Community Transformation Lead Pharmacist

Job overview

The pharmacy department is recruiting a Community Transformation Lead pharmacist to become part of our friendly, patient centred team based in the Lambeth Community Mental Health Teams (CMHTs).

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced mental  health pharmacist to join our dynamic, innovative team who are dedicated to improving our community services across the Trust, by leading the Lambeth community pharmacist team. You will work with the site lead pharmacist for the Lambeth  Hospital which provide the dispensing services to Lambeth, and also the Trust Community Transformation Pharmacist Team to ensure Trust-wide quality improvement projects and high-quality pharmacy services are implemented, delivered and continually improved for patients in our communities.

We are looking for someone with experience and a passion for this area of with natural leadership qualities. Your role will involve delivering outcomes for patients with a focus on preventing hospital admissions both for mental and physical ill health, improved medicines management and communication, particularly during transfer of care.

You must have excellent communication skills and be able to influence prescribing and medicines practice at a high level. You must be able to collect, analyse and report on data in a meaningful way to gain co-operation from stakeholders and present your work at Trust meetings in a confident, friendly and enthusiastic manner

Main duties of the job

As a Community Transformation Lead Pharmacist, you will be working closely with senior and junior prescribers, care co-ordinators and other members of the MDT to ensure safe, effective and cost-effective use of medicines.

You will make recommendations for initiating, changing and stopping medications, including where appropriate, that clozapine and antipsychotic long acting injections are offered early in the treatment journey. You will consult with patients and their carers to ensure they receive expert advice on their medicines and are supported to manage their medicines.

You will work closely with teams, managers, and service directors to implement sustainable processes to ensure positive outcomes for patients and their carers.

We expect you to have a good knowledge of psychotropic medications and the ability to independently make appropriate decisions about treatment options. You should be able to communicate clinical information effectively and be able to influence prescribing practices in your boroughs. We expect that you would manage your own time and work schedule effectively.

Flexible working:

As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide leadership and management to the senior clinical pharmacists working in SLAM community mental health teams
• To provide an expert pharmacy service to SLAM community mental health team
• To work with the borough MDTs to ensure effective and appropriate medicines use
• To lead on patient-centred quality improvement projects targeted at preventing hospital admissions and improved care in the community
• To lead on patient-centred quality improvement projects targeted at improving physical health outcomes for community mental health patients
• To record interventions, outcomes and relevant data to evaluate and ensure services deliver on outcomes and provide value for money
• To liaise with primary care, acute trusts, HTTs and wards, as necessary.
• To provide a clinic for patients and carers to discuss medication.
• To implement medicines optimisation programme in the teams
• To provide medicines related training to staff in community teams, as necessary.
• To prescribe medicines to service users within competence and agreed management plan
• To record and analyse data for agreed outcome measures.