Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Inpatient Mental Health Services

Are you looking for a new challenge? Fancy joining a dynamic, forward-thinking, and patient-focussed team that is continuously striving to deliver excellent clinical pharmacy services?, To participate in the delivery of highly specialist clinical pharmacy services, ensuring that services meet professional standards and comply with relevant legislation.

To carry out medicines reconciliation, clinically checks and medication reviews to ensure the safe and effective use of medicines.

To actively participate and develop effective partnerships with other professions as part of a multi-disciplinary approach to medicines optimisation.

To undertake pharmaceutical care planning, utilising local trust guidance and national protocols.

To provide specialist information and advice on the safe and effective use of medicines to patients and their carers to support informed decision making and treatment adherence.

To ensure effective medication practices are developed and carried out consistently across mental health services, promoting medicines safety and reducing harm from medications.

To participate in clinical audit and practice research

To participate in training, supervision, mentoring and line management of colleagues

We have fantastic opportunities across our mental health in-patient and secure and learning disability services, for experienced, enthusiastic, adaptable, highly self-motivated pharmacists with a passion for mental health to join our friendly and supportive teams.

Successful candidates will be responsible for leading, delivering and developing our mental health clinical pharmacy services. You will support multi-disciplinary teams to deliver high quality, safe and cost-effective pharmaceutical care for patients.

We are looking for proactive candidates with excellent leadership and interpersonal communication skills and ability to work autonomously, build relationships, manage, and motivate a team.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.