Specialist Clinical Pharmacist – Mental Health Services

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist in Mental Health Services. You will lead and develop clinical pharmacy services, ensuring safe and effective patient care. This role offers opportunities across various mental health services and values your expertise in a supportive environment. If you are passionate about mental health and innovation, we want to hear from you.

Qualifications

• Experience in mental health pharmacy is preferred.
• Ability to work autonomously while inspiring others.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver mental health clinical pharmacy services.
• Provide safe and effective person-centred care.
• Support the out of hours medicines advisory service.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Autonomy

Mental Health Innovation

Job description

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Are you a skilled and experienced Pharmacist ready to take the next step in your career? Join our dynamic, innovative and person-centred team delivering outstanding clinical pharmacy services.

You will lead, develop and deliver mental health clinical pharmacy services. Working closely with multi-disciplinary teams, you’ll provide safe, effective and person-centred care that makes a real difference.

Opportunities available across mental health inpatient, secure and learning disability services. You’ll work in a supportive environment where your expertise is valued, and your ideas encouraged.

We’re looking for proactive professionals with excellent leadership and communication skills, the ability to work autonomously while inspiring others, and a passion for mental health innovation.

At the heart of everything we do are our values (continuous improvement, accountability, respect, enthusiasm, support). If you share these and you’re ready to make a genuine impact, we’d love to hear from you.

This clinically focussed role will include occasional dispensary cover and includes a requirement to support the out of hours medicines advisory service and weekend working (9.30am-1.30pm) to maintain a minimum 1 in12 rota.

We welcome applications from pharmacists with experience from any sector who have interest and empathy for mental health pharmacy.

Bank positions also available.

You will be a valued member of Medicines Management team and a core member of multi-disciplinary teams providing a clinical pharmacy service to our in-patient mental health services.

You will help to deliver and develop ward-based medicines management activities to promote the effective and efficient use of medicines, improving patient care and minimising waste. You will work as part of the Medicines Management team and be a core member of the inpatient multi-disciplinary team providing a clinical pharmacy service to in-patient areas.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Laura Thompson Job title: Clinical Services Lead Pharmacist Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07825431772

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Health, Wellness & Fitness

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