Job Summary
22.5 hours per week

This is an exciting opportunity to join South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust as a Clinical Pharmacist supporting mental health services across Kirklees. If you're looking for a role with real influence, professional freedom and the chance to shape how pharmacy supports mental health care, this post offers exactly that.

Your clinical work will include delivering specialist pharmacy services to inpatients at Enfield Down, Lyndhurst and the Priestley Unit, as well as supporting Kirklees community mental health teams, including intensive home based treatment teams and well-being and treatment teams.

If you are a strong team player and would like to be able to make a positive difference to the quality of life of service users in Calderdale and Kirklees, this is the opportunity for you.

As part of the wider South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust pharmacy service, you will have access to support, training, and supervision from experienced mental health pharmacy professionals. You will also play a key role in trustwide medicines optimisation initiatives and contribute to delivering our new Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy Strategy.

You will be working across two sites: Priestley Unit, Dewsbury and District Hospital, Halifax Road, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, WF13 4HS and Folly Hall Mills, St Thomas Road, Huddersfield, HD1 3LT.

Main duties of the job
The role of the post holder will include provision of direct patient care, carrying out patient consultations and medication counselling, complex medication reviews, rationalising and optimising medicines for mental health conditions as well as concurrent medicines for those with long term physical health conditions, prescribing where appropriate and qualified.

The post holder will also support the departmental and trust wide governance agenda, providing clinical input into audit and service development projects. They will support the day-to-day operation of the service, providing training and staff supervision as necessary.

There will be opportunities for development, and support for attendance at training courses as identified in personal development planning.

The post holder will be required to participate in the Saturday morning and out-of-hours on-call rota, which is currently approximately one week every 3 months.

At the time of advertising, this role does meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to have their up-to-date flu vaccination to protect staff and patients.

About us
We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means we're accountable to our members, who can have a say in how we're run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

Job responsibilities
JOB SUMMARY
JOB PURPOSE

• To participate in the provision of a safe and effective specialist clinical pharmacy service to designated wards within SWYPFT.
• To assist Principal Pharmacist / Senior Clinical Pharmacist in the overall provision of pharmacy services to units/teams within SWYPFT.
• To deputise for Principal Pharmacist / Senior Clinical Pharmacist as appropriate.

ROLE OF YOUR DEPARTMENT

• Maintain and develop efficient and cost effective systems for procurement, compounding, preparation and distribution of medicinal products, which reflect the needs of individual patients/patient groups as determined by the Trust.
• To ensure compliance with the current law relating to medicines and medicinal products.
• To consider and adopt as appropriate Department of Health advice and guidance relating to the pharmaceutical services provided.
• To provide professional advice to relevant health care professionals and patients regarding the safe, cost-effective use of medicines and medical products.
• To identify and ensure the operation of quality control mechanisms that meet formal controls required by the medicines agencies.
• Identify and address clinical risk issues by applying principles of clinical governance, Medicines Management and controls assurance.

RESPONSIBILITIES (Budgetary/Supervisory)

• Supervisory to liaise with the Principal Pharmacist / Senior Clinical Pharmacist in co-ordinating the activities of: Clinical supervision: Band 6 (Pharmacists) Band 5 (Technicians) Co-ordinate activities of: Ward Based Technician(s) Assistant(s)

This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The postholder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as directed.

The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the postholder when necessary and in line with the service developments.

KEY RESULT AREAS

• To provide a specialist clinical service to wards and departments of SWYPFT in accordance with Trust and department policies. This will include:
  • Taking drug histories on admission.
  • Reviewing medication to ensure safe and effective use.
  • The formulation of individual care plans.
  • Reviewing and updating care plans depending on response, results of investigations and adverse effects.
  • Therapeutic drug monitoring for specific drugs.
  • Educate patients about their drug therapy.
  • Develop evidence based treatment protocols for use either within the directorate or Trustwide where appropriate and work with other pharmacy colleagues to comment on and support implementation of policies and procedures.
  • Facilitation of compliance aids and self-medication schemes where appropriate in order to increase patient safety, improve concordance and increase quality of life in this unique patient group.
• To undertake therapeutic drug monitoring for relevant medications in order to optimise efficacy and tolerability (examples include clozapine, lithium, anticonvulsants etc)
• To undertake clinical audit and practice research within the Pharmacy Department where appropriate.
• To record clinical interventions and complete query record forms in line with departmental policy. To collate all Trust pharmacist clinical interventions and report on trends and outcomes where requested as appropriate by the Principal Pharmacist / Senior Clinical Pharmacist.
• Promote evidence based cost-effective prescribing.
• To provide professional and legal clinical supervision in the dispensary and to participate in the checking and dispensing of prescriptions (including compliance aids) when required as directed by the Technical Services Manager.
• To develop and maintain links with other professionals, such as dieticians, nursing and medical colleagues regarding service developments and improvements. To recommend service changes and implement them where appropriate. This may include changing paperwork, changing storage or delivery arrangements etc.
• To support nursing staff and Medicines Management pharmacy technician by providing clinical pharmacy advice to the patients self-administration scheme and to undertake ongoing evaluations of individual outcomes of patient self-administration.
• To participate in the appropriate reporting process: to report, record and monitor medicines related incidents or complaints and to explore ways of minimising risk of future re-occurrence or risk to staff.
• To undertake the dispensing of clinical trials in accordance with the dispensing protocol, ICH GCP guidelines and European Directives.
• To provide clinical training for Pharmacy Undergraduates, Pre-registration Pharmacists, Postgraduate Pharmacists and Technicians.
• To participate in the training of medical and nursing staff as required.
• To participate in the out of hours rotas.
• To comply with the legal and other requirements related to the purchase, supply, use, safe custody and destruction of drugs within Pharmacy and in all other areas in the Trust.
• To comply with the Health and Safety at Work Act, Data Protection Act and COSHH legislations.
• To participate in Continuing Professional Development as per department policy and national guidelines from the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• To participate in individual performance review.
• To assist in the development of a Medicines Management strategy and related policies by attending the Pharmacy Communication Group and other Trust groups as directed by the Principal Pharmacist / Senior Clinical Pharmacist.
• To contribute to the development and monitoring of pharmacy objectives set by the national/regional and local agencies and others to meet clinical governance targets, develop patient care, improve clinical outcomes and ensure compliance with all standards expected for hospital pharmacy services and the interface between primary and secondary care.
• To ensure adherence to local and national guidance and formularies which exist eg Hospital formulary, NICE guidelines, Area Prescribing Committee etc.
• To provide clinical and ward pharmacy services within the Trust as required in respect of absence or leave arrangements for other Trust Principal Pharmacists.
• Undertake all other related duties that may be required.

COMMUNICATIONS AND WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
INTERNAL

• All other pharmacy staff (dispensary, medicines management)
• All levels of doctors from consultants to FY1
• Nurses
• Dieticians
• Principal Pharmacist
• Therapy Staff
• Finance Department
• Personnel Department
• Estates and IT Department
• Patients and their carers/families
• Administrative Staff

EXTERNAL

• General Practitioners and their staff
• Nursing and residential home staff
• Pharmaceutical representatives
• NHS Organisations
• Community Pharmacists and their staff

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