Job description

Job responsibilities

Benefits of working for us include:

  • Flexible working options to support work-life balance.
  • 27 days annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell leave
  • Generous NHS pension scheme 20.68% employer contribution
  • Excellent learning and career development opportunities
  • Advanced IT enablement
  • Cycle to Work and car leasing scheme
  • Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
  • Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants via the Blue Light Card
  • Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities and more to support equality
  • Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave and access to our three staff nurseries

    • The must haves for this role:

  • Experience in mental health hospital pharmacy
  • Self motivated, confident and ability to prioritise
  • Have a flexible approach to work in order to meet the developing needs of the pharmacy service
  • Strong team player and must be able to navigate conflicting work priorities

    • If youre someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, join us and lets be outstanding together.

    We are happy to answer any questions that you may have. Please dont hesitate to call Dr Elizabeth Francis on 07876 217104 or email (elizabeth.francis@berkshire.nhs.uk) who will be delighted to answer any questions you may have about the vacancy.

    We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.

    Person Specification

    Education/Qualifications/Training

    Essential

  • Masters in pharmacy or equivalent from a British School of pharmacy or recognised equivalent
  • Statutory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
  • Clinical or psychiatric postgraduate certificate
  • Clinical or psychiatric postgraduate diploma

    • Desirable

  • Membership with RPS
  • Membership of the CMHP
  • Independent prescriber

    • Continuous Professional Development

    Essential

  • Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development
  • Trust induction and mandatory training

    • Previous Experience

    Essential

  • Suitable length of post registration experience as a practicing pharmacist
  • Minimum of 2 years’ experience in mental health hospital pharmacy
  • Good working knowledge of clinical governance and medicines management issues
  • Good working knowledge of mental health therapeutics and prescribing issues in mental health
  • Good working knowledge of mental health services and collaborative working in multidisciplinary teams
  • Experience in project facilitation
  • Experience of MDT mental health team working
  • Experience of service development
  • Experience of budget management
  • Experience of racial awareness training
  • Experience of providing information to mental health patients
  • Experience in supervising staff
  • Experience in training of other staff
  • Able to identify own development/training needs
  • Experience in carrying out medicines information queries, providing both verbal and written specialist advice
  • Experience of managing unpredictable work patterns and to effectively manage situations where concentration may be frequently interrupted, for advice

    • Desirable

  • Experience in clinical audit
  • Can demonstrate an understanding of the key stakeholders the post is likely to be supporting and how they will be expected to support them.

    • Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

    Essential

  • Excellent written and verbal skills for communicating with pharmacy team members, public and other healthcare professionals
  • Ability to establish effective working relationships
  • Ability to recognise and overcome barriers to understanding e.g. language, deaf, learning difficulties
  • Demonstrate the ability to work well as a team member
  • Ability to work well independently
  • Demonstrate empathy towards client group
  • Demonstrate good interpersonal and negotiation skills
  • Demonstrate ability to influence practice at directorate level
  • Effective negotiating skills
  • Good presentation skills
  • Diplomatic and assertive
  • Demonstrate initiative and problem solving skills
  • Ability to demonstrate attention to detail, accuracy and numeracy/ calculation skills
  • Sound IT skills
  • Ability to evaluate quality of own work
  • Demonstrate expert clinical knowledge and skills
  • Ability to critically appraise research and incorporate into practice
  • Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the clinical governance agenda
  • Ability to prioritise and manage own workload
  • Punctual and flexible across hours of work when required.
  • Effective organisation and time management skills
  • Ability to exercise own initiative within specialist area of mental health
  • Ability to work alone or in a team
  • Ability to plan/ organise new/future services
  • Ability to work under pressure, prioritise and meet deadlines

    • Additional Requirements

    Essential

  • Ability and willingness to travel across all Trust sites within the Berkshire Health economy
  • Flexible approach to work patterns in line with the needs of the service

    • Person Specification

    Education/Qualifications/Training

    Essential

  • Masters in pharmacy or equivalent from a British School of pharmacy or recognised equivalent
  • Statutory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
  • Clinical or psychiatric postgraduate certificate
  • Clinical or psychiatric postgraduate diploma

    • Desirable

  • Membership with RPS
  • Membership of the CMHP
  • Independent prescriber

    • Continuous Professional Development

    Essential

  • Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development
  • Trust induction and mandatory training

    • Previous Experience

    Essential

  • Suitable length of post registration experience as a practicing pharmacist
  • Minimum of 2 years’ experience in mental health hospital pharmacy
  • Good working knowledge of clinical governance and medicines management issues
  • Good working knowledge of mental health therapeutics and prescribing issues in mental health
  • Good working knowledge of mental health services and collaborative working in multidisciplinary teams
  • Experience in project facilitation
  • Experience of MDT mental health team working
  • Experience of service development
  • Experience of budget management
  • Experience of racial awareness training
  • Experience of providing information to mental health patients
  • Experience in supervising staff
  • Experience in training of other staff
  • Able to identify own development/training needs
  • Experience in carrying out medicines information queries, providing both verbal and written specialist advice
  • Experience of managing unpredictable work patterns and to effectively manage situations where concentration may be frequently interrupted, for advice

    • Desirable

  • Experience in clinical audit
  • Can demonstrate an understanding of the key stakeholders the post is likely to be supporting and how they will be expected to support them.

    • Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

    Essential

  • Excellent written and verbal skills for communicating with pharmacy team members, public and other healthcare professionals
  • Ability to establish effective working relationships
  • Ability to recognise and overcome barriers to understanding e.g. language, deaf, learning difficulties
  • Demonstrate the ability to work well as a team member
  • Ability to work well independently
  • Demonstrate empathy towards client group
  • Demonstrate good interpersonal and negotiation skills
  • Demonstrate ability to influence practice at directorate level
  • Effective negotiating skills
  • Good presentation skills
  • Diplomatic and assertive
  • Demonstrate initiative and problem solving skills
  • Ability to demonstrate attention to detail, accuracy and numeracy/ calculation skills
  • Sound IT skills
  • Ability to evaluate quality of own work
  • Demonstrate expert clinical knowledge and skills
  • Ability to critically appraise research and incorporate into practice
  • Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the clinical governance agenda
  • Ability to prioritise and manage own workload
  • Punctual and flexible across hours of work when required.
  • Effective organisation and time management skills
  • Ability to exercise own initiative within specialist area of mental health
  • Ability to work alone or in a team
  • Ability to plan/ organise new/future services
  • Ability to work under pressure, prioritise and meet deadlines

    • Additional Requirements

    Essential

  • Ability and willingness to travel across all Trust sites within the Berkshire Health economy
  • Flexible approach to work patterns in line with the needs of the service