Are you an experienced Clinical Pharmacist seeking a new challenge? Are you looking to join a friendly and dynamic team within the NHS?

Service Care Solutions are recruiting for a Clinical Pharmacist to support Southern Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

This is a LOCUM opportunity for the duration of 12-weeks with the likelihood of extension.

This is a full-time placement with 37.5 hours per week available.

Part-time applications will be considered.



Job Purpose: Band 7 Clinical Pharmacist - Mental Health

Pay Rate: £30.00 LTD p/h + £250 Welcome Bonus

Location: Parklands Hospital, RG24 9RH

Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 08:00-17:00 | 37.5 Hours | Part-time roles considered

Key Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for providing clinical pharmacy input at multidisciplinary team level for inpatients, home treatment and community teams, demonstrating professional accountability to patients and working across traditional boundaries.


• Taking referrals from the MDT and within Pharmacy.


• To support other pharmacy staff providing a service to develop and maintain adequate competencies to deliver such a service.


• Participate in the dispensary rota and Medicines Information service in line with departmental requirements and recognised best practice (where needed).


• Manage and make appropriate referrals to other members of the multidisciplinary team and within the pharmacy department.
  
  


• Be able to critically appraise the literature and give accurate interpretation in order improve use of medicines.


• Reduce risk associated with medicines use by contributing to the safe medication practice agenda.
  
  This will include identification, investigating and reporting of medicines related errors.


• Develop and demonstrate expert clinical knowledge in the specialism of mental health pharmacy services to provide innovative, safe, clinically effective and cost-efficient use of medicines.


• To actively improve medicines safety by reporting medicines incidents and near misses and sharing learning across their teams.


• To work with the medicines safety officer to share learning from medicines incidents, improve incident reporting and continually improve medicines safety across the organisation by participating in medicines safety initiatives.


• To participate in the Trust's Emergency Duty Pharmacy service, in accordance with the rota.

Essential

• Registered with the GPhC


• Degree or equivalent in Pharmacy


• Previous experience in Mental Health