Employer Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Michael Carlisle Centre / Community - City Wide / Agile Town Sheffield
Salary Dependant on experience
Closing 12/02/2025 23:59
NHS AfC: Band 8a
About us 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
Are you an experienced pharmacist with an interest in Mental Health? Do you want to be a part of our Primary and Community Mental Health Service for people with Serious Mental Illness? Are you keen to work with voluntary sector partners to support people in their local communities? This post is open to qualified mental health pharmacists and clinical pharmacists looking to expand their knowledge and expertise to work in this area. There will be opportunities to complete additional training courses individual to learning needs including the Mental Health Specialist Pharmacist Training Pathway and the Independent Prescribing course. Regular clinical supervision with a consultant psychiatrist will be offered. Clinical and line management supervision from the Lead Pharmacist in the team. Reduced hours and flexible working will be considered. Main duties of the job
You will: Have a passion for partnership working to ensure people with serious mental illness are supported to live well in their communities without barriers and thresholds to care and treatment. Work in a multidisciplinary team of mental health professionals to provide care for those with SMI within Primary Care Networks in Sheffield. Be part of an experienced team of mental health pharmacists to provide the following interventions: Work directly with SMI patients to provide mental health medication review and optimisation including those with complex needs, polypharmacy, co-morbidities, intolerable side-effects, treatment failure, personality disorder, and learning disabilities. Create patient-centred care treatment plans with a trauma-informed approach to improve patient outcomes. Provide patient education and engage in shared decision making. Implement changes in collaboration with the patient, review outcomes, effectiveness, side-effects and stabilise medication regimen. Provide prescribing advice and recommendations based on up-to-date evidence base, local and national guidance, economic viability, safety and patient preference. Work as part of an MDT to support and advise colleagues within your team. Take a wider leadership and education role in improving mental health prescribing supporting other prescribers. Working for our organisation
We are passionate about providing the very best care to the people we support, and we're looking for amazing people who share this passion to join us. What is it that makes our Trust such a special place to work? Well, it's all about the people. Our staff, service users, carers and families all come from such diverse backgrounds and all have expertise and stories to share. It’s important that you feel supported in your role, that the people who you work with are as passionate as you are and that your health and wellbeing is taken care of. If you're interested in developing your career, you'll have access to a range of training and education opportunities, including apprenticeships, work experience and placements, as well as the chance to get involved in research. We are all very proud of the difference we make to people's lives each and every day and if that's something that you'd like to be part of we'd love to have you with us. Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will focus on medicines optimisation in Mental Health. They will liaise with all Sheffield Accountable Care Partnership organisations to: Support the development and work with existing pathways, protocols and guidelines so the patients receive safe, clinically effective and timely mental health medication in the most appropriate care setting. Work with health and social care providers to promote existing and develop new tools, to increase the annual health checks in patients with Learning Disability and Severe Mental Illness and other Mental Health conditions as indicated. Promote and deliver the principles of STOMP/ STAMP to reduce the prescribing of psychotropic medication in patients with LD, Autism or both, with an aim of reducing premature mortality and morbidity in patients in these patient groups. Provide support, clinical expertise and educational sessions to pharmacy / HCP / patients in primary care networks. Support 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. Provide expert advice around prescribing in Mental Health conditions to primary care organisations. Utilise local intelligence and data to target areas of Mental Health Prescribing to audit and review. Produce action plans and drive implementation changes as indicated by results. Work with SHSC and GP practices to support smooth transition of complex patients, from specialist to primary care, and vice versa as needed. Support the care of patients, with regard to medicines, when they transition from children’s to adult services / primary care. Work to and embed STOMP / STAMP principles. Support the management of shared care so patients are being monitored and reviewed in line with best practice / evidence / guidance. Carry out medication reviews in patients / patient groups identified as being a priority within the primary care setting. General requirements Develop a culture that promotes equality and values diversity. The post holder must be aware of and committed to the Equality and Diversity policies of SHSC. Ensure the principles of openness, transparency and candour are observed and upheld in all working practices. The post holder will have, or acquire through training provided by the organisation, the appropriate level of safeguarding and knowledge, skills and practice required for the post. Ensure that any infection prevention and control issues are reported to the line manager/Infection Prevention and Control. Work flexibly and travel to GP practices /provider settings at various locations across the city. Work as an Independent prescriber or work towards this qualification. Form part of the mental health clinical pharmacy team ensuring the safe effective use of medicines throughout the ACP. Participation in continuous professional development. Participation in clinical supervision. Spend significant amounts of time on VDU if necessary to meet objectives/deadlines. Managerial Responsibilities Able to take action based on own interpretation of broad professional policies/procedures where necessary. Able to handle clinical queries and prioritise tasks according to level of urgency. Able to make decisions and taking urgent actions in isolation from pharmacy work colleagues as needed. The following represent a broad outline of tasks the post holder will be expected to perform in achieving their key result areas. These are not intended as a fixed list of duties. The post holder will, under the direction of the Chief Pharmacist, perform whatever duties are reasonably necessary to achieve the job purpose and the overall safe provision of pharmacy services throughout the Trust. System-wide responsibilities Promote medicines optimisation in Mental Health across the ACP and to promote tools and resources to maximise wellbeing. Work with pharmacists within the ACP to promote current prescribing guidelines and identify areas where guidelines are needed to support the safe, clinically appropriate prescribing of medication to patients with mental illness. Consider what actions / tools and resources are needed to embed guidelines within all relevant organisations. Use local intelligence, feedback, national priorities and local data sources to identify prescribing areas to review and work with key stakeholders to develop audit tools to promote best practice around medicines optimisation in MH. Promote the importance and increase the uptake of monitoring / annual health checks in patients with SMI, LD other MH conditions. Identify gaps / opportunities and work to find solutions to further optimise the use of medication in mental health. Work with key stakeholders to develop and deliver education and training around prescribing in MH, targeting, but not limited to; community pharmacy, Primary Care Sheffield, GP practice staff, patients. Have an understanding of non-pharmacological support (psychological and social) on offer to support mental health and wellbeing. Promote the principles of STOMP / STAMP to reduce inappropriate prescribing of psychotropic medication. Work to support the transition of patients as they move across different care settings. The post holder will work with the current Medicines Optimisation Team (CCG) to respond to queries from the CCG membership practices around prescribing in MH. Practice based responsibilities Help improve medicines optimisation and medicines management for patients who have mental health related conditions. Use data, local and national intelligence to identify areas where improvement can be made around medicines optimisation in MH. Be aware of local and national guidelines and formularies and implement these into practice. Provide patient-facing, clinically focused medicines optimisation reviews. Participate in multidisciplinary team meetings and medication reviews. Communicate to and receive complex medicines information from prescribers, patients and carers. Help reduce polypharmacy, inappropriate prescribing and improve monitoring of prescribing MH medication. Support practices with the delivery of MH related prescribing QoF indicators and CQC requirements. Support the transition of patients as they move between different care settings. Embed STOMP/STAMP principles. Manage systems and processes around shared care arrangements. To be a role model and resource for other health care professionals. Develop collaborative partnerships across organisational boundaries. Provide specialist advice and information on the safe, cost-effective and evidenced based use of medicines in mental health. Deliver education and training packages around prescribing in MH. To participate in the training and supervision of pharmacy undergraduates. Plan and organise own timetable and workload. Information resources Utilise a range of IT systems including SystmOne, Emis Web, Eclipse Live, Insight, Ulysses, DATIX, ICE. Provide reactive and pro-active medicines information to doctors, nurses and other health care professional staff. Research and development Undertake surveys/audits of the Clinical Pharmacy service and medicines use. Produce reports and action plans for audits undertaken. Support any clinical trials subscribed to by the trust/ACP. Person specification
Training, Qualifications and Registration
Masters Degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent pharmacy degree. Hold current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council. Hold a relevant post-registration qualification such as Diploma in Mental Health Pharmacy, or Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy. Membership of the College of Mental Health Pharmacy, or equivalent. Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS). Registered Prescriber. Knowledge and Skills
