Specialist Mental Health Pharmacist

At Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust we provide a range of mental health, learning disability, substance misuse, primary care and other specialist services designed around the needs of people in our city.

We have a dedicated and skilful team of people caring in Sheffield, which you could become a part of.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. These are: working together for our service users, respect and kindness, everyone counts, commitment to quality, improving lives.

Job overview

If you are looking for a new challenge in a supportive, enthusiastic and caring environment in a lovely part of Sheffield; Sheffield Health and Social Care Trust Pharmacy are looking to recruit well motivated, forward-thinking professionals to join our friendly team.

We are seeking a Specialist Pharmacist to work clinically within designated teams in inpatient and community mental health settings, acting as an expert source of pharmaceutical advice promoting safe, cost effective and evidence-based prescribing and medicines use. In addition to the focus above, as part of the SHSC pharmacy team you will also work to provide specialist mental health pharmaceutical support to across the trust to help achieve best outcomes with medicines. There will be a requirement to undertake on call support out of hours.

You will need to have excellent communication skills and enjoy working as part of a multi-disciplinary team. You will need to be friendly, approachable, adaptable, flexible, willing to learn new skills and be committed to continuous professional development.

Main duties of the job

As part of the pharmacy service, to ensure the safe and effective use of medicines throughout the Trust

• To support the use of medicines across the Trust to achieve best outcomes for service users in accordance with best practice.
• To apply clinical skills and expertise in the management of medicines in mental health in accordance with best practice.
• To prevent and reduce medicines related harm.
• To provide a high level of clinical pharmacy services to allocated teams.
• To undertake medications reviews and provide advice on medicines optimisation.
• Competently use electronic based notes and prescribing systems.
• Participate in systems to ensure continuous personal professional development, including any agreed post-registration qualifications. Work towards membership of the College of Mental Health Pharmacy (or equivalent).
• Participate in departmental systems of clinical supervision and peer support.
• Responsible for the day to day running of clinical trials service, including pharmacy trial specific procedures. 
• To work flexibly and travel to various locations across the city.
• To participate in On-call pharmacist service in accordance with local procedure.
• Participate in weekend, bank holiday and late working rotas in accordance with local procedure.

Working for our organisation

Become part of a vibrant team who are extremely passionate about staff engagement, culture, and improvement, where everyone has a voice and where service users and staff collaborate to have a direct impact on the things that matter most.

We want to provide the very best care to the people we support, and we're looking for amazing people who share this passion to join us.

Our friendly department provides an environment that supports learning, team working and encourages individuals to develop in their role.

The Pharmacy Department is a forward thinking and progressive department seeking to expand our current team as we develop a patient focused and modern hospital pharmacy service to the Trust while constantly looking at ways to further improve our service.

We understand the importance of great team working and have strong links with other disciplines within and around the trust. The patient is at the Centre of all that we do, and we aim to provide a pharmacy service that has Medicine Optimisation as key.

We are looking to recruit full time (37.5) hours per week. We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly or part time.

SHSC has EPMA (electronic prescribing and medicines administrations) throughout the trust In-patient sites.