Senior Clinical Pharmacist Low Secure ServicesNHS

Job summary

We have an excellent opportunity for a pharmacist to join our Rehabilitation and High Support service. You will work within the Low Secure units primarily at Birch Hill Hospital but also at the Tameside site, acting as a key contributor within the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) to support safe, effective and evidence based treatment to patients with serious and enduring mental illness. You will be embedded within the MDT as well as part of a friendly pharmacy team within the Trust. There is no dispensary or out of hours commitment providing the perfect opportunity for a clinical role within a friendly and forward thinking team.

Main duties of the job

To provide, manage, organise and develop the clinical pharmacy service to the Low Secure services within the Rehabilitation and High Support care hub in Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust To ensure that the clinical pharmacy service provided meets with the national standardsfor the delivery of the pharmaceutical services to patients within Low Secure ServicesTo ensure that all developments required for the pharmacy service are implemented and learning spread trust wideTo ensure that pharmacy services work within agreed guidelines to ensure effectivemedicines management.To ensure the delivery of effective medicines management in conjunction with medicaland nursing staff.To ensure the implementation of all Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust policies andprocedures that impact on medicines management and pharmaceutical care.To work in close liaison with other pharmacists and technical staff providing a pharmacy service to Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust under Service Level Agreement (SLA),to ensure the delivery and supply of medication to the mental health wards, departments and units.To work with the Chief Pharmacist to ensure that there is liaison with the Service Directors and/ or medical manager about medicines management issues, as necessary.To provide cover for other pharmacists providing a service to and employed by Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, as requested.

Job description

You will deliver the established clinical pharmacy service to the Low secure units; the main responsibilities are covered in the job description

About us

You will work within a multi-disciplinary team at Prospect Place and Tatton Ward, the low secure units within Pennine Care, providing expert mental health medicines advice including at ward and board rounds. Monitoring the safety, effectiveness of medicines as well as the physical health of these long stay patients is the mainstay of the role. Supported by a friendly MDT, medical and pharmacy leadership, as well as a friendly team of pharmacists and technicians, you will receive clinical and and management supervision and have opportunities to develop yourself and the role through education, training, team meetings and opportunities such as Quality Improvement and audit. You will be supported to undertake further qualifications as needed . The role is entirely clinical with no dispensary, out of hours or on call commitment