- Inpatient orders Discharge prescriptions (TTOs) Planned work for depot or clozapine clinics Outpatient prescriptions
- Master of Pharmacy degree, or equivalent qualification
- Postgraduate qualification in Clinical Pharmacy, willingness to work towards or equivalent experience
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- Demonstrable evidence of commitment to self development and CPD
- Experience of undertaking audit within pharmaceutical services
- Understanding of how medicines optimisation contributes to high quality patient care
- Understanding and positive regard for the needs and rights of people with mental health problems or learning disabilities, and their carers
- Experience of multidisciplinary team working
- Experience of working in a hospital pharmacy
- Experience of providing supervision
- Experience of providing education regarding medicines
- Experience of working in providing a pharmacy service within a mental health or learning disabilities setting
- Experience of working within an NHS organisation
- Experience of provision of Medicines Information services
- Knowledge of the evidence base relating to the prescribing of psychotropic medicines
- Knowledge of recent initiatives within pharmacy
- Experience of line management of staff
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
- Excellent organisational skill
- Good IT skills
- Excellent communication skills: - written - verbal - listening
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Good time management
- Decision making skills
- Ability to travel between different sites
- Ability to work as a team player and to work independently
- Ability to work flexibly
- Pro-active and displays initiative
- Ability to adapt to changing environments, needs and demands
- Report writing skills
- Professional manner
- Critical appraisal skills
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Specialist Clinical Pharmacist – Dispensary - Warrington, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Description
Job summary
We are looking to recruit enthusiastic and self-motivated Pharmacists with excellent organisational and communication skills to join the Medicines Management Team at Mersey Care.
The Trust Executive team recognise the value of pharmacy services and have invested significant additional funding to enable transformation and expansion of dispensary clinical services.
Medicines management services have been restructured recently to support an enhanced model under a new senior leadership team which is fully committed to delivering outstanding pharmacy services and investing in the professional development of its workforce.
We are looking to recruit to the following posts: Dispensary Pharmacist roles based within our purpose-built pharmacy department at Maghull Health Park and our new in house Pharmacy at Hollins Park Hospital in Warrington. Working hours, base and location of work would be mutually agreed following on appointment in role.
We welcome applications from Pharmacists with experience from any sector who have interest in developing their professional career within a hospital pharmacy setting.
Our Band 7 Pharmacist posts provide an unparalleled opportunity to develop your skills and experience across a diverse range of provide a well-structured support system, including robust individual and group supervision, personal development planning and regular access to professional development opportunities.
Main duties of the job
To work alongside the dispensary manager to manage the daily workflow within the dispensary, ensuring that patients receive safe and appropriate medication in a timely manner.
To manage and co-ordinate the clinical screening of prescriptions within the dispensary, ensuring medications prescribed are safe, appropriate and cost effective. This includes delegating workload to other pharmacists. These prescriptions include but are not limited to:
To act as the pharmacist lead with internal departments and teams including pharmacy procurement, digital, clinical and quality teams.
To deal with professional queries within the dispensary and provide advice to healthcare professionals, carers and service users.
Our dispensary-focussed clinical pharmacist roles provide a great stepping stone for experienced community pharmacy dispensary-based Pharmacists considering transitioning into a hospital-based role. Recruitment and retention premia apply to these posts. Successful candidates will receive a £2,000 payment on completion of induction and an additional £2,000 on completion of the first year of addition, there is a retention premium payment of £2500/annum for the duration of the retention premium being available. Recruitment payments must be paid back in full if the employee leaves the Trust within two years of starting.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job descriptionJob responsibilities
1. To be responsible for implementing the Medicines Management strategy in the To deputise for a higher grade of pharmacist as required3. Participation in rota at specialist level which will include Medicines Information and providing professional and legal supervision to the dispensary To participate in the Trust-wide Out of Hours Medicines Advice Service and 7 day supply Completing with the support of technicians the process of medicines reconciliation following admission or transfer of service users within the trust. This involves collating information from patients and carers and liaising with professionals from other healthcare organisations to ascertain presenting complaint, past medical and medication history, working diagnosis and relevant biomedical and psychiatric test results to ensure the safe and effective use of Ensuring that each medicine has an appropriate indication and each diagnosis has appropriate Ensuring that existing therapy is safe to take with, and has not contributed to, the presenting Ensuring that new treatments are compatible with the patients Making recommendations on changes to drug therapy in line with the Reviewing recommendations in the light of new results and treatment Advising on which medications should continue and which should stop during the admission period, if appropriate.
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