About the role
Salary: £46148.00 to £52809.00
Are you a GPhC registered pharmacist looking for a career opportunity in mental health services?
Responsible for the development of strong clinical relationships with the patients, carers and healthcare professionals in your in-patient and community settings.
Directly support patients, prescribers, and other healthcare professionals via attendance atmulti-disciplinary team (MDT) meetings and one-to-one patient consultations, carry out medication reviews, engage in discharge-planning with the MDT and ensure the correct application of national and local guidance with regard to therapies involving medicines.
Support and work alongside our centralised hub pharmacist where necessary (based at the Clinical Pharmacy Support Unit in Oxford).
Support the ongoing development of the community based pharmacy services.
Support the Trust and departmental clinical effectiveness initiatives.
Be a member of the on-call pharmacist out of hours team as per rota where applicable.
Be encouraged and supported to professionally develop in line with the departmental and your own personal needs as appropriate.
Be supported in continuing professional development through regular clinical and peer group supervision and education sessions within the Pharmacy department and externally where practicable.
Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties
Optimise drug therapy for individual patients by participation in MDT meetings, drug history taking and Pharmaceutical Care Planning.
Ensure objective monitoring of clinical response and side effects of medication as part of care planning
Ensure that prescribing and administration of medication adheres to best evidence and practice and to Trust policy.
Promote multi-disciplinary training regarding medication.
Provide coordinated medicine information to patients as part of the discharge-planning process.
Liaise with members of clinical team and external agencies as part of the CPA and discharge planning and to undertake needs assessment for individual patients e.g., compliance aid requirements
Document clinical pharmacy contacts, interventions, and records such as drug histories and treatment plans on the pharmacy system and trust EPR system.
Provide post-discharge care to patients, carers, and relatives as part of the support network, and to act as point of contact for CPNs, GPs and community pharmacists regarding interface issues
Provide medicines information and advice to patients, carers, hospital, and community staff.
Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties