We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, and committed pharmacist to provide high-quality clinical pharmacy service to the South Kent Coastal community mental health team.
If you're 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. This exciting role has been created as part of 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 need to have an independent prescribing qualification or be working towards it, a post-graduate qualification in pharmacy, and mental health experience. Ongoing training and clinical supervision will be provided by the lead clinical pharmacist for the community service line and Consultant Psychiatrists. The post holder will be supported by a CMHT-based Pharmacy Technician, and further support will be available from the Trust-wide Pharmacy Team, including CMHT-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.
The post holder will take on operational responsibility for the safe and effective delivery of medicines management services within their Community Mental Health Team.
The post holder will facilitate pharmacy-led clinics and reviews to support, monitor, and review patients requiring advice and guidance regarding 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 role involves working in partnership with GPs, primary care pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians, in addition to KMPT pharmacy team and clinicians in secondary care.
The post holder will be responsible for areas of service and line management of pharmacy technicians working within the community mental health team. The post holder will also work collaboratively with other pharmacists 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.
At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and about inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people.
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
Check out our recruitment videos Recruitment - YouTube
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Adekemi Oluwabunmi
Job title: Lead Advanced Community Clinical Pharmacist
Email address: adekemi.oluwabunmi@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07584885079
Jagdip Bahia, Chief Pharmacist on 07796197394
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If you're 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. This exciting role has been created as part of 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 need to have an independent prescribing qualification or be working towards it, a post-graduate qualification in pharmacy, and mental health experience. Ongoing training and clinical supervision will be provided by the lead clinical pharmacist for the community service line and Consultant Psychiatrists. The post holder will be supported by a CMHT-based Pharmacy Technician, and further support will be available from the Trust-wide Pharmacy Team, including CMHT-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.
The post holder will take on operational responsibility for the safe and effective delivery of medicines management services within their Community Mental Health Team.
The post holder will facilitate pharmacy-led clinics and reviews to support, monitor, and review patients requiring advice and guidance regarding 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 role involves working in partnership with GPs, primary care pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians, in addition to KMPT pharmacy team and clinicians in secondary care.
The post holder will be responsible for areas of service and line management of pharmacy technicians working within the community mental health team. The post holder will also work collaboratively with other pharmacists 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.
At KMPT, we are serious about diversity and about inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people.
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
Check out our recruitment videos Recruitment - YouTube
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Adekemi Oluwabunmi
Job title: Lead Advanced Community Clinical Pharmacist
Email address: adekemi.oluwabunmi@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07584885079
Jagdip Bahia, Chief Pharmacist on 07796197394
#J-18808-Ljbffr
