Bank Senior Clinical Pharmacist Mental Health

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About the Trust

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.

Our ambition is to maximise people's potential and we aim to promote an inclusive environment and improve the diversity of our workforce so our people truly represent the communities we serve.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

1. Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
2. Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
3. Access to Continued Professional Development
4. Involvement in improvement and research activities
5. Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
6. Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel

If you are Kind, Fair, Ingenious and Determined then we want you to come and join our #PennineCarePeople

https://www.penninecare.nhs.uk/values

Job overview

We have an excellent opportunity for a part time senior clinical pharmacist to join our mental health pharmacy team. You will work in a small team based on service need. Areas include the in-patient, home treatment team, community mental health team and living well units with 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 provide, manage, organise and develop the clinical pharmacy service to the allocated area of Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust to cover for gaps in senior leadership

To ensure that the clinical pharmacy service provided meets with the national standards for the delivery of the pharmaceutical services to mental health.

To ensure that all developments required for the pharmacy service are implemented and learning spread trust wide

To ensure that pharmacy services work within agreed guidelines to ensure effective medicines management

To ensure the delivery of effective medicines management in conjunction with medical and nursing staff.

To ensure the implementation of all Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust policies and procedures that impact on medicines management and pharmaceutical care.

To work in close liaison with other pharmacists and technical staff providing a pharmacy service to Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust under Service Level Agreement (SLA), to ensure the delivery and supply of medication to the mental health wards, departments and units.

To work with the Chief Pharmacist to ensure that there is liaison with the Service Directors and/ or medical manager about medicines management issues, as necessary.

To provide cover for other pharmacists providing a service to and employed by Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, as requested.

Working for our organisation

You will be supported by a lively clinical pharmacy team who are dedicated to delivering excellent services. You will receive clinical and and management supervision and have opportunities to develop yourself and the role through education, training, team meetings and opportunities such as Quality Improvement and audit. You will be supported to undertake further qualifications as needed such as non medical prescribing. The role is entirely clinical with no dispensary, out of hours or on call commitment

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To act as the specialist mental health pharmacist for the clinical pharmacy service to the allocated area including mental health wards, departments and home treatment teams.

To conduct clinical pharmacy visits to the allocated PCFT area.

To review prescriptions to ensure safe and effective prescribing and appropriate to the individual patients and to recommend the monitoring of mental and physical health, as necessary.

To attend multi-disciplinary team meetings to advise on matters relating to choice and use of medicines and carry out any necessary preparatory work to maximise pharmaceutical input.

To prepare drug history reports for patients detailing positive, negative and adverse responses to past treatment and making recommendations for future treatment strategies.

To act as an expert source of pharmaceutical advice for health and social care staff, patients and carers and provide a clinical pharmaceutical service when medical information is conflicting

To answer queries about medication from other healthcare professionals using critical appraisal skills so that the information provided is evidence based.

To ensure that the medication provided to the mental health wards and units are stored appropriately to main quality and potency.

To ensure that any concerns in prescribing practice are highlighted to the South network lead pharmacist so that appropriate action can be taken.

To provide advice to medical, nursing and other healthcare professionals on the actions and properties of drugs and on their safe and effective use, ensuring an evidence-based approach.

To handle urgent clinical queries and prioritise tasks according to the level of urgency.

To monitor ward drug usage.

To promote economical drug usage.

To participate in and oversee the development of clinical audit both within the pharmaceutical service and as part of multi-disciplinary audit.

To ensure that medication error reports are reported via the Ulysses Risk Management System.

To ensure that any trends in relation to medication errors are brought to the attention of the network lead pharmacist and support the role of the medication safety officer

To ensure that any information required by staff working within the mental health wards and units on medicines is provided and that the resources are available to provide the information.

Person specification

essential

Essential criteria

• Current member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Masters degree in Pharmacy (or pre-2000 equivalent)
• masters level of equivalent
• Relevant management qualification or equivalent experience
• Evidence of CPD and commitment to life-long learning and evidence of extensive post Masters experience

Desirable criteria

• developing policies and strategies

essential and desireable

Essential criteria

• Current member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Masters degree in Pharmacy (or pre-2000 equivalent)
• Relevant post graduate qualification, i.e. Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice
• undertaken audits
• Experience in a number of areas of psychiatric pharmacy practice
• Experience in initiating, leading and implementing change and new developments

Desirable criteria

• developing policies and strategies
• Independent prescriber
• CMHP credentialed

shortlisting

Essential criteria

• Current member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Masters degree in Pharmacy (or pre-2000 equivalent)
• masters level of equivalent
• Relevant management qualification or equivalent experience

Desirable criteria

• developing policies and strategies

person specfication

Essential criteria

• Current member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Masters degree in Pharmacy (or pre-2000 equivalent)
• Relevant post graduate qualification, i.e. Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice
• Experience in a number of areas of psychiatric pharmacy practice
• Experience in initiating, leading and implementing change and new developments

Desirable criteria

• developing policies and strategies
• Independent prescriber
• CMHP credentialed

A hints and tips document is attached below for guidance on completing your application form.

Disclosure Barring Certificate check

All of our new starters, who are appointed to a post which requires a Disclosure Barring Certificate check (DBS), will be recharged for the full cost of the check (DBS checks for volunteers are free of charge).

An enhanced DBS check costs £38 and a standard check costs £18 (plus an administration charge of £3.50). If you are a substantive member of staff, the full amount will be taken from your first month's salary.

If you are a member of staff on our bank, you will need to repay the full amount from your first salary.

We encourage you to register with the DBS update service at an annual cost of £13 (this is mandatory for bank staff).

Other important information

• We are committed to equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and recognise the importance of ensuring our diverse service user population is reflected within our workforce. Unfortunately, we know that, at present, there is underrepresentation of our communities in our workforce. We welcome applications from people from diverse communities to help us grow, learn, be better and consider brilliant innovation diverse people bring.
• Priority will be given to applications from existing NHS employees who have an at risk status
• This post is on our terms and conditions (T&Cs). If you are an existing employee currently on transferred terms and conditions (i.e. you transferred from another employer and retained their T&Cs) and you are voluntarily applying for this post; if you are successful, you will be employed on our T&Cs
• You will be informed about the progress of your application following shortlisting. Only applicants who clearly demonstrate the criteria listed in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview
• We will notify you by email if you have been shortlisted or not. Computer access is available at your local job centre or library. Please make sure you check your spam filter/junk folder. If any mail goes to your junk folder please mark it as safe
• If you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme, you will be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria on the person specification for the post
• If you require reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process please phone us on 0161 716 3181 at the earliest opportunity. We will support you to complete your application
• We reserve the right to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received
• Unfortunately we are not able to guarantee the transfer of lease cars, or cover the costs of early termination charges.
• We have a strict policy on unsolicited contact from recruitment agencies. Please do not contact our recruiting managers directly.

Vaccination

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks, and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/ where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.

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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.

Documents to download

• Job Description (PDF, 263.0KB)
• Person Specification (PDF, 92.1KB)
• Policy Statement on Recruitment of Ex-Offenders (PDF, 117.0KB)
• Applicant Information pack (PDF, 505.6KB)
• Hints and tips for your application (PDF, 128.7KB)