Have a high level of clinical pharmacy skills and knowledge. Be computer literate and have the ability to learn to use a variety of electronic notes and prescribing systems. Competent interpersonal skills and able to achieve outcome through team working. Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team. Ability to supervise and mentor staff. Ability to develop and deliver training activities and presentations. Effective verbal and written communication skills. Clear understanding of local pathways and non-pharmacological resources to support mental health and wellbeing. Empathy and understanding of medication issues facing people with mental health problems and their carers. Knowledge of relevant clinical guidelines and their application to best practice. Knowledge of recent developments in mental health practice or equivalent specialities. Clear understanding of psychological and social importance in mental health and wellbeing. Proven skills in information retrieval. Demonstrated ability to work with other professional team members in secondary care. Experience and skills of multidisciplinary audit. Experience and understanding of pharmacist aspects of clinical trials including Good Clinical Practice. Knowledge of root cause analysis. Experience
Significant post-registration experience in evidence-based clinical pharmacy practice. Evidence of working as part of a clinical team. Evidence of developing own role and managing new initiatives. Experience in delivering MH training to HCPs and to patients/carers. Experienced in multidisciplinary team working. Experience of clinical pharmacy practice in mental health. Previous secondary care (hospital) pharmacy practice. Evidence of the application of clinical guidelines to practice. Experience of managing and investigating medicines safety alerts and incidents. Experience of developing and embedding medicines optimisation in routine clinical practice. Other
Be conscientious and methodical in their approach to work. Be flexible, adaptable and responsive regarding changes in practice. Be able to travel to all areas of the Trust in a timely and effective manner. We aim to be an organisation that is diverse and inclusive and to meet this aim we welcome applications from people with a wide range of life experience and whose diversity echoes the diversity of Sheffield. We are a Disability Confident employer level 2 and hope to achieve level 3 this year. We offer a guaranteed interview to disabled applicants who meet all of the essential criteria for a role. The Trust is committed to safeguarding adults and children and as part of our safe recruitment practice the successful applicant(s) will be subject to a check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) if it is deemed appropriate for the role.
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About us 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
Are you an experienced pharmacist with an interest in Mental Health? Do you want to be a part of our Primary and Community Mental Health Service for people with Serious Mental Illness? Are you keen to work with voluntary sector partners to support people in their local communities? This post is open to qualified mental health pharmacists and clinical pharmacists looking to expand their knowledge and expertise to work in this area. There will be opportunities to complete additional training courses individual to learning needs including the Mental Health Specialist Pharmacist Training Pathway and the Independent Prescribing course. Regular clinical supervision with a consultant psychiatrist will be offered. Clinical and line management supervision from the Lead Pharmacist in the team. Reduced hours and flexible working will be considered. Main duties of the job
You will: Have a passion for partnership working to ensure people with serious mental illness are supported to live well in their communities without barriers and thresholds to care and treatment. Work in a multidisciplinary team of mental health professionals to provide care for those with SMI within Primary Care Networks in Sheffield. Be part of an experienced team of mental health pharmacists to provide the following interventions: Work directly with SMI patients to provide mental health medication review and optimisation including those with complex needs, polypharmacy, co-morbidities, intolerable side-effects, treatment failure, personality disorder, and learning disabilities. Create patient-centred care treatment plans with a trauma-informed approach to improve patient outcomes. Provide patient education and engage in shared decision making. Implement changes in collaboration with the patient, review outcomes, effectiveness, side-effects and stabilise medication regimen. Provide prescribing advice and recommendations based on up-to-date evidence base, local and national guidance, economic viability, safety and patient preference. Work as part of an MDT to support and advise colleagues within your team. Take a wider leadership and education role in improving mental health prescribing supporting other prescribers. Working for our organisation
