Specialist Clinical Pharmacist in Mental Health

www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk - Jobboard; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Shrewsbury is looking for a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist in Mental Health. In this role, you will deliver high-quality, patient-centred services to inpatient mental health wards and ensure seamless pharmaceutical care. The ideal candidate will provide expert advice to healthcare professionals and conduct consultations with patients and caregivers, making a significant impact in mental health care.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality, patient-centred clinical pharmacist service to inpatient MH wards.
• Ensure seamless pharmaceutical care through transitions of MPFT care.
• Provide specialist advice and information about medicines to healthcare professionals.
• Conduct regular consultations about medicines with patients and carers.

Job description

Specialist Clinical Pharmacist in Mental Health

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Clinical service delivery
2. Deliver a high quality, patient-centred clinical pharmacist service to inpatient MH wards within MPFT.
3. Ensure patients receive seamless pharmaceutical care through transitions of MPFT care.
4. Visit allocated wards and community team bases to regularly review medicines cards and professionally check prescriptions, thereby ensuring compliance with UK and European medicines legislation, SPCs, national guidance, MPFT policies, procedures, formulary and guidelines.
5. Provide specialist advice and information about medicines and their use to medical, nursing and other healthcare professionals, thereby contributing to their safe, effective and economical use.
6. Provide pharmaceutical input at multi-disciplinary team meetings, rapid review meetings and community team meetings where necessary, undertaking patient medication histories and devising pharmaceutical care plans.
7. Provide specialist advice and information about medicines and their use to patients, carers and the public.
8. Conduct regular 1:1 consultations about medicines with patients and carers.
9. Promote the concept of shared decision making and patient choice at all times.
10. Ensure the follow-up and accurate completion of technician-led medicines reconciliation in a timely manner following admission to hospital in line with the MPFT policy for Medicines Reconciliation.

Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application. Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.