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    Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Warrington, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

    Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
    Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Warrington, United Kingdom

    3 weeks ago

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    Full timeFlexible working 37.5 hours per week
    Description

    Job overview

    To be actively involved in providing Advanced Clinical Skills, theoretical knowledge, pharmacy medicines management service, and practical skills to Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. The post holder will act as the advanced clinical pharmacist and Non-Medical Prescriber (NMP) for the Later Life and Memory Services (LLAMS) community mental health within the medicines management team. The post holder will ensure that they deliver an advanced level of clinical practice and provide medicines optimisation characterised by a high level of autonomy and complex decision- making. They will be responsible for leading, delivering and developing comprehensive clinical practitioner and pharmacy services to the Trusts LLAMS, providing specialist information and advice to all Members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) to maximise patient care. The post holder will be responsible for training and supervising other LLAMS and Medicines Management staff members within this specialist area of dementia.

    Main duties of the job

  • Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of a range of procedures relating to dementia, and practices, including differentia diagnosis.
  • To work autonomously as an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist/Practitioner to provide effective care to individuals and groups, managing a caseload of patients within LLAMS delivering individualised direct patient care.
  • Demonstrate a critical understanding of their broader level of responsibility and autonomy and limits of their own competence and professional scope of practice.
  • To act as the Trust's point of contact for pharmaceutical issues within community mental health services of the LLAMS Team.
  • To be responsible for leading, and delivering an advanced level of clinical expertise and pharmaceutical care, within the LLAMS, to undertake advanced health assessment, from patients initial presentation, clinical assessment, requesting and interpreting of necessary diagnostic clinical investigations, interpretation of information leading to diagnosis of patients with dementia, and formulating treatment and management plans on behalf of the Trust, all of which require interpretation, judgement, and comparisons involving highly complex facts or situations, in analysis.

    • Working for our organisation

    Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and is 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. We call this continuous improvement in quality and cost, 'striving for perfect care'.

    We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from BAME, disabled and LGBT people that are under-represented in our workforce. We welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us.

    Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of a range of procedures relating to dementia, and practices, including differentia diagnosis.
  • To work autonomously as an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist/Practitioner to provide effective care to individuals and groups, managing a caseload of patients within LLAMS delivering individualised direct patient care.
  • Demonstrate a critical understanding of their broader level of responsibility and autonomy and limits of their own competence and professional scope of practice.
  • To act as the Trust's point of contact for pharmaceutical issues within community mental health services of the LLAMS Team.
  • To be responsible for leading, and delivering an advanced level of clinical expertise and pharmaceutical care, within the LLAMS, to undertake advanced health assessment, from patients initial presentation, clinical assessment, requesting and interpreting of necessary diagnostic clinical investigations, interpretation of information leading to diagnosis of patients with dementia, and formulating treatment and management plans on behalf of the Trust, all of which require interpretation, judgement, and comparisons involving highly complex facts or situations, in analysis.
  • To be responsible for the development and implementation of post diagnostic monitoring and biological, psychosocial and social care of patients, their family and carers within LLAMS.
  • To ensure that effective clinical and Medicines Management practices are developed and carried out consistently within LLAMS community mental health services within the Trust, to promote advanced clinical practice, medicines safety and reduce risk of harm from both mental health and physical health medications. Team/Locality Pharmacist Manager for Inpatient Mental Health Band 8b Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - NMP and Later Life and Memory Team Community Mental Health Band 8b Specialist band 8a, 7 and rotational band 6 pharmacists Consultant Psychiatrist LLAMS Head Of Clinical Pharmacy Services Mental Health Band 8C 06/09/2023
  • To develop evidence-based treatment protocols for use within the LLAMS community mental health and the Trusts older adult inpatient wards. To facilitate the implementation of local pathways and national guidelines relating to dementia for the Trust, and External stakeholders such as Universities.
  • To Lead if necessary and contribute to the development of new policies and procedures relating to dementia and the LLAMS, the modification of existing policies and procedures, and their implementation.
  • To undertake clinics with direct patient contact face to face e.g., house visit, clinic, Digital e.g., Teams, around anywhere and Verbal e.g., telephone, including clinical assessment, requesting and interpreting clinical information, assimilating diagnosis, delivery of diagnosis, leading on treatment plans, including mental health and physical medication reviews, providing an expert response to fitness to drive requests and post diagnostic follow up considering social, and psychological follow ups in providing high level of patient and Carer/Family care.
  • The post holder can seek clinical supervision or advice from the Consultant Psychiatrist when needed for any complex or high-risk cases.
  • To actively initiate and take part in practice research relating to specialist area of practice, which may lead to publication or to the presentation of papers or posters at conferences and workshops

    • Person specification

    Qualifications

    Essential criteria

  • Master of Pharmacy degree
  • Postgraduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy, or equivalent experience
  • Experienced Independent prescriber qualification
  • Specialist Practitioner in the Assessment and Diagnosis of Dementia, or willingness to work towards
  • Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
  • Postgraduate qualification in Psychiatric Therapeutics/Clinical Pharmacy

    • Desirable criteria

  • Membership of the College of Mental Health Pharmacy (CMHP)
  • Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
  • Leadership or management qualification/training

    • Knowledge/Experience

    Essential criteria

  • Experience of working within an NHS organisation and knowledge of the national and local NHS healthcare agenda and its implications
  • Substantial autonomous experience working as an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist/Practitioner in a multi professional practice setting as part of a multidisciplinary team
  • Experience in developing and implementing governance safety frameworks to support service and quality delivery, improvement and sustainability including learning from incidents or quality assurance audits/ patient and carer feedback and National policy
  • Experience of working within Hospital pharmaceutical services
  • Experience of providing supervision
  • Experience of providing education regarding medicines
  • Evidence of teaching in a variety of environments
  • Evidence of presentations at conferences
  • Evidence of dissemination of knowledge in wider healthcare organisations
  • Knowledge of the evidence base relating to the prescribing of medication within dementia
  • Knowledge of the evidence base relating to the prescribing of medication within dementia
  • Clear understanding of relevant legislation and guidance
  • Awareness of local area prescribing committee processes
  • Ability to influence, motivate and lead teams of staff in an open and transparent management style
  • Understanding and positive regard for the needs and rights of people with mental health problems or learning disabilities, and their carers
  • Demonstrable evidence of commitment to self development and CPD relevant to the role of Later Life services and dementia
  • Highly developed communication, influencing and negotiating skills (verbal, nonverbal and written]
  • Ability to prioritise and meet deadlines
  • Able to use initiative and make decisions supported by agreed standard
  • Can demonstrate a working knowledge of Health & Safety legislation, the concept of Clinical Governance, Quality Improvement and evidence-based practice associate with the portfolio

    • Desirable criteria

  • Experience of working within inpatient or community mental health services
  • Experience of provision of medicines information services
  • Experience of line management of staff
  • Knowledge of the evidence base relating to the prescribing of psychotropic medicines
  • Knowledge of recent and upcoming initiatives within pharmaceutical and dementia services

    • Values

    Essential criteria

  • 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

    • Skills

    Essential criteria

  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Good IT skills
  • Excellent communication skills: – written – verbal – listening
  • Ability to work both independently and as a team player
  • Ability to work flexibly
  • Ability to work under pressure
  • Ability to prioritise workload and manage time effectively to meet specified deadlines
  • Self-motivated and able to use initiative
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Report-writing skills
  • Ability to analyse data
  • Negotiating and influencing skills
  • Ability to adapt to changing environments, needs and demands
  • Recognition of own limitations and ability to ask for support when necessary
  • Professional manner
  • Ability to travel between different sites
  • Reliable, punctual, professional attitude and presentation including personal dress
  • Ability to work well under pressure in a Complex care environment
  • Demonstrable structured approach to Continuing professional development Ability to travel to Domiciliary Visits if necessary

    • Desirable criteria

  • Project management skills

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