Job summary
Employer heading
Lead Pharmacist - Learning Disabilities
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Welcome from our Chief Executive
Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.
So what can we offer you in return?
We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.
You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.
As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.
If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.
Job overview
Lead Pharmacist CAMHS
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust are seeking to appoint an exceptional clinical pharmacist and independent prescriber to support our Learning Disabilities Services (LD) across Sussex. The role has been pivotal in improving medicines use within the service. The role supports clinicians and operational leads across LD services in all aspects of medicines use, including improving medicines use, education and training, clinical queries and support, medicines spend and running patient facing clinics and prescribing roles. The role also leads on all aspects of LD related prescribing, including shared care and guidance at Trust and ICS levels. The role has also being pivotal in supporting STOMP / STAMP reviews within the Trust and supporting system partners. The role will support the LD Senior Leadership Team and Directorate.
The role is Trustwide and there is flexibility for base across Sussex and opportunities for flexible and part home-working. The role will be required to support LD services across the Trust.
There is scope for this role to develop further as an Advanced Core Pharmacist and personal development towards Consultant Level Practice.
Main duties of the job
The role will lead on all aspects of medicines optimisation within LD across Trust services, working in collaboration with the Lead Pharmacist CAMHS The role will support clinical and operational colleagues on all aspects of medicines use within LD, including clinics and prescribing role within the service (STOMP / STAMP). The post holder will be active member of LD leadership groups and directorate. The role will also lead on all aspects of medicines guidance and policies relating to LD within the Trust and in collaboration with ICS Medicines Optimisation groups.
To protect the health and safety of our staff/workers, patients, and those attending our sites, we encourage our workforce to get fully vaccinated against COVID
Working for our organisation
Sussex Partnership is one of the largest mental health trust in the UK. The physical health of our mental health patients is important to us and with the live expectancy of patients with serious mental health dying 15 to 20 years earlier, the trust is committed to reducing this risk and pharmacy play a key role in this.
About us
As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do.
You can expect:
- Access to full psychological support, the wellbeing team
- Excellent supervision programmes.
- Flexible working opportunities
- Access to a host of discount schemes (including gyms, shopping, restaurants and cars)
- A position within a trust rated as Outstanding for caring and Good overall by the CQC
- Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)
- Excellent NHS Pension Scheme
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached documents for further information. Alternatively if you have any queries regarding the role please contact us.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree in Pharmacy at a British School of Pharmacy, or recognised equivalent
- Clinical Pharmacy post graduate qualification (e.g. certificate or diploma)
- Registered Member of General Pharmaceutical Council.
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential criteria
- To have demonstrable evidence of having met the full gateway KSF for 7 Specialist Pharmacist
- Experience of working with different healthcare professions and managers across the wider healthcare economy
- Can demonstrate an understanding of the key stakeholders the post is likely to be supporting and how they will be expected to support them.
- Demonstrable expertise in highly relevant field of pharmacy specialism
- Significant experience of working within a hospital pharmacy department post qualification, including experience in mental health service provision
- Experience of working with working age mental health services
- Excellent clinical pharmacy skills with particular emphasis on medicines used in mental health
- Experience in providing both written and verbal information on drug usage
- Experience in carrying out Medicines Information queries, providing both verbal and written specialist advice
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jonathon Palmer
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 304 2616
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