Specialist Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job summary

Are you a clinical pharmacist with a passion for delivering outstanding care that brings the 6 Cs (care, compassion, commitment, courage, communication and competence) to life? If so, we want to hear from you. We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated pharmacist with a clinical and patient-facing focus to join our established and friendly Pharmacy team.

You will be responsible for delivering a clinical service on our inpatient wards and within our community teams. An excellent leadership and clinical development package will be on offer for our successful candidates as we aim to invest in our staff to deliver high standards of care to our patients.

This is a clinical role and a great opportunity for pharmacists from a variety of backgrounds to gain experience in mental health pharmacy.

Depending on experience, this post will either be a developmental post (band 6 role which will develop into a B7 as the postholder will be supported through a PG certificate and diploma competency framework) or direct into a band 7 role.

Main duties of the job

Take local responsibility for pharmacist services to allocated clinical areas in line with rotas. Review any relevant stock lists regularly, taking into consideration usage, service resilience, overall costs and prescribing trends.

Provide pharmacist cover to other clinical areas as required.

Review prescriptions and information relating to individual patients and provide relevant advice about medicines, possible side-effects, dosages, administration, supply, storage and destruction.

Ensure Mental Health Act paperwork i.e. T2's, T3'S and CTO's is accurate and follow up where there are anomalies in line with departmental procedures

Contribute to multi-disciplinary working within the allocated clinical area including participation in meetings, influencing the formulation and review of treatment plans and ensuring safe and effective pharmaceutical treatment appropriate for the individuals or groups. Promote best practice in medicines management, medicines optimisation and evidence-based prescribing.

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life.Visitbeinlincolnshire.comto find out more.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.

When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:

Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy

Competitive annual leave allowance

Car leasing scheme

NHS pension scheme

Free eye tests

Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme

Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

Job description
Job responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.

When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:

Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy

Competitive annual leave allowance

Car leasing scheme

NHS pension scheme

Free eye tests

Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme

Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Bands 6 and 7 - BSc, BPharm or MSc in Pharmacy
• Bands 6 and 7 - Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
• Bands 6 and 7 - Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
• Band 7 - Post-graduate diploma in mental health pharmacy or equivalent experience

Desirable

• Post graduate qualification in clinical pharmacy
• Non-medical prescribing qualification

Experience

Essential

• Bands 6 and 7 - Recent post-registration experience of working as a pharmacist
• Bands 6 and 7 - Experience of working under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Band 7 - Experience of working as a pharmacist in a hospital and/or mental health setting

Skills

Essential

• Bands 6 and 7 - Able to accurately interpret, record and recall information
• Bands 6 and 7 - Demonstrate excellent listening, motivational, negotiation and diplomacy skills
• Bands 6 and 7 - Able to work to a high level of accuracy in professional assessment of prescriptions and interpretation of information
• Bands 6 and 7 - Demonstrates ability to work within a team, to support individuals and the pharmacy service
• Bands 6 and 7 - Able to adapt to change in working practice and able to respond to changing situations
• Band 7 - Demonstrates the application of critical evaluation skills to review academic literature in the context of specialist practice
• Band 7 - Demonstrates a high level of professional autonomy and effective judgement, prioritisation and decision making
• Band 7 - Able to discuss options and negotiate alternatives with other healthcare professionals to provide best available pharmacotherapy to individual patients
• Band 7 - Show good communication skills, with the ability to provide relevant pharmaceutical information to all levels of healthcare staff, patients and carers

Desirable

• Show competence in using the following computer programs: o MS Word o MS Excel o MS Powerpoint o MS Outlook
• Show competence in using web-based resources
• Competence in using electronic patient records/systems

Person Specification
Qualifications

Essential

• Bands 6 and 7 - BSc, BPharm or MSc in Pharmacy
• Bands 6 and 7 - Registered as a pharmacist with the GPhC
• Bands 6 and 7 - Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
• Band 7 - Post-graduate diploma in mental health pharmacy or equivalent experience

Desirable

• Post graduate qualification in clinical pharmacy
• Non-medical prescribing qualification

Experience

Essential

• Bands 6 and 7 - Recent post-registration experience of working as a pharmacist
• Bands 6 and 7 - Experience of working under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Band 7 - Experience of working as a pharmacist in a hospital and/or mental health setting

Skills

Essential

• Bands 6 and 7 - Able to accurately interpret, record and recall information
• Bands 6 and 7 - Demonstrate excellent listening, motivational, negotiation and diplomacy skills
• Bands 6 and 7 - Able to work to a high level of accuracy in professional assessment of prescriptions and interpretation of information
• Bands 6 and 7 - Demonstrates ability to work within a team, to support individuals and the pharmacy service
• Bands 6 and 7 - Able to adapt to change in working practice and able to respond to changing situations
• Band 7 - Demonstrates the application of critical evaluation skills to review academic literature in the context of specialist practice
• Band 7 - Demonstrates a high level of professional autonomy and effective judgement, prioritisation and decision making
• Band 7 - Able to discuss options and negotiate alternatives with other healthcare professionals to provide best available pharmacotherapy to individual patients
• Band 7 - Show good communication skills, with the ability to provide relevant pharmaceutical information to all levels of healthcare staff, patients and carers

Desirable

• Show competence in using the following computer programs: o MS Word o MS Excel o MS Powerpoint o MS Outlook
• Show competence in using web-based resources
• Competence in using electronic patient records/systems

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address

To be confirmed. Lincoln, Sleaford and Boston

Lincoln

LN1 1FS

United Kingdom

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