We are seeking an enthusiastic, motivated, and dedicated pharmacist to help lead the development of our inpatient pharmacy services across the Trust. As a member of our senior management team, you will oversee the Lead Pharmacists for inpatient services and also support the management of our Community Mental Health Team pharmacists. This is an exciting role that allows the potholder to help shape and develop pharmacy services across KMPT. They will be required to network and drive innovation in mental health medicines optimisation within the organisation, at the interface of inpatient and community services and work collaboratively with other stakeholders.

The post holder will need to have an independent prescribing qualification and post-graduate qualification in psychiatric pharmacy, or relevant experience in mental health will be essential. There will be a requirement to join the on-call clinical pharmacist rota.

Main duties of the job

• The main duty in this role will be to take operational responsibility for the safe, secure, effective provision, management and strategic direction of all inpatient medicines management services across the Trust.
• You will have a particular role in implementing and monitoring the inpatient clinical pharmacy standards and working closely with the Chief and Deputy Chief Pharmacist to identify service gaps and areas for improvement. You will be responsible for areas of service and line management of pharmacy staff.
• You will also be involved in working with the other lead pharmacists in undertaking and developing audits and projects to evaluate and improve services alongside pharmacy and Trust priorities and objectives.

About us

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.

The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The roles and duties of this post include:

• Manage the lead clinical pharmacists for inpatient services in the East, North and West Kent locality and support the Advanced CMHT Lead Pharmacist by managing two CMHT Lead Pharmacists.
• Take operational responsibility for the safe, secure, effective provision, management and strategic direction of all inpatient medicines management services across the Trust.
• To ensure a high-quality, clinical pharmacy service is delivered to inpatients and their carers within Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT).
• Provide professional pharmaceutical leadership and expert advice on all matters relating to prescribing and medicine management services to the Chief Pharmacist, Deputy Chief Pharmacist, Medicines Management team, individual services and clinicians.
• Promote seamless and integrated care for patients with mental health conditions, supporting the transition of patients across inpatient and community services so they receive the required level of care to support them in taking their medication safely.
• Support the management of shared care, ensuring patients are being monitored and reviewed in line with best practice, evidence and guidance.
• Be responsible for policy implementation and staff development relating to medicines management across all the inpatient sites in Kent.
• Represent pharmacy at local governance meetings, including writing medicine management reports for the Drug & Therapeutic (D& T) group and the Clinical Effectiveness and Outcome Group (CEOG) meetings.
• Publish the bimonthly Medication Matters newsletter to all staff across the trust, sharing insights on medication-related alerts and errors, and updating staff on new policies and procedures.
• Lead the setup of the pharmacist on-call rota and participate in the clinical on-call pharmacist service as needed.

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

• Master's Degree in Pharmacy
• Post graduate qualification in Clinical Pharmacy
• Post graduate qualification in leadership or management
• Non- Medical Prescribing qualification
• Member of the College of Mental Health Pharmacy
• Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council, with at least 5 year's post graduate experience

Desirable

• Practice Supervisor Qualification
• Postgraduate qualification in Psychopharmacology
• Working towards being a Designated Prescribing Practitioner

Years experience

Essential

• 3 years experience of working in Mental Health services
• Knowledge and understanding of implications of Clinical Governance
• Ability to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary settings
• Record of achieving results against set targets
• Experience of service review and design
• Experience of strategic planning
• Experience of managing staff

Desirable

• Experience of budget setting and management of drugs budgets

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• Good written and verbal communication skills
• High level of analytical skills and problem solving ability, to ensure that the post holder is able to provide advice on complex issues relating to medicine management and Trust policies.
• Knowledge and experience of Primary and Secondary Care working
• Confident and assertive when dealing with other professionals
• High level of Interpersonal skills, to ensure that the post holder is able to effectively exchange highly complex and sensitive information with patients and relatives, prescribers and senior managers
• IT skills - word-processing, PowerPoint, Excel, statistical package and internet use, so that the post holder can communicate effectively with other Health care professionals and for training purposes.
• Up to date knowledge of prescribing issues in Mental Health

Desirable

• Good project management skills

Employer details

Employer name

Kent & Medway NHS & Social Care Partnership Trust

Address

St Martin's Hospital/ Littlebrook hospital/Priority House

Canterbury/ Dartford/ Maidstone /

CT1 1AZ

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