At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide specialist clinical pharmacy services to community mental health teams and support patient care.
- Company: Join the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, a leader in mental health services.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, professional development, and the chance to make a real difference.
- Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities for growth and impact in the community.
- Why this job: Be part of a multidisciplinary team improving mental health outcomes and patient satisfaction.
- Qualifications: Experience in clinical pharmacy and a passion for mental health care.
The predicted salary is between 37035 - 45265 £ per year.
To provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service to allocated SLaM community mental health teams and, where required, home treatment teams.
To work as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team, providing evidence-based advice on complex medicines-related issues, including drug interactions, high-dose antipsychotic treatment, unlicensed medicines and areas where the evidence base is limited.
To support safe transfers of care by liaising with primary care, community pharmacies, acute hospitals, inpatient wards, home treatment teams and other relevant services.
To have medicines related consultations with patients and carers; involve patients in treatment decisions; improve patient and carer satisfaction with information they receive about medicines.
To improve physical health outcomes for community mental health patients, for example by participating in vaccination programmes, physical health clinics and physical health monitoring programmes.
To support the community teams to use medicines safely and effectively and reduce medicines wastage.
To implement medicines optimisation and quality improvement programmes in the teams.
To provide medicines related training to community mental health team staff and other members of the pharmacy team.
To prescribe medicines to service users within competence and agreed management plans.
To participate in the inpatient or dispensary service on a rotational basis where required by the site lead pharmacist.
To record clinical interventions, patient outcomes and relevant service data to demonstrate the impact of the pharmacy service and inform medicines safety and service improvement.
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