Specialist Pharmacist Inpatient Mental Health - Northwest Sussex

Integrated Care System; Crawley; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health trust is looking for a Specialist Pharmacist to join their expanding pharmacy team. This role involves providing clinical pharmacy services, ensuring patient safety, and engaging in medicines education. An excellent opportunity for those passionate about mental healthcare, with possibilities for career advancement.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Access to psychological support

Generous holiday entitlement

Excellent NHS Pension Scheme

Discount schemes for gyms, shopping, etc.

Qualifications

• GPhC registration required.
• Degree in Pharmacy from British University or recognised equivalent.
• Experience in mental health clinical pharmacy preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation services.
• Work within multidisciplinary teams to ensure patient safety and care.
• Educate patients and staff about drug usage.

Skills

Communication

Patient Care

Medicines Education

Education

Degree in Pharmacy

GPhC Registration

Tools

Pharmacy Computer Systems

Job description

If you are enthusiastic and passionate about improving the lives of patients in need of mental healthcare treatment, then this role as a Specialist Pharmacist in our Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Trust could be right for you. We have an exciting opportunity for an innovative, skilled clinical pharmacist to work as a core member of inpatient and rehab teams across the Northwest Sussex.

You should have an interest for working within a specialist mental health service, an understanding of the medicines used and and an awareness of the people we support and care for. The role will primarily be based at Langley Green Hospital.

The post holder will be supported to undertake further accreditations as appropriate, and there are opportunities to develop the role and service to the inpatient wards and urgent care, allowing your vision for clinical care to grow with the service in a collaborative, holistic and accessible therapeutic environment.

You will be joining a friendly, supportive Pharmacy team which is highly regarded in the Trust and is rapidly expanding due to recent significant investments. This role is a great opportunity to start or continue a career in mental health and can lead to a future senior role.

The pharmacy leadership team is committed to education and training of the pharmacy workforce and will provide access to external training (including the introductory College of Mental Health Pharmacy Psych1 and Psych 2 programme).

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide a clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation service to ensure patients get the best from their medicines, as well as a strong commitment to medicines education and training so that patients, pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals are well informed and able to manage their use of medicines correctly, safely and cost effectively.

The role requires an excellent clinical communicator with an interest in patient facing and multidisciplinary team working. In addition, the appraisal of clinical evidence and generation of high quality pharmacotherapeutic advice to support colleagues will feature as a core part of working.

Inpatient services increasingly interface with community services and primary care partners to ensure the best transition across primary and secondary care. Pharmacist input into these processes is crucial to maintain medicines safety and optimisation.

There is currently no commitment to weekend or dispensary working. On call is for advice only and is currently more than 1 in 30 weeks, with senior support provided and only band 7 and above are on the on-call rota.

About us

Sussex Partnership is one of the largest mental health trusts in the UK. We are a friendly and committed pharmacy team, who are keen to support the wellbeing of our patients and each other.

About us

As a mental health trust, Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do.

You can expect:

• Access to full psychological support, the wellbeing team
• Flexible working opportunities
• Access to a host of discount schemes (including gyms, shopping, restaurants and cars)
• A position within a trust rated as Outstanding for caring and Good overall by the CQC
• Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)
• Excellent NHS Pension Scheme

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification. If you have any queries please feel free to contact to discuss further.

Person Specification

Information resources and technology

• Demonstrates IT competency including use of pharmacy computer systems

Registration and qualification

• GPhC registration
• Degree in Pharmacy from British University or recognised equivalent
• Experience of Band 6 rotational post

Knowledge & Experience

• Experience of working with a range of healthcare professionals
• Experience in providing both written and verbal information on drug usage
• Experience in carrying out Medicines Information queries, providing both verbal and written specialist advice
• Mental Health Clinical Pharmacy Experience

Communication Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrate ability to work well as a team
• Experience of supervising other staff members
• Experience of audit

Values and behaviours

• Demonstrates enthusiasm, good interpersonal skills, reliability, flexibility and motivation
• Ability to work independently

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.

Lead Pharmacist Northwest Sussex (Inpatient)

Full-time,Flexible working,Compressed hours