Senior Clinical Pharmacist -Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Team

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and committed pharmacist to providehigh-quality clinical pharmacy service to the North Kent Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams (CRHTTs). Disablement Services Centre, Medway Maritime Hospital, Windmill Road or Littlebrook Hospital, Bow Arrow Lane.If you are looking for an innovative clinical role, that is at the forefront of delivering patient-tailored care within the local community, with exciting opportunities for professional development and a good work-life balance, then look no further.

The post holder will need to have an independent prescribing qualification or be working towards it, a post-graduate qualification in pharmacy and mental health experience. On-going training and clinical supervision will be provided by the lead CRHTT pharmacist and Consultant Psychiatrists. The post holder will have the support of a Pharmacy Technician that will support the CRHTT, as well as further support from the Trust wide Pharmacy Team, including Community Mental Health Team based pharmacists. Our pharmacists are provided with opportunities for personal growth and development, including support for post-graduate qualifications in mental health pharmacy and NHS leadership courses. This exciting role will help facilitate the Kent and Medway Community Mental Health Transformation Programme designed to support patients, with severe mental illness (SMI), live fulfilling independent lives in the community.

The post holder will take on operational responsibility for the safe and effective delivery of medicines management services within their Crisis Resolution and Home Treatment Teams.

The post holder will be part of a multidisciplinary team and will provide the clinical expertise to support, monitor and review patients requiring advice and guidance in regards to prescribed medications. The post holder will also be required to network and drive innovation in mental health medicines optimisation across the primary and secondary care interface, supporting people with mental health conditions closer to their communities and homes.

The post holder will also work collaboratively with other pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in undertaking and developing audits and projects to evaluate and improve services, aligned with pharmacy and the Trust priorities and objectives.

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.

The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

The roles and duties of this post include:

• Deliver a high-quality, clinical pharmacy service to patients under the care of the CRHTT with Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT).
• Providing specialist advice and undertaking patient centred clinical reviews to manage people with complex mental health needs, polypharmacy, adherence issues and comorbidities.
• To work closely with inpatient and other community-based specialist clinical pharmacists to ensure seamless pharmaceutical care is provided throughout each patient’s journey
• To utilise prescribing and de-prescribing skills as a non-medical prescriber or working towards the qualification in line with competency and agreed scope of practice.
• Support and drive the development of work within the Primary and Community Mental Health Transformation Programme pathways, protocols and guidelines, so that patients receive safe, clinically effective and timely mental health medication in the most appropriate care setting.
• Promote seamless and integrated care for patients with mental health conditions, supporting the transition of patients across care settings so they receive the required level of care to support them in taking their medication safely in the most appropriate care setting.
• Support the management of shared care, ensuring patients are being monitored and reviewed in line with best practice, evidence and guidance.
• Support discharge planning to provide a smooth and safe transition of care. Ensure seamless pharmaceutical care across the KMPT teams where the post is based.
• Be responsible for relevant teaching and educational programmes for the staff in the CRHTTs and for health care professionals working in primary care.
• Be a member of the clinical on-call pharmacist service.