Mental Health Pharmacist - Oxford

Join our team as a Mental Health Pharmacist in this exciting developmental post at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. We are looking for a dedicated and enthusiastic pharmacist to deliver innovative clinical pharmacy services to in-patients, out-patients, and day-patients. You'll work closely with a multi-disciplinary team to optimise drug therapy, ensuring the best outcomes for patients across Oxfordshire., In this role you'll be:
+ Working alongside clinical pharmacy colleagues across the Mental Health Directorate
+ Responsible for the development of strong clinical relationships with the patients, carers and healthcare professionals in your in-patient and community settings.
+ Directly supporting patients, prescribers, and other healthcare professionals via attendance at multi-disciplinary team (MDT) meetings and one-to-one patient consultations, carry out medication reviews, engage in discharge-planning with the MDT and ensure the correct application of national and local guidance with regard to therapies involving medicines.
+ Supporting and working alongside our centralised hub pharmacist where necessary (based at the Clinical Pharmacy Support Unit).
+ Supporting the ongoing development of the community based pharmacy services and departmental clinical effectiveness initiatives.
+ A member of the on-call pharmacist out of hours team as per rota where applicable.
+ Encouraged and supported to professionally develop in line with the departmental and your own personal needs as appropriate.
Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties

The role covers specialities including inpatient adult, older adult, children and adolescent units, as well as working with the Directorate Lead Pharmacist to develop our community-based mental health team, which is in its infancy. This is a patient-facing role where you'll be working with the healthcare team on clinical sites. There are times where remote working can be facilitated and we can offer a variety of flexible working solutions, including full, part-time, and annualised hour contracts.
This is an excellent developmental opportunity for experienced pharmacists to elevate their career and gain experience within hospital pharmacy and mental health care.
If you are registered with the GPC and have experience in, or have a passion for hospital pharmacy, then we'd love to hear from you!
The ability to travel freely between sites across the Trust is essential for this role. Applicants must have a full valid driving licence and have access to a vehicle for work. Adjustments can be considered in line with the Equality Act 2010 where required.

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you're excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community., The Oxford Health Pharmacy & Medicines Management service employs approximately 80 staff, predominantly clinical pharmacists, and technicians, supported by dispensary and administrative staff. Clinical pharmacists and medicines management technicians are based (primarily) on clinical sites, with supply and support functions at hubs in Oxfordshire. The department provides services to our mental health in-patient and outpatient teams, including Acute adult mental health services, Forensic services, Learning disability services and CAMHS, as well as community hospitals. Our Medicines Management Service is highly respected, and our staff are considered integrated members of the patient-focused multi-disciplinary teams in this Trust.
Please refer to the job description and guidance notes attached for further information on this role
+ All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
+ Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
+ Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
+ We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
+ We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values - safe, caring and excellent.
+ Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
+ Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible.
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"
Our values are: "Caring, safe and excellent"
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
+ Excellent opportunities for career progression
+ Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
+ 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
+ NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
+ Competitive pension scheme
+ Lease car scheme
+ Cycle to work scheme
+ Employee Assistance Programme
+ Mental Health First Aiders
+ Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
+ Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team