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Associate Director, Mental Health Pharmacist
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Associate Director, Mental Health Pharmacist
2 days ago
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool, United KingdomAssociate Director, Mental Health Pharmacist · 40 FTE - 15 hours per week · The NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service (SPS) supports the NHS to develop best practice systems of work-related to buying, making and using medicines. The service provides leadership, instructive and inform ...
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Associate Director, Mental Health Pharmacist
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Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool, United Kingdom PermanentJob summary · The NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service (SPS) supports the NHS to develop best practice systems of work-related to buying, making and using medicines. The service provides leadership, instructive and informative specialist input and operational support to the sourcing, ...
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool, United Kingdom PermanentJob summary · It's a great time to join our Medicines Management team following a recent restructure and significant investment to support an enhanced service model under a newly established senior management team which is fully committed to delivering outstanding services and d ...
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Higher Level Pharmacy Assistant
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Advanced Clinical Pharmacist
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Supervising Pharmacist Louth
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Technical Team Leader
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Senior Medicines Advice Pharmacist, Nhs Sps
20 hours ago
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Pharmacy Technician
4 days ago
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Pharmacy Technician
1 week ago
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool, United KingdomWe are looking to recruit enthusiastic and self-motivated pharmacy technicians to join the Mersey Care Medicines Management Team. The Medicines Management service has been restructured and is working under a newly established senior management team which is fully committed to del ...
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Assistant Technical Officer
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Senior Radiopharmaceutical Assistant
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Assistant Technical Officer
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Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool, United KingdomCome join our forward thinking and highly skilled pharmacy team. · Working in a busy department and alongside a friendly team of Pharmacy professionals you will be responsible for assisting Technicians and Pharmacists in the safe and effective distribution of medicines to all war ...
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Higher Level Pharmacy Assistant
20 hours ago
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool, United KingdomWe are looking for two enthusiastic, experienced higher level pharmacy assistants to join the homecare team based at Aintree Hospital. · The homecare team manages prescriptions for specialist medicines from 25 different teams from all three sites at Liverpool University Hospital. ...
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Outsourced Medicines Supply Services Lead
20 hours ago
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Liverpool, United KingdomThis is a full time role for a senior practitioner specialising in hospital outsourced medicines services to support North West NHS Trusts and Mental Health Trusts in their management and provision of these services. · The position will be involved in advising on the management o ...
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Pharmacy Assistant
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Pharmacy Assistant
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Care Home Care Coordinator
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Lead Clinician Housebound Visiting Service
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Childwall and Wavertree Primary Care Network Liverpool, United KingdomThe majority of patients identified for this service are likely to be housebound and/or frail who have unmet health and social needs. The CWN housebound visiting service will visit these patients in the community and support to enhance quality of life. The main aim of the service ...
Specialist Clinical Mental Health Pharmacist - Liverpool, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Description
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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
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