Specialist Pharmacist Inpatient Mental Health - Northwest Sussex

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Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust .The post is primarily based at Langley Green Hospital within a friendly, supportive Pharmacy team that is expanding due to recent investments. This role offers opportunities to develop the service to inpatient wards and urgent care in a collaborative, holistic and accessible therapeutic environment.If you are enthusiastic about improving the lives of patients needing mental healthcare, this role as a Specialist Pharmacist in our Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Trust could be right for you. The role focuses on inpatient and rehab teams across Northwest Sussex and involves working within a specialist mental health service with a strong medicines focus.Responsibilities

Provide a clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation service to ensure patients get the best from their medicines.Contribute to medicines education and training so that patients, pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals manage medicines safely, effectively and cost-efficiently.Offer high quality pharmacotherapeutic advice through appraisal of clinical evidence to support colleagues in a multidisciplinary setting.Work with inpatient services that interface with community services and primary care to ensure safe transitions and medicines safety.Engage in on-call arrangements for advice (on-call rota is currently more than 1 in 30 weeks; Senior support provided; only band 7 and above on rota).Continue professional development with opportunities to undertake external training (including the introductory College of Mental Health Pharmacy Psych1 and Psych2 programmes).What you can expect

Access to full psychological support and wellbeing services.Excellent supervision programmes and flexible working opportunities.Access to discount schemes (gyms, shopping, restaurants and cars).A position within a trust rated as Outstanding for caring and Good overall by the CQC.Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays) and an excellent NHS Pension Scheme.About Us / You Can Expect

Sussex Partnership is one of the largest mental health trusts in the UK. We are a friendly and committed pharmacy team, keen to support the wellbeing of our patients and each other. The pharmacy leadership team is committed to education and training of the pharmacy workforce and will provide access to external training.Qualifications / How to Apply

Responsibilities require an excellent clinical communicator with an interest in patient-facing and multidisciplinary team working.Experience in clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation within a mental health setting is desirable.Contact

For further details / informal visits contact:Name: Emmanuella OdihJob title: Lead Pharmacist Northwest Sussex (Inpatient)Email: e.odih@nhs.netTelephone: 07471217062Emma Williams,Associate Divisional Director of PharmacyTelephone: 07471217354Email: ..... full job details .....