We are passionate about providing the very best care to the people we support, and we're looking for amazing people who share this passion to join us. What is it that makes our Trust such a special place to work? Well, it's all about the people. Our staff, service users, carers and families all come from such diverse backgrounds and all have expertise and stories to share. It’s important that you feel supported in your role, that the people who you work with are as passionate as you are and that your health and wellbeing is taken care of. If you're interested in developing your career, you'll have access to a range of training and education opportunities, including apprenticeships, work experience and placements, as well as the chance to get involved in research. We are all very proud of the difference we make to people's lives each and every day and if that's something that you'd like to be part of we'd love to have you with us. Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will focus on medicines optimisation in Mental Health. They will liaise with all Sheffield Accountable Care Partnership organisations to: Support the development and work with existing pathways, protocols and guidelines so the patients receive safe, clinically effective and timely mental health medication in the most appropriate care setting. Work with health and social care providers to promote existing and develop new tools, to increase the annual health checks in patients with Learning Disability and Severe Mental Illness and other Mental Health conditions as indicated. Promote and deliver the principles of STOMP/ STAMP to reduce the prescribing of psychotropic medication in patients with LD, Autism or both, with an aim of reducing premature mortality and morbidity in patients in these patient groups. Provide support, clinical expertise and educational sessions to pharmacy / HCP / patients in primary care networks. Support 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. Provide expert advice around prescribing in Mental Health conditions to primary care organisations. Utilise local intelligence and data to target areas of Mental Health Prescribing to audit and review. Produce action plans and drive implementation changes as indicated by results. Work with SHSC and GP practices to support smooth transition of complex patients, from specialist to primary care, and vice versa as needed. Support the care of patients, with regard to medicines, when they transition from children’s to adult services / primary care. Work to and embed STOMP / STAMP principles. Support the management of shared care so patients are being monitored and reviewed in line with best practice / evidence / guidance. Carry out medication reviews in patients / patient groups identified as being a priority within the primary care setting. General requirements Develop a culture that promotes equality and values diversity. The post holder must be aware of and committed to the Equality and Diversity policies of SHSC. Ensure the principles of openness, transparency and candour are observed and upheld in all working practices. The post holder will have, or acquire through training provided by the organisation, the appropriate level of safeguarding and knowledge, skills and practice required for the post. Ensure that any infection prevention and control issues are reported to the line manager/Infection Prevention and Control. Work flexibly and travel to GP practices /provider settings at various locations across the city. Work as an Independent prescriber or work towards this qualification. Form part of the mental health clinical pharmacy team ensuring the safe effective use of medicines throughout the ACP. Participation in continuous professional development. Participation in clinical supervision. Spend significant amounts of time on VDU if necessary to meet objectives/deadlines. Managerial Responsibilities Able to take action based on own interpretation of broad professional policies/procedures where necessary. Able to handle clinical queries and prioritise tasks according to level of urgency. Able to make decisions and taking urgent actions in isolation from pharmacy work colleagues as needed. The following represent a broad outline of tasks the post holder will be expected to perform in achieving their key result areas. These are not intended as a fixed list of duties. The post holder will, under the direction of the Chief Pharmacist, perform whatever duties are reasonably necessary to achieve the job purpose and the overall safe provision of pharmacy services throughout the Trust. System-wide responsibilities Promote medicines optimisation in Mental Health across the ACP and to promote tools and resources to maximise wellbeing. Work with pharmacists within the ACP to promote current prescribing guidelines and identify areas where guidelines are needed to support the safe, clinically appropriate prescribing of medication to patients with mental illness. Consider what actions / tools and resources are needed to embed guidelines within all relevant organisations. Use local intelligence, feedback, national priorities and local data sources to identify prescribing areas to review and work with key stakeholders to develop audit tools to promote best practice around medicines optimisation in MH. Promote the importance and increase the uptake of monitoring / annual health checks in patients with SMI, LD other MH conditions. Identify gaps / opportunities and work to find solutions to further optimise the use of medication in mental health. Work with key stakeholders to develop and deliver education and training around prescribing in MH, targeting, but not limited to; community pharmacy, Primary Care Sheffield, GP practice staff, patients. Have an understanding of non-pharmacological support (psychological and social) on offer to support mental health and wellbeing. Promote the principles of STOMP / STAMP to reduce inappropriate