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    Specialist Clinical Mental Health Pharmacist - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

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    Fancy joining a dynamic, forward-thinking, and patient-focussed team that is continuously striving to deliver excellent clinical pharmacy services?


    We have fantastic opportunities across our mental health in-patient and secure and learning disability services, for experienced, enthusiastic, adaptable, highly self-motivated pharmacists with a passion for mental health to join our friendly and supportive teams.

    Successful candidates will be responsible for leading, delivering and developing our mental health clinical pharmacy services. You will support multi-disciplinary teams to deliver high quality, safe and cost-effective pharmaceutical care for patients.

    You will not routinely work weekends or cover the on-call advisory service unless minimum thresholds are breached.


    To participate in the delivery of highly specialist clinical pharmacy services, ensuring that services meet professional standards and comply with relevant legislation.

    To carry out medicines reconciliation, clinically checks and medication reviews to ensure the safe and effective use of medicines.

    To undertake pharmaceutical care planning, utilising local trust guidance and national protocols.


    To ensure effective medication practices are developed and carried out consistently across mental health services, promoting medicines safety and reducing harm from medications.

    To participate in training, supervision, mentoring and line management of colleagues


    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 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.


    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.

    To participate in the delivery of highly specialist clinical pharmaceutical and medicalsupply services, ensuring that services meet the standards set by the GeneralPharmaceutical Council and relevant legislation.

    To act as the advanced clinical pharmacist for inpatient mental health, specificallyclozapine services, within the medicines management team.
    To act as the trusts point of contact for pharmaceutical issues within inpatient mentalhealth services.

    To be responsible for leading, delivering and developing comprehensive clinical pharmacyand supply services to the trusts inpatient mental health services.

    To be responsible for the development and implementation of inpatient clozapineinitiation services, including the implementation of systems and processes for the ongoing monitoring of patients prescribed clozapine in the inpatient setting, ensuringstreamlined processes are in place for escalation.

    To ensure that effective medicines management practices are developed and carried outconsistently within all inpatient mental health services within the trust, to promotemedicines safety and reduce risk of harm from medications.

    To facilitate the implementation of local and national guidelines relating to inpatientmental health and clozapine services.

    To contribute to the development of new policies and procedures relating to inpatientmental health and clozapine services, the modification of existing policies and procedures,and their implementation.

    To undertake clinics with direct patient contact, including medication reviews and homevisits.

    Master of Pharmacy degree, or equivalent qualification
    Postgraduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy, or equivalent experience
    Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
    Postgraduate qualification in Psychiatric Therapeutics/Clinical Pharmacy, or willingness to work towards

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

    Experience of working within pharmaceutical services
    Experience of undertaking audit within pharmaceutical services
    Understanding of the benefits and risks of clozapine therapy and its place in patient care
    Understanding of how medicines optimisation contributes to high quality patient care
    Awareness of local area prescribing committee processes
    Understanding and positive regard for the needs and rights of people with mental health problems or learning disabilities, and their carers
    Experience of working in hospital pharmacy
    Experience of working within inpatient mental health services
    Knowledge of recent and upcoming initiatives within pharmaceutical services
    Experience of working within hospital pharmacy

    Report-writing skills
    Ability to analyse data
    Ability to travel between different sites

    Project management skills

    Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
    Broadoak Unit / Knowsley Resource & Recovery Centre

    Broadoak Unit Broadgreen Hospital Site / Whiston Hospital, Dragon Lane, Prescot


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