Senior Clinical Pharmacist inFolkestone (CT19 5HL) or Dover (CT16 2AH) inFolkestone (CT19 5HL) or Dover (CT16 2AH) PUBLISHED
TUE 21 JAN 2025
In addition to delivering high-quality pharmaceutical care, the Senior Clinical Pharmacist will oversee the management of medicines, support shared care arrangements, contribute to patient discharge planning, and engage in education and training for community mental health team staff. The role offers ongoing training, clinical supervision, and opportunities for professional development, including post-graduate qualifications and leadership courses. The successful candidate will work both independently and as part of a collaborative team, ensuring effective medication management and support for patients across different care settings.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, and committed pharmacist to provide high-quality clinical pharmacy service to the South Kent Coastal community mental health team. If you're looking for an innovative clinical role, that is at the forefront of delivering patient-tailored care within the local community, with exciting opportunities for professional development and a good work-life balance, then look no further. This exciting role has been created as part of the Kent and Medway Community Mental Health Transformation Programme designed to support patients, with severe mental illness (SMI), live fulfilling independent lives in the community.
The post holder will need to have an independent prescribing qualification or be working towards it, a post-graduate qualification in pharmacy, and mental health experience. On-going training and clinical supervision will be provided by the lead clinical pharmacist for the community service line and Consultant Psychiatrists. The post holder will be supported by a CMHT-based Pharmacy Technician, further support will be available from the Trust-wide Pharmacy Team, including CMHT-based pharmacists. Our pharmacists are provided with opportunities for personal growth and development, including support for post-graduate qualifications in mental health pharmacy and NHS leadership courses.
The post holder will take on operational responsibility for the safe and effective delivery of medicines management services within their Community Mental Health Team.
The post holder will facilitate pharmacy-led clinics and reviews to support, monitor, and review patients requiring advice and guidance in regards to prescribed medications. The post holder will also be required to network and drive innovation in mental health medicines optimisation across the primary and secondary care interface, supporting people with mental health conditions closer to their communities and homes. The role involves working in partnership with GPs, primary care pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians, in addition to KMPT pharmacy team and clinicians in secondary care.
The post holder will be responsible for areas of service and line management of pharmacy technicians working within the community mental health team. The post holder will also work collaboratively with other pharmacists in undertaking and developing audits and projects to evaluate and improve services, aligned with pharmacy and the Trust priorities and objectives.
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The roles and duties of this post include:
- Deliver a high-quality, clinical pharmacy service to community-based patients and their carers within Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT).
- Providing specialist advice and undertaking patient centred clinical reviews to manage people with complex mental health needs, polypharmacy, adherence issues and comorbidities.
- To utilise prescribing and de-prescribing skills as a non-medical prescriber or working towards the qualification in line with competency and agreed scope of practice.
- Support and drive the development of work within the Primary and Community Mental Health Transformation Programme pathways, protocols and guidelines, so that patients receive safe, clinically effective and timely mental health medication in the most appropriate care setting.
- Promote seamless and integrated care for patients with mental health conditions, supporting the transition of patients across care settings so they receive the required level of care to support them in taking their medication safely in the most appropriate care setting.
- Support the management of shared care, ensuring patients are being monitored and reviewed in line with best practice, evidence and guidance.
- Support discharge planning to provide a smooth and safe transition of care. Ensure seamless pharmaceutical care across the KMPT teams where the post is based.
- Provide comprehensive clinical advice and guidance to GPs and pharmacists in primary care for people with mental health conditions and their treatment.
- Be responsible for relevant teaching and educational programmes for the staff in the CMHTs and for health care professionals working in primary care.
- Be a member of the clinical on-call pharmacist service
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