Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Community Mental Health Teams

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our clinical pharmacy team at South London and the Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust working primarily within the Croydon Community Mental Health Teams. Community transformation is well underway and in SLaM, pharmacy services are in integral part of community care. You will able to be part of this exciting change towards care closer to home and provide direct patient care within the neighbourhood.

We expect the post-holder to have experience of mental health pharmacy services and some knowledge of community care (GP, community or CMHTs) to provide seamless care during this period of community transformation.

The post-holder will be part of the pharmacy team at the Bethlem Royal Hospital which also serves the Ladywell Unit in Lewisham, and community mental health teams across Lewisham and Croydon. You may be required to travel to any of these sites on occasion.

We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. Once established in post, there are further opportunities for development and career progression in a variety of settings, for example education and training, quality improvement, research, clinical trials, independent prescribing and more.

Main duties of the job

You will provide pharmaceutical care to inpatients and community patients within South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, as well as work in our main dispensary. You will join the on-call rota and late duty rota where applicable. You may be required to travel to various hospital and community mental health teams sites.

You will be supported by a dedicated supervisor and will have the opportunity to undertake short courses on mental health pharmacy and work alongside expert pharmacists in the field.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide an expert pharmacy service to SLAM community mental health teams and home treatment teams •    To have medicines related consultations with patients and carers; involve patients in treatment decisions; improve patient and carer satisfaction with information they receive about medicines •    To improve physical health outcomes for community mental health patients, for example by participating in vaccination programmes, physical health clinics and physical health monitoring programmes •    To support the community teams to use medicines safely and effectively and reduce medicines wastage •    To implement medicines optimisation and quality improvement programmes in the teams •    To provide medicines related training to community mental health team staff and other members of the pharmacy team •    To prescribe medicines to service users within competence and agreed management plans •    To participate in the inpatient or dispensary service on a rotational basis where required to by the site lead pharmacist