Specialist Pharmacist Mental Health - Brighton and Hove

NHS; Hove; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mental health trust in Brighton and Hove is seeking a Specialist Pharmacist to join their dedicated pharmacy team. This role involves providing clinical pharmacy services, ensuring the effective use of medicines, and supporting patient education. Candidates should have a degree in Pharmacy and relevant experience. Opportunities for further training and career development are available. This position also offers flexible working arrangements and generous benefits.

Benefits

Access to psychological support

Flexible working opportunities

Discount schemes

Generous holiday entitlement

Excellent NHS Pension Scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical pharmacy practice.
• Experience with Medicines Information queries.
• Strong commitment to medicines education and training.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical pharmacy service to community patients.
• Ensure optimum use of medicines through education.
• Interface with primary care and manage referrals.

Skills

Clinical pharmacy practice

Patient-facing communication

Multidisciplinary team collaboration

Medicines optimisation

Education

Degree in Pharmacy

GPhC registration

Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy Practice

Membership to College of Mental Health Pharmacists

Job description

Specialist Pharmacist Mental Health - Brighton and Hove

Are you enthusiastic and passionate about improving the lives of patients with mental health conditions? A 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 our community teams across Brighton and Hove.

You should have an interest in working within a specialist mental health service, an understanding of the medicines used and patients we care for. The role will be based at the Trust community treatment clinics but also include home visitation across the Brighton and Hove area.

The post holder will be supported to undertake further accreditation and training as appropriate, and there are many opportunities to develop the role and service to fit in with our new Neighbourhood Mental Health Team (NMHT) structure, 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. This role represents a great opportunity to start or continue a career in mental health and can lead to future senior roles.

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 Psych 1 and Psych 2 programme).

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide a clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation service to ensure patients in the community get the best from their medicines, with 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.

Community services increasingly interface with primary care partners to ensure both the transition of care and the triage and receipt of referred patients; pharmacist input into these processes is crucial to maintain medicines safety and optimisation.

There is currently no commitment to weekend or dispensary working. The On-call service is for advice only and is currently more than 1 in 30 weeks, with senior support provided.

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.

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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

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

Qualifications

• Degree in Pharmacy from British University or recognised equivalent
• GPhC registration
• Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy Practice
• Membership to College of Mental Health Pharmacists (CMHP)

Knowledge, Training and Experience

• Experience of working in clinical pharmacy practice
• Experience in carrying out Medicines Information queries, for both verbal and written specialist advice

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.

Associate Divisional Director Pharmacy Brighton

Full-time,Part-time,Flexible working,Compressed hours