Bank Band 8 Pharmacist

You will be joining and so supporting an innovative, award-winning pharmacy team who are forward thinking and are leading the medicines optimisation agenda trust wide., Provide highly specialist pharmaceutical advice concerning the care and treatment of service users in Mental Health (including Forensics) and Learning Disabilities Services and to promote safe, effective, and evidence-based cost-effective use of medicines within the Trust. Actively lead the provision and development of pharmaceutical services to a specific service line. Provide highly specific advice to clinical team members on the management of complex medicines related issues, such as complex drug interactions, medicines use in pregnancy, unlicensed/off-label use of medicines etc. Provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information, where developed persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathetic or re-assurance skills are required. This may be because agreement or cooperation is required or because there are barriers to understanding. This may also involve presenting complex, sensitive, or contentious information to a large group of staff, service users or carers.,

• To provide highly specific advice to clinical team members on the management of complex medicines related issues, such as complex drug interactions, medicines use in pregnancy, unlicensed/off-label use of medicines etc.
• To work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide clinical pharmaceutical support to designated areas to maximise benefits and minimise risk to service users. This will include medicines reconciliation, prescription review, medication reviews, identification and management of drug interactions and adverse effects, advice on clinical monitoring, medicines information, advising on supply problems, compliance with
Medicines legislation, compliance with Trust policies and guidelines and participation in multidisciplinary team meetings where appropriate.
• Accurately and efficiently screen, dispense, and check prescription for in patients, leave and discharge medication in order to facilitate and ensure the safe and effective administration and use of medication.
• To carry out medication reviews and provide a clinical pharmacy service and pharmaceutical advice and support to designated mental health or learning disabilities units or teams within the remit of HPFT. These reviews will support clinicians preparing care plans for individual service users.
• To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols. Where prescribing medicines as part of the role, to adhere to the trust Non-Medical Prescribing policy within area of competence.
• To have current effective status on the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• To have gained further professional and clinical knowledge through accredited courses workshops, study and in house training programmes.
• Provides clinical supervision and training to junior clinical pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.
• To ensure appropriate medicines optimisation, clinical review and risk assessment as deemed necessary when prescribing, reviewing, or advising on medicines related issues to service users and the wider multi-disciplinary team in a range of settings, inpatient or community.
• To provide service users and relatives with medicines information and education, ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence, and quality of life.
• To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature, and peer review.
• To supervise the competence of pharmacy staff in clinical service provision in line with the Clinical Pharmacy Standards.
  
  BPharm / MPharm / BSc Pharmacy
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), Experience of working in a secondary care setting, (demonstrable post qualification hospital pharmacy practice)
• Documented evidence of completed audit work and research practice, , Experience of delivering training to staff, Able to travel using own vehicle to various Trust and other locations across Hertfordshire. Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving), You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout