The Avon & Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust (AWP) needs a bank clinical pharmacist to support inpatient wards and community mental health teams across the Salisbury and Wiltshire localities. Work centres on screening prescriptions for safe medicines use, including checks against Mental Health Act consent to treatment forms, plus enquiries, supply chain and discharge work. The role sits within multidisciplinary teams and includes remote clinical cover for other AWP services, with travel to other sites. GPhC registration is required.
What the job involves
- Clinical pharmacy service to inpatient wards and community teams across Salisbury and Wiltshire localities
- Clinically screen prescriptions for safe, evidence-based use of medicines, including checks against Consent to Treatment forms for Mental Health Act compliance
- Provide specialist expertise to multidisciplinary teams, answer medicines information enquiries and attend MDT rounds, team meetings and ward rounds
- Manage, review and improve the medicines supply chain for specialist areas such as clozapine, long-acting injections and self-medication, with the dispensary and locality teams
- Advise on therapeutic and physical health monitoring and on safe, cost-effective physical health medicines
- Support discharge planning, screen discharge medication requests and develop one-stop dispensing where appropriate
- Follow the Trust medicines reconciliation procedure when service users change care settings
- Provide clinical pharmacist cover to other units and remote cover to other AWP clinical services; undertake sessions at Calne dispensary when required
- Work with locality pharmacists and senior leadership to develop and deliver the Medicines Optimisation agenda
- Participate in education and training of staff on medicines
- Advise service users and carers about medicines
- Participate in audits and projects to review and improve the pharmacy service
Qualifications
- Degree in Pharmacy from an accredited British School of Pharmacy or recognised equivalent
- Post-graduate qualification in clinical or mental health pharmacy (diploma or MSc), or willingness to undertake one
Registration & licences
- Registered member of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
Experience
- Significant post-qualification experience in a hospital pharmacy department, with excellent clinical pharmacy skills
- Knowledge of pharmacological treatment options for mental health conditions and their adverse effects
Skills & knowledge
- Excellent written and verbal communication with pharmacy staff, service users, carers and other healthcare professionals
- Ability to work collaboratively within pharmacy and the wider MDT
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Ability to access, review and process complex clinical and mental health pharmacy information
- Ability to critically appraise information and clinical papers
- Attention to detail, accuracy and calculation skills
Other
- Good problem solving, time management and prioritisation skills
- Working knowledge of relevant medicines and pharmacy legislation
- Competent with standard IT tools such as Word and Excel
Nice to have
- Post-graduate qualification in mental health pharmacy
- Non-medical prescriber
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