Advanced Pharmacist - Community Mental Health and Assertive Outreach

Job overview

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated  pharmacist to undertake a key clinical role within our community mental health and assertive outreach teams.

Our pharmacists play an integral role as members of the multi-disciplinary team and this post will suit a pharmacist wishing to join an inclusive and friendly working environment to improve medicines optimisation for our patients.

The ideal candidate will have a commitment to teamwork, a sense of  accountability, plus an ability to work under pressure.

We will provide the necessary support to ensure your development within your role.

The pharmacy team has various bases across the county and the successful candidate will be based at one of them with some flexibility for hybrid working, if agreed.  It is essential to be able to travel to various sites across the Trust.

Main duties of the job

The Advanced Clinical Pharmacist – Community Mental Health and Assertive Outreach will work within community mental health teams and join our new assertive outreach team to help shape a service that makes a real difference for adults with severe and enduring mental health needs.

This is an exciting opportunity to work with individuals who find it difficult to engage with traditional services, often facing challenges such as substance misuse, homelessness, or social isolation.

You will be part of a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team, providing flexible, and person-centred support to patients and service users as well as supporting a system approach to mental health medicines optimisation and management.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

• Identification of appropriate cohorts of patients for medication review including patients on complex medication regimes and possibly unsafe high-risk medication regimes.  2. Support individual patients to reduce medicines associated risk and support structured deprescribing of any medicines that are no longer deemed necessary for individual patients.   3. Undertake independent prescribing as appropriate for individual patients.   4. Participation in multidisciplinary team meetings or case conferences to identify medication problems and provide advice.  5. Conducting medication education sessions for patients and carers, either on a one to-one or group basis.  6. Interpreting medicines information to provide advice for individual circumstances.  7. Giving prescribing advice to medical staff and non-medical prescribers especially when complex problems arise with medication combinations and doses.  8. Advising on medicines risk management issues such as the reduction of medication incidents and ensuring compliance with medicines legislation.  9. Giving medicines optimisation and management advice to medical, nursing and other staff, and medicines information to all members of staff.  10. Undertaking teaching sessions on medication and related medication management issues for other professionals.