Advanced Clinical Pharmacist Bank - Band 8A

We are pleased to be advertising the opportunity to join our established and respected clinical pharmacy team as a bank clinical pharmacist within our mental health and learning disability services. The trust also provides community health services on some sites.

Our ideal candidates will be, self-motivated, patient-focused and compassionate, with an interest in mental health therapeutics and a clear clinical focus. 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 with mental health issues in the South West Yorkshire area, this is the opportunity for you.

It is an excellent opportunity to gain some experience in mental health, for those who would like to work in a variety of sectors or those who wish to maintain a flexible work life balance.

Our pharmacists are valued members of the inpatient multidisciplinary teams and the service is currently in a process of developing a strategy to expand our clinical services and deliver a high quality medicines optimisation and management service across all trust services.

The Trust has pharmacy teams based in Barnsley, Calderdale, Dewsbury, Halifax Huddersfield and Wakefield., Our clinical pharmacists provide medicines optimisation services to our inpatient wards and community mental health teams, having direct patient contact where possible.

We provide medicines information and clinical review of more complex cases for clinical colleagues.

We have just completed EPMA roll out to all our mental health inpatient wards.

You would be supported and working within our specialist teams of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.

Other work may include contributing to audit and assurance programmes, education and training of pharmacy colleagues and other professionals or supporting production of clinical guidance.

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 were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were 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.