Senior Mental Health Pharmacist – Inpatient

Job overview

Are you a highly motivated and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist with a keen interest and previous experience in mental health?

Opened in 2023, the Woodview Unit is a newly refurbished in-patient mental health unit in Whalley which will have a total of 47 beds including 12 Male, 27 Female and an 8 bedded Male Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit. These additional beds complement those on the Pendleview Unit, Royal Blackburn Hospital.

The Woodview Unit is designed with extensive input from service users and clinicians and is based on ‘safety by design’ to ensure that it can provide high quality care. The ethos of the unit is to provide therapeutic care which is empowering, person-centred and needs led, and focuses on promoting recovery and independence.

In addition the site also has three IPC (Individual Packages of Care) homes that require pharmaceutical input and are housed on the same site.

We are looking to recruit an experienced mental health pharmacist to join our friendly, innovative and supportive clinical pharmacy team. As the successful candidate you will be responsible for the delivery of a high quality, pro-active and patient focused clinical pharmacy service to the new in-patient mental health unit.

Main duties of the job

Key components of the role include:

• Clinical review of prescriptions and patient-orientated medication review
• Provision of specialist pharmaceutical advice to multi-disciplinary teams
• Involvement of patients in decisions about their medicines to support adherence and improve outcomes
• Potential to utilise non-medical prescribing skills within the role outline
• Opportunity to influence the development of services to improve patient care through service redesign
• Participation in clinical audit and service evaluation
• Line management of junior pharmacy staff
• Contribution to the training and development of junior pharmacy team members and other members of the multi-disciplinary team
• Participation in the clinical supervision programme
• Input to the development of policies and procedures and treatment guidelines
• Contribute to initiatives to improve medicines safety

You will have current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council, a postgraduate pharmacy qualification or equivalent experience, and post registration experience in mental health.

Due to the location of various units, an ability and willingness to travel around Trust locations is required.

The post does not require weekend working or an on-call commitment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more details on this vacancy please review the attached job description and person specification.

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.