We are currently looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Band 8a Advanced Clinical Pharmacist to join our pharmacy team, based at the Cavell Centre in Peterborough.Our pharmacists play an integral role as members of the multi-disciplinary team by ensuring medicines are prescribed and used in a way that is evidence based, safe and cost effective to the benefit of our patients. This post will suit a pharmacist wishing to join a vibrant working environment with a desire to further improve on their current clinical knowledge and skills. The successful candidate will be expected to influence prescribing and to continue to integrate pharmacy into the wider multidisciplinary team.The ideal candidate will have a commitment to teamwork, a sense ofaccountability, plus an ability to work under pressure.

We will provide the necessary support to ensure your development within your role.

We are keen to support and develop our staff and encourage promotionopportunities within the Trust.

Main duties of the job

The job will involve working closely with our small team of experiencedpharmacists, technicians and support workers supplying medication and apharmacy service to inpatient mental health, intermediate care, palliative care and rehabilitation wards, as well as community based mental health teams and integrated care teams, plus being part of the clozapine clinic.

As part of a small team you will be involved in all aspects of the pharmacy service. The team supports patients across Peterborough and north Cambridgeshire and therefore you will be expected to travel off site on a regular basis to provide our comprehensive pharmacy service to these locations.

The ideal candidate will undertake clinical pharmacy research and audit to influence practice within the Trust and inform the development of protocols and guidelines associated with the use of medicines in mental health, learning disability and community healthcare services.

About us

Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high calibre candidates that share our vision & values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including disabled people & members of our ethnic minorities & LGBTQ+ communities.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.

• Participation in multidisciplinary team meetings to identify medication problems and provide advice.
• To offer prescribing advice to medical staff and non-medical prescribers especially when complex problems arise with medication combinations and doses.
• Conducting medication education sessions for service users and carers, either on a one-to-one or group basis.
• Reviewing medication charts on wards and in the pharmacy to ensure their accuracy and appropriateness.
• To undertake dispensing accuracy checking within the pharmacy when necessary Interpreting medicines information to provide advice for individual service user circumstances.
• Advising on medicines risk management issues such as the reduction of medication incidents and ensuring compliance with medicines legislation.
• Giving medicines management advice to medical, nursing, and other staff, and medicines information to all members of staff.
• Liaising with GPs and community pharmacists, and involvement in discharge planning to ensure community medication needs of service users are fulfilled.
• To contribute to aspects of the specialist medicine provision system operated by CPFT for clozapine.
• Supporting the clinical pharmacy service clinical input to community health services including hospital settings where necessary.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential

• Registration with GPhC.
• Postgraduate certificate and/or diploma in Psychiatric Pharmacy
• Other post-graduate clinical pharmacy qualification.

Desirable

• Member of, or working towards, membership of the College of Mental Health Pharmacy

Experience

Essential

• Extensive years postgraduate employment as a pharmacist
• Experience in hospital pharmacy, mental health, clinical pharmacy role, research, clinical trials and/or audit, medicines protocol/guideline development and implementation, supervisory role

Desirable

• Management of staff

Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with other staff and service users.
• Good time management.
• Decision making skills.
• Networking.
• Able to work independently and prioritise work appropriately.

Desirable

• Effective project management
• Networking

Knowledge & Understanding

Essential

• Evidence of expert knowledge relating to clinical pharmacy issues in psychiatry
• Specialist knowledge of the evidence base relating to the prescribing of psychotropic medication
• Up to date knowledge of NHS and other relevant policies

Employer details

Employer name

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Cavell Centre

Bretton Gate

Peterborough

PE3 9GZ

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