Specialist Clinical Pharmacist (Mental Health)

Job overview

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic pharmacist to join our progressive, pharmacy team. Your role would be to provide high quality pharmaceutical care to inpatient and community mental health service users in Leeds by way of clinical interventions, medicines information and education and training. We have four sites across Leeds each with a subspecialty, which as part of a rotation you will gain extensive experience of. You will ideally have had some experience of working in secondary care although not essential. Good organisational and communication skills are essential as is an interest in mental health. Applications from pharmacists working in all sectors welcome. In return, we will support your personal and continued professional development in general and mental health pharmacy by way of in-house training or postgraduate programmes as relevant.

Alternatively for further information and informal discussion contact Michael Dixon ( Lead Pharmacist) on telephone 07929 015383 (michael.dixon1@nhs.net) or Alex Hoang Advanced Clinical Pharmacist – Older age psychiatry 07971 882505 (alex.hoang@nhs.net )

Main duties of the job

As a specialist clinical pharmacist in LYPFT, you will develop medicines knowledge and skills with the support of a training programme to advise clinical and healthcare teams on the safe and appropriate use of mental health medicines. You will have a clinical role working with ward / community hub clinical teams and also work independently to support medicines optimisation for service users of LYPFT. You will have opportunities to develop your training skills and educate yourself and others with regards to mental health medicines, develop your leadership and operational management skills and take part in quality improvement and service developments. We have a range of general and specialist mental health services including inpatient Adult and Older Peoples, Forensic, Recovery and Rehabilitation and community and primary care mental health services to the population of Leeds, forensic and CAMHS services to the population of York and tertiary specialist services such as Child and Adolescent Services and the National Inpatient Centre for Psychological Medicine for you to gain exposure of and experience within.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a specialist clinical pharmacist, your role includes providing pharmacy and medicines related care to allocated clinical areas to ensure medicines prescribed are safe, effective, optimised and appropriate. You will work as an integral member of the Multidisciplinary Team (s) but also independently to identify and respond to medicines related queries, speak with service users/carers about medication and support the efficient operational delivery of the pharmacy service. You will also develop your training experience and provide medicines related training to service users and staff. You will also be encouraged and supported to contribute and help implement service developments, audit and research. In order to gain a rounded experience of mental health pharmacy, you will undertake rotations across LYPFT and be required to participate in the on call and weekend rota working at one of our inpatient sites. You will also have the opportunity to be involved in the development of other trainee pharmacy colleagues.

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.