prescribing of psychotropic medication. Work to support the transition of patients as they move across different care settings. The post holder will work with the current Medicines Optimisation Team (CCG) to respond to queries from the CCG membership practices around prescribing in MH. Practice based responsibilities Help improve medicines optimisation and medicines management for patients who have mental health related conditions. Use data, local and national intelligence to identify areas where improvement can be made around medicines optimisation in MH. Be aware of local and national guidelines and formularies and implement these into practice. Provide patient-facing, clinically focused medicines optimisation reviews. Participate in multidisciplinary team meetings and medication reviews. Communicate to and receive complex medicines information from prescribers, patients and carers. Help reduce polypharmacy, inappropriate prescribing and improve monitoring of prescribing MH medication. Support practices with the delivery of MH related prescribing QoF indicators and CQC requirements. Support the transition of patients as they move between different care settings. Embed STOMP/STAMP principles. Manage systems and processes around shared care arrangements. To be a role model and resource for other health care professionals. Develop collaborative partnerships across organisational boundaries. Provide specialist advice and information on the safe, cost-effective and evidenced based use of medicines in mental health. Deliver education and training packages around prescribing in MH. To participate in the training and supervision of pharmacy undergraduates. Plan and organise own timetable and workload. Information resources Utilise a range of IT systems including SystmOne, Emis Web, Eclipse Live, Insight, Ulysses, DATIX, ICE. Provide reactive and pro-active medicines information to doctors, nurses and other health care professional staff. Research and development Undertake surveys/audits of the Clinical Pharmacy service and medicines use. Produce reports and action plans for audits undertaken. Support any clinical trials subscribed to by the trust/ACP. Person specification
Training, Qualifications and Registration
Masters Degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent pharmacy degree. Hold current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council. Hold a relevant post-registration qualification such as Diploma in Mental Health Pharmacy, or Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy. Membership of the College of Mental Health Pharmacy, or equivalent. Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS). Registered Prescriber. Knowledge and Skills
Have a high level of clinical pharmacy skills and knowledge. Be computer literate and have the ability to learn to use a variety of electronic notes and prescribing systems. Competent interpersonal skills and able to achieve outcome through team working. Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team. Ability to supervise and mentor staff. Ability to develop and deliver training activities and presentations. Effective verbal and written communication skills. Clear understanding of local pathways and non-pharmacological resources to support mental health and wellbeing. Empathy and understanding of medication issues facing people with mental health problems and their carers. Knowledge of relevant clinical guidelines and their application to best practice. Knowledge of recent developments in mental health practice or equivalent specialities. Clear understanding of psychological and social importance in mental health and wellbeing. Proven skills in information retrieval. Demonstrated ability to work with other professional team members in secondary care. Experience and skills of multidisciplinary audit. Experience and understanding of pharmacist aspects of clinical trials including Good Clinical Practice. Knowledge of root cause analysis. Experience
Significant post-registration experience in evidence-based clinical pharmacy practice. Evidence of working as part of a clinical team. Evidence of developing own role and managing new initiatives. Experience in delivering MH training to HCPs and to patients/carers. Experienced in multidisciplinary team working. Experience of clinical pharmacy practice in mental health. Previous secondary care (hospital) pharmacy practice. Evidence of the application of clinical guidelines to practice. Experience of managing and investigating medicines safety alerts and incidents. Experience of developing and embedding medicines optimisation in routine clinical practice. Other
Be conscientious and methodical in their approach to work. Be flexible, adaptable and responsive regarding changes in practice. Be able to travel to all areas of the Trust in a timely and effective manner. We aim to be an organisation that is diverse and inclusive and to meet this aim we welcome applications from people with a wide range of life experience and whose diversity echoes the diversity of Sheffield. We are a Disability Confident employer level 2 and hope to achieve level 3 this year. We offer a guaranteed interview to disabled applicants who meet all of the essential criteria for a role. The Trust is committed to safeguarding adults and children and as part of our safe recruitment practice the successful applicant(s) will be subject to a check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) if it is deemed appropriate for the role.
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