Rotational Clinical Pharmacist

It's an exciting time to join our Team. Our services have been restructured to support an enhanced service model under a senior leadership team which is fully committed to delivering outstanding services and investing in the development of its workforce.

Our roles provide an unparalleled opportunity to develop skills and experience across a wide range of clinical services. We provide a well-structured support system, including robust individual and group supervision and access to personal and professional development opportunities.

We are looking for enthusiastic and highly motivated pharmacists with excellent communication, organisational, and team-working skills to deliver clinical pharmacy services alongside multidisciplinary teams.

Previous hospital pharmacy or mental health experience is not essential. Induction and training will be provided. We welcome applications from newly registered pharmacists keen to work in secondary care or more experienced pharmacists looking for a new challenge or pharmacists seeking to gain experience or grow their expertise in mental and physical health.

We invite applications from qualified and registered pharmacists only.

This role offers a unique opportunity to undertake rotations across intermediate care physical health wards, inpatient mental health, secure and learning disabilities services.

Successful candidates will be responsible for delivering a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to designated wards, providing specialist information and advice to all members of the multi-disciplinary team, to maximise patient pharmaceutical care. You will be reliable, willing to learn, able to work on your own initiative and flexible to support the wider pharmacy team.

IMPORTANT:The main departmental base is at Maghull Health Park but this post is rotational and regular work-related travel across various Mersey Care sites is required.

The role is mainly clinically focused and includes a requirement to spend at least one session per week in the Maghull dispensary to develop and maintain core competencies.

Successful applicants will be expected to support the out of hours advice only medicines advice service at a maximum rota frequency of 1 in 12, including weekend working in the dispensary between 9:30am-13:30pm.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

To be actively involved in providing a seven-day medicines management service to Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust.

To work on a rotational basis within a variety of settings, supported by the wider medicines management team.

To be responsible for delivering a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to designated wards, providