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

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Liverpool, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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A new and exciting opportunity has arisen for two enthusiastic and highly self-motivated pharmacists to join the Step Forward Service in Sefton/Kirkby and Liverpool as Band 8a Advanced Clinical Pharmacists, Community Mental Health.

The Step Forward Services provides a stepped model of psychological and clinical care to those who might previously have fallen through the gap between primary and secondary mental health services, with the intention of reducing the possibility of longer-term deterioration in people's mental health by offering more effective and timely earlier interventions.

The service is supported by a team comprising of a Senior Mental Health Lead, Primary Care Mental Health practitioners, Clinical Psychologists, Psychology Practitioners and Assistant Psychologists, qualified nurses and AHP practitioners who support adults with moderate to complex mental health difficulties whose needs fall between primary and secondary care.

Shortlisting date is planned for 20th June 2023

Interview date is planned for 27th June 2023

We are looking for a good communicator and team player who is proactive, innovative and highly self-motivated, with a passion for mental health.

If successful, you will work with the Step Forward Service, with professional Pharmacy support from the Medicines Management team.

As the lead clinical pharmacist for community mental health within the Step Forward service, you will work alongside a dynamic, passionate, forward-thinking, supportive patient-focussed team striving for excellence in the delivery and transformation of community mental health services.

You will have experience or qualification in Mental Health and either be currently practicing as a non-medical prescriber or willing to work towards NMP status.

You will utilise your medicines management skills and expertise to support the Step Forward team to develop and deliver a high-quality medicines optimisation and clinical pharmaceutical care service for service users, patients and healthcare professionals.

You will support service users and patients to receive safe, effective, high quality, evidence-based, recovery focussed pharmaceutical services.

You will use your specialist knowledge to identify and help resolve medication related problems, ensuring the best possible outcomes from medicines.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North-West, serving more than 11 million people.

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.

Our inpatient services cover a wide geographical area across a large proportion of the North-West providing specialist care including; Secure Services located in Maghull health park, Whalley, Hollins Park and Rathbone site, Non-Secure Services located in Broadoak, Clock View, Hartley Hospital, Knowsley and Peasley, Hollins Park, Windsor House, Fern ward, Heys Court, Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Hope Centre and Longmoor intermediate care reablement unit.

Leading the development and delivery of a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to the Step Forward service and reduce medicinesrelated harm and ensure patient safety
Contributing to multidisciplinary team meetings to provide specialist knowledge to colleagues and maximise patient benefit from medications,
Supporting with clinical queries around prescribing and monitoring of psychotropic and other medicines for people with a range of mental health problems
Supporting with identifying appropriate patients for structured medication review, including patients on complex medication regimes, unsafe and highrisk medication regimes.
Undertaking consultations with service users, including clinics and home visits with direct patient contact and support development of holistic care plans
Providing medication information and advice to service users and carers to enable informed decisionsmaking and to maximise adherence with prescribed treatment
Helping patients to reduce medicationassociated risks and where appropriate, support with structured deprescribing of medications
Supporting seamless transition of patients from secondary to primary care settings to ensure medication is optimised and monitored in the most appropriate care setting