Specialist Clinical Pharmacist

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LPFT NHS); Lincoln; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training and promotion opportunities

Flexible working options

Job summary

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a clinical pharmacist to provide patient-facing pharmaceutical care on inpatient wards and in community teams, with a focus on mental health.

The role may start at Band 6 with a development pathway to Band 7, supported by a PG certificate and diploma competency framework. We offer leadership development, flexible working, and ongoing training opportunities.

Qualifications

• Registered pharmacist with current GPhC registration.
• Clinical and patient-facing focus.
• Experience in mental health pharmacy desirable.

Responsibilities

• Take local responsibility for pharmacist services to allocated clinical areas in line with rotas.
• Review stock lists regularly, considering usage, costs and prescribing trends.
• Provide pharmacist cover to other clinical areas as required.
• Review prescriptions and advise on medicines, side-effects, dosages, administration, supply, storage and destruction.
• Ensure Mental Health Act paperwork (T2, T3 and CTOs) is accurate and follow up anomalies.
• Contribute to multidisciplinary team meetings and influence treatment plans; promote medicines management and evidence-based prescribing.

Skills

Clinical pharmacist

Leadership

Mental health pharmacy

Patient-facing

Education

Pharmacy degree

Job description

Are you a clinical pharmacist with a passion for delivering outstanding care that brings the 6 Cs (care, compassion, commitment, courage, communication and competence) to life? If so, we want to hear from you. We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated pharmacist with a clinical and patient-facing focus to join our established and friendly Pharmacy team.

You will be responsible for delivering a clinical service on our inpatient wards and within our community teams. An excellent leadership and clinical development package will be on offer for our successful candidates as we aim to invest in our staff to deliver high standards of care to our patients.

This is a clinical role and a great opportunity for pharmacists from a variety of backgrounds to gain experience in mental health pharmacy.

Depending on experience, this post will either be a developmental post (band 6 role which will develop into a B7 as the postholder will be supported through a PG certificate and diploma competency framework) or direct into a band 7 role.

• Take local responsibility for pharmacist services to allocated clinical areas in line with rotas.
• Review any relevant stock lists regularly, taking into consideration usage, service resilience, overall costs and prescribing trends.
• Provide Pharmacist Cover To Other Clinical Areas As Required.
• Review prescriptions and information relating to individual patients and provide relevant advice about medicines, possible side-effects, dosages, administration, supply, storage and destruction.
• Ensure Mental Health Act paperwork i.e. T2's, T3'S and CTO's is accurate and follow up where there are anomalies in line with departmental procedures.
• Contribute to multi-disciplinary working within the allocated clinical area including participation in meetings, influencing the formulation and review of treatment plans and ensuring safe and effective pharmaceutical treatment appropriate for the individuals or groups. Promote best practice in medicines management, medicines optimisation and evidence-based prescribing.

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions.

We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.

Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.