Advanced Specialist Pharmacist (Home Treatment Team (HTT) Project)

Advanced Specialist Pharmacist (Home Treatment Team (HTT) Project) Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for an enthusiastic and confident clinical pharmacist with experience of working in mental health to support the leadership and delivery of a three-month project to improve medicines management and optimisation in our four Home Treatment Teams based in Guildford, Chertsey, Frimley and Redhill. Successful completion of this project will inform a business case for regular Pharmacy Service provision.

We are looking for a self-motivated individual who will thrive on a challenge, with an understanding of the medicine's optimisation issues within mental health. A wide range of experience and skills are required including excellent clinical, organisational, and communication skills, sound IT skills and the ability to work unsupervised and as part of a team. You will have a proven track record of successful implementation of medicines optimisation projects and have the vision to develop innovative solutions. Previous experience of working with community mental health services or home treatment teams would be advantageous.

Main duties of the job

This role will involve:

1. Visit and assess our teams to establish staff competence and knowledge relating to medicines management, and supporting the teams within the busy environment they work in.
2. Working closely with our HTT managers, Clinical Nurse Consultant, Clinicians and Pharmacy colleagues.
3. Setting out and implementing a comprehensive plan incorporating training needs analysis, patient and staff evaluation and a review of any relevant HTT medicines charts and paperwork where appropriate and present a report of the main findings and recommendations to the relevant service leads.
4. Providing limited support to the teams around medicines optimisation and enabling staff to better support individuals using the service in the context of prioritizing completion of this project.

A registered pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council, the postholder must have significant post registration experience, and highly specialist knowledge acquired through an accredited post-graduate pharmacy qualification (minimum 2-year university Diploma level) or equivalent demonstrable experience.

About us

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Job responsibilities

Please read the Job Description for further information about the duties and responsibilities of this role.

Person Specification Experience

• Post-registration experience of mental health and/or acute hospital pharmacy
• Multidisciplinary team working
• Training of other staff
• Experience of Leading on clinical audit
• Consulting with people using our services and provision of advice and information to those individuals and their carer's
• Experience of project work with quality improvement methodology

Qualifications and Professional Registration

• Degree in Pharmacy (MPharm or equivalent qualification) + one-year pre-registration/foundation training
• Postgraduate Certificate in General Pharmacy or Psychiatric Pharmacy (or equivalent)
• Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council
• Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical or Psychiatric Pharmacy
• Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Member of College of Mental Health Pharmacy

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

£55,877 to £62,626 a year Incl. 5% Fringe HCAS, pa, pro rata.