Bank Clinical Pharmacist Band 7

Job overview

Bank Clinical Pharmacist- mental health hospital experience required

Band 7

Up to full time hours

Working at St Georges Hospital Stafford or Redwoods Shrewsbury.

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Main duties of the job

To ensure patients receive seamless pharmaceutical care both throughout their admission to hospital and following discharge into assigned community mental/physical health teams. This post involves being part of a team of specialist clinical pharmacists playing an active role in inpatient multidisciplinary teams and a significant amount of patient/carer contact.. This post involves playing an active role in inpatient and community multidisciplinary teams and a significant amount of patient/carer contact.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description for full details.

Deliver a high quality, patient-centred clinical pharmacist service to inpatient wards within MPFT.

• Ensure patients receive seamless pharmaceutical care through transitions of MPFT care.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Provide specialist advice and information about medicines and their use to patients, carers and the public.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.