Senior Mental Health Pharmacist - Initial Response Service

Ensure the provision of a specialist clinical pharmacy service within a community mental health service, working as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team. As the Initial Response Service pharmacist you will be the first point of contact for any medication advice and guidance from primary care colleagues, people who use services and carers. You will support clinicians within the service with medicines management-related queries and improve the care of people with mental health issues through medicines optimisation.

Provide medicine-related advice and guidance to colleagues in primary care and medicines optimisation support to clinicians within the service.

Contribute to the patient assessment in relation to medicines optimisation and undertake medicines reconciliation as part of a 'trusted' assessment.

Deliver medicine optimisation interventions, including undertaking a non-medical prescribing role where appropriate.

Provide highly specialised advice and information on medicines to a variety of other services/agencies/organisations and carers both within and outside mental health services.

Main duties of the job

Open to those with interest in part time and full time.

Our aim is to provide people with mental health issues access to the support they need, at the right time, with positive outcomes.

As the Initial Response Service pharmacist you will be the first point of contact for any medication advice and guidance from primary care colleagues, people who use services and carers. You will support clinicians within the service with medicines management-related queries and improve the care of people with mental health issues through medicines optimisation.

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.