Advanced Specialist Pharmacist (Home Treatment Team (HTT) Project)

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire. We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers. Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received. We look forward to receiving your application!

We are looking for an enthusiastic and confident clinical pharmacist with experience of working in mental health to support the leadership and delivery of a three-month project to improve medicines management and optimisation in our four Home Treatment Teams based in Guildford, Chertsey, Frimley and Redhill. Successful completion of this project will inform a business case for regular Pharmacy Service provision. We are looking for a self-motivated individual who will thrive on a challenge, with an understanding of the medicine’s optimisation issues within mental health. A wide range of experience and skills are required including excellent clinical, organisational, and communication skills, sound IT skills and the ability to work unsupervised and as part of a team. You will have a proven track record of successful implementation of medicines optimisation projects and have the vision to develop innovative solutions. Previous experience of working with community mental health services or home treatment teams would be advantageous.

This role will involve:

• Visit and assess our teams to establish staff competence and knowledge relating to medicines management, and supporting the teams within the busy environment they work in.
• Working closely with our HTT managers, Clinical Nurse Consultant, Clinicians and Pharmacy colleagues.
• Setting out and implementing a comprehensive plan incorporating training needs analysis, patient and staff evaluation and a review of any relevant HTT medicines charts and paperwork where appropriate and present a report of the main findings and recommendations to the relevant service leads.
• Providing limited support to the teams around medicines optimisation and enabling staff to better support individuals using the service in the context of prioritizing completion of this project.

Experience:

• Post-registration experience of mental health and/or acute hospital pharmacy.
• Multidisciplinary team working.
• Training of other staff.
• Experience of Leading on clinical audit.
• Consulting with people using our services and provision of advice and information to those individuals and their carers.
• Experience of project work with quality improvement methodology.

Qualifications and Professional Registration:

• Degree in Pharmacy (MPharm or equivalent qualification) + one-year pre-registration/foundation training.
• Postgraduate Certificate in General Pharmacy or Psychiatric Pharmacy (or equivalent).
• Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical or Psychiatric Pharmacy.
• Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
• Member of College of Mental Health Pharmacy.

We are seeking to enrich the diversity of our Trust to better reflect demographic needs of the populations we serve and to enhance the skills of our workforce. We actively encourage applicants with underrepresented personal characteristics to apply for this role if you match the job description. Please note that you are not restricted from applying for this role if you do not identify with these characteristics and all applicants will be considered fairly against the job description.

As a flexible working and friendly organisation, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or any other flexible working patterns.

Women in our Trust are under-represented in some senior grades. We are therefore encouraging women to apply for posts at 8A and above.

Sponsorship: Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

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.