy Service Clinical Lead - Mental Health

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a multi-award-winning team at Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust as a Clinical Pharmacist. The role offers a chance to shape patient care through innovative practices and provides support for career development. Enjoy a generous relocation package, NHS pension, and various employee benefits.

Benefits

Generous relocation package

NHS Pension scheme

Up to 27 days annual leave, increasing with service

Support for career development

Extensive health and wellbeing support

Flexible working options

Free flu vaccinations

Salary sacrifice car and bike schemes

Free car parking at all sites

Qualifications

• Significant experience post registration in hospital pharmacy.
• Knowledge of mental health prescribing issues in primary and secondary care.

Responsibilities

• Manage band 8a pharmacists delivering clinical services.
• Monitor and analyse medicine-related data, clinical audits, and incident reports.
• Develop business plans and ensure safe handling of medicines.

Skills

Clinical Pharmacy

Mental Health Therapeutics

Leadership

Service Transformation

Education

Post graduate diploma in clinical/community pharmacy

Post graduate certificate in psychiatric therapeutics

Job description

Job summary

Are you looking for a new challenge? Want to be part of an innovative transforming and forward-thinking team?

We can offer a generous relocation package of up to £8000 subject to terms and conditions.

Support to undertake a Master of Business Administration (MBA) or Professional Doctorate in mental health.

We are a multi-award-winning team with a strong focus on supporting individuals to achieve their full potential. This is an exciting time to join us as we are in the process of successfully deploying EMIS Electronic Prescribing Medicines Administration (EPMA) system.

We are looking for an experienced, ambitious and forward-thinking individual who has experience in hospital pharmacy to help shape and drive patient care and innovation across mental health services.

You will support the delivery of clinical pharmacy service provision across hospital and community services ensuring that clinical service provision is optimised. You will ideally have postgraduate qualifications or experience in mental health therapeutics.

It is expected that the successful applicant will be an experienced clinical pharmacist with a substantial track record of providing or supporting service transformation.

Main duties of the job

• Manage band 8a pharmacists across the corporate team, to deliver clinical services and medicines optimisation, including audit and monitoring.
• The post holder will assist with partnership working with community, hospital pharmacy and primary care networks to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload.
• Monitor, analyse, interpret and provide advice on medicines related data, clinical audit and incident reports e.g. ePACT data etc, and arrange for cascade to managers and staff as appropriate.
• Support services to fulfil the medicines optimisation requirements of the Care Quality Commission (CQC), including developing and reviewing standard operating procedures (SOPs), medicine guidelines / protocols and clinical guidelines, in conjunction with the Governance & Community Pharmacist.
• Work with the Deputy Director of Pharmacy & Medicines Optimisation - Mental Health, to develop the service's annual business plan, training plan and leads and supports medium-long term planning in order to meet financial or performance targets, e.g. CIP and national standards.
• Responsible for systems to ensure the safe and legal handling of medicines.
• Works closely with direct reports to provide robust systems and processes to influence evidence-based and best-value prescribing.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications

Job description

Job responsibilities

Before applying for this challenging and rewarding role we encourage you to view the full job description and person specification.

Job description
Job responsibilities

Before applying for this challenging and rewarding role we encourage you to view the full job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Post graduate diploma in clinical/community pharmacy or equivalent experience
• Post graduate certificate in psychiatric therapeutics or equivalent

Desirable

• Leadership & management qualification

Experience

Essential

• Substantial experience post registration
• Knowledge of mental health prescribing issues in primary and secondary care

Desirable

• setting up new services

Person Specification
Qualifications

Essential

• Post graduate diploma in clinical/community pharmacy or equivalent experience
• Post graduate certificate in psychiatric therapeutics or equivalent

Desirable

• Leadership & management qualification

Experience

Essential

• Substantial experience post registration
• Knowledge of mental health prescribing issues in primary and secondary care

Desirable

• setting up new services

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.
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Additional information
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address

Stafford or Redwood

Somerby Drive, Bicton Heath,

Shropshire

SY3 8DS

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