Senior Clinical Pharmacist Community Mental Health Band 8a
Pennine Care NHS Foundation TrustAlready thinking ahead to interview?
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Job overview
We have an excellent opportunity for a Senior Mental Health Pharmacist to join our expanding community mental health offer. You will work with the Specialist Neighbourhood Mental Health Team in Oldham, acting as a key contributor to the multi-disciplinary team to support safe, effective and evidence based treatment to patients with severe and enduring mental illness.
The post-holder will act as a prescriber and be responsible for developing the clinical pharmacy service and medication related pathway within the borough.
There is no dispensary or out of hours commitment, providing the perfect opportunity for you to develop your clinical skills and broaden your mental health knowledge and experience.
Main duties of the job
To deliver the established Clinical Pharmacy Service to the Specialist Neigbourhood Mental Health team in Oldham and to provide, manage, organise and develop the clinical pharmacy across your borough.
To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate specialist clinical mental health pharmacy services in your area.
To provide expert pharmaceutical advice and liaison to the Specialist Neighbourhood Mental Health Team, GPs, practice pharmacists, other healthcare professionals (HCPs), patients, and carers.
To lead on the non-medical prescribing pathway within the Specialist Neighbourhood Mental Health Services and act as an independent prescriber of medication, ensuring that drug therapy is evidence based, safe, cost effective and appropriate to the individual patient.
To provide training to the Specialist Neighbourhood Mental Health Team, GPs and other HCPs within Primary Care around the use of psychotropic medicines.
To ensure that pharmacy services work within agreed guidelines to ensure effective medicines management.
To provide cover for other pharmacists providing a service to and employed by Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, as requested.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will provide, manage, organise and develop the clinical pharmacy services to the Specialist Neighbourhood Mental Health Team in the Oldham borough.
The main responsibilities are covered in the job description.