Job Description

Being part of a specialist pharmacy team working within mental health services ensuring that the changing medicines management and pharmacy needs are being met in Eating Disorder Services, in-patient and community teams for CAMHS in Kent and Medway.



Being part of a specialist pharmacy team working within mental health services ensuring that the changing medicines management and pharmacy needs are being met in Eating Disorder Services, in-patient and community teams for CAMHS in Kent and Medway.



Starting with NELFT



NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.



Probationary Period



This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

Key Responsibilities:

Participation in multidisciplinary team meetings, consultant ward rounds or case conferences relevant to the speciality as appropriate to identify medication problems and provide advice



Reviewing medication charts/EPMA on wards and community teams to optimise patients treatment; ensure their accuracy and appropriateness, including monitoring for interactions and adverse effects; interpreting medicines information to provide advice for individual service user circumstances



Giving prescribing advice to medical staff and non-medical prescribers



Advising on medicines risk management issues such as the reduction of medication incidents, and ensuring compliance with medicines legislation



Giving medicines optimisation advice to medical, nursing and other staff and medicines information to all service users, carers, and members of staff



Liaising with GPs, PCNs and community pharmacists, and involvement in discharge planning to ensure community medication needs of service users are fulfilled



Provide a medicines reconciliation service for patients with complex needs



Provide advice and information to service users and carers and actively be involved in self-medication schemes to promote patients independence



Support the running of the near-patient testing clozapine clinic



Support the provision of an equal standard of pharmacy service across the Trust by pro-actively developing and implementing protocols and guidelines, in collaboration with other professionals, for the safe, effective and economic use of medicines; providing supporting documents (e.g. pharmacy formulary reviews) for the Medicines Optimisation Group when requested



Involvement in a Trust wide medicines information service and contribution to the development of a comprehensive medicines management system within the Trust



Provide clinical supervision and support for less-experienced pharmacists, students, and supervise technicians (when undertaking ward and team clinical duties)



Undertake clinical and practice research and audit that will influence practice within the Trust. e.g. POMH -UK



Dispense medicines using the Trust labelling machine when required



Assist the senior pharmacists in pharmacy to develop clinical and other services within the Trust



To participate in the review process of all drug related incidents



To participate in formulary development and review in the specialities



To write and participate in the development of shared care guidelines where required for the specialities



To write and participate in the development of PGDs and training of staff on the use of PGDs where required for the specialities



Participate in, contribute to and take minutes for the clinical pharmacy meetings



Identify any problems with pharmacy supplies and report to the designated member of pharmacy staff or liaise with the contractor to rectify



To represent pharmacy at ward/team level meetings



Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application.



We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.



References



Please ensure that the references are from your most recent employer and one of these must be your direct Line Manager or Supervisor. You must provide professional email addresses for all referees as we will contact them as soon as an offer has been made. Please note we do not request references prior to interviews. Additionally, ensure that any gaps in your employment history are clearly indicated. All applications made through NHS Jobs account will be processed by TRAC System. Please note that some emails may go to your spam/junk mailbox so make sure you check this regularly.



Use of AI



Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used, then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.



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