Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 363-LutonJobFairPharmacist
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Pharmacy Department
- Town
- Luton
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 20/05/2024
Employer heading
Specialist Mental Health Pharmacist
Band 7
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job overview
Are you an enthusiastic, motivated and committed pharmacist and have a passion for developing your skills and experience within a mental health setting?
If so, we would like you to join our Mental Health pharmacy team as a Specialist Mental Health Pharmacist. You will provide Pharmacy and Medicines management services to all Inpatient Mental health and Specialist services.
Visit our Recruitment Fair at Charter House in Luton:
Date : 20/05/2024
Time : 09:00am – 1:00pm* (Registration is required to be interviewed on the day)
*Registration for interviews is 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM. Failure to register during this time will make you unable to partake in same day interview held from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM.
Address : Charter House, Alma St, Luton, LU1 2PJ
Role : Specialist Mental Health Pharmacist
As a Trust, we value our staff and offer a wide range of benefits;
- NHS Discounts (show your ID at various Food, Drink, Health & Beaut & Shopping outlets)
- Cycle to Work Schemes
- Car Lease Schemes
- 2 days Additional Leave (if no sickness absence)
- Learning and Development opportunities – CP
It is imperative that the successful candidate is able to show compassion and respect for people with mental health illness and be driven to improve their care through the safe and effective use of medicines.
*The successful post holder will be given the opportunity to further develop their competence through Post Graduate Certificate/Diplomas and Non medical Prescribing where appropriate*
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected to work with the Clinical Lead/Lead Pharmacist to develop clinical pharmacy services within the Luton and Bedfordshire directorates.
They will be responsible for implementing and monitoring the Trust’s clinical pharmacy standards as well as ensuring the clinical service is of high quality and patient-focused.
They will identify gaps and problem areas in the service and will use Quality Improvement methodology to make positive changes.
The postholder will be required to work closely with the clinical lead ensuring that stock control of medicines on the wards is accurate and that cost effective measures are taken to improve medicine use across the inpatient wards.
The post holder will also be expected to manage clozapine supply for inpatient and service users in the community.
Working for our organisation
East London Foundation Trust (ELFT), Our dynamic and creative Trust pharmacy team provides pharmacy services to a wide range of community and inpatient service users in Newham, Luton & Bedfordshire, City & Hackney and Tower Hamlets. These include children and young people to adults of working age, older adults, perinatal, learning disabilities, community health services and forensic patients. We provide a broad range of clinical pharmacy services to our inpatient wards and are supported by trained medicines management technicians.
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In this post, you will join a small team of Pharmacists and Medicines Management Technicians, working dynamically with the wider pharmacy team to provide a medicine service to a wide range of community and inpatient service users in Luton and Bedfordshire. There will be an expectation to work closely with the lead pharmacist in identifying gaps in service delivery alongside developing medicine optimisation and deprescribing iniatives.
Please for further information kindly refer to the job description and person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Education/ Qualification/ Training
Essential criteria
- • Vocational Master’s Degree in Pharmacy (or equivalent)
- • + Pre-registration training
- • + Post registration training relevant to hospital pharmacy
- • Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council and/or Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- • Experience in clinical pharmacy in a mental health setting
Desirable criteria
- • Experience in clinical pharmacy of working with older people
- • Psychiatry qualification (or willing to work towards this)
- • Working towards higher Degree/Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate medicine related information to mental health patients, carers and clinical staff
- • Previous evaluated experience of mentorship and training skills
- • To have undertaken clinical audit
- • Previous experience in providing clinical mental health services.
Desirable criteria
- • Training and education
- • Staff management experience
- • Monitoring and advising on drug expenditure
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- • Clinical and critical appraisal skills
- • The ability to identify and prioritise clinical work load
- • Communicates with medical, nursing and pharmacy staff in clear precise and appropriate manner.
- • To have an awareness of national and local priorities
- • The ability to identify and manage risks
- • Ability to evaluate own work
- • Enhances the quality of patient care
- • Demonstrates awareness of the clinical governance agenda
- • Teaching and presentation skills
- • Demonstrates ability to meets set targets
- • Demonstrate ability to organise self in order to ensure efficient use of time.
- • Meets expected levels of practice as defined by others
- • Self-motivated
- • The ability and willingness to deputise for senior staff while recognising limitations of experience and ability
- • Takes responsibilities for own actions
Desirable criteria
- • Able to influence junior medical staff
- • Understanding of local trust priorities
- • Evidence of writing procedures, guidelines or protocols.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rajesh Jethwa / Natasha Patel
- Job title
- Directorate Lead Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07773044406
- Additional information
Natasha Patel, Directorate Lead Pharmacist, [email protected], 07940466861
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