Senior Mental Health Pharmacist East Hampshire

Job summary
Are you an experienced pharmacist seeking new challenges?

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, and highly motivated pharmacist to join our friendly medicines management team as the Senior Mental Health Pharmacist for the East Hampshire area team. You will work with the Senior Physical Health Pharmacist and other pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who provide clinical pharmacy services to the Mental Health and Physical Health teams in East Hampshire supporting in-patient and community settings.

Ideally you will have experience in mental health pharmacy and working in secondary care services, but you may have transferrable skills from other areas of pharmacy. Full funding is available for post-graduate certificates and diplomas in clinical and psychiatric pharmacy, independent prescribing and attendance at conferences and courses such as those provided by the College of Mental Health Pharmacy.

You will join our wider progressive and forward-thinking Medicines Management Team who are developing new ways of delivering high-quality care. As part of a current restructure the team is aiming to support the strategic goals of the 'Left Shift' namely:

• Hospital to community
• Sickness prevention
• Analogue to digital

There is no requirement to work late nights, on-call, Bank Holidays or at weekends

Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:

• To ensure the provision of a consistently high-quality, safe, responsive and patient focused pharmacy service for patients within inpatient and community settings.
• To support and implement the NHS Left Shift agenda by developing proactive, preventative and community based clinical pharmacy services that enhance patient outcomes, reduce hospital demand and improve continuity of care across inpatient and community settings.
• To lead on quality improvement projects for pharmacy alongside other senior pharmacists and HCPs.
• To co-ordinate medicine related audits.
• To support pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in delivery of a clinical/operational service to inpatients and community teams.
• To provide specialist advice on pharmaceutical matters undertaking risk management and ensuring compliance with medicines legislation.
• To work with primary care and secondary providers to improve medicines management across the interface.
• To attend relevant meetings to present reports including data on quality, governance, finances and performance.
• To attend and contribute to the Trust's Senior Pharmacy Management meetings.
• To attend and contribute to the Trust's Medicines Management group as needed.
• To provide line management for pharmacists and/or pharmacy technicians
• To provide cover for other senior pharmacists and other pharmacy team members including at different locations across the Trust.
• Additional portfolio as agreed with the Chief Pharmacist.

About us
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job responsibilities
The post holder will lead and develop clinical pharmacy services within the local team's defined areas of responsibility including both community and inpatient workstreams. The post holder will focus on mental health on a day-to-day basis but will be able to lead in both areas. They will oversee the implementation and ongoing monitoring of the Trust's clinical pharmacy standards, ensuring that services are consistently high quality, safe, and patient centred.

The role will involve proactively identifying service gaps and areas for improvement, using appropriate tools and methodologies--including quality improvement approaches--to drive service development and optimise patient outcomes.

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Qualifications
Essential

• Master of Pharmacy degree or equivalent
• General Pharmaceutical Council registered pharmacist.
• Postgraduate Diploma (or MSc) in Clinical Pharmacy Practice or equivalent experience.

Desirable

• Independent Prescriber qualification

Experience
Essential

• Significant post-registration experience working as a clinical pharmacist in the NHS.
• Proven experience of good performance in previous posts, where relevant
• Ability to recommend, substantiate and communicate medicine related information to, patients, carers and clinical staff appropriately
• Clinical Audit.
• Training of other staff.
• Staff management experience
• Setting objectives and appraisal techniques

Desirable

• Monitoring and advising on drug expenditure
• Set up and /or run a service
• Providing teaching sessions to pharmacy and other staff

Additional Criteria
Essential

• Please see full JD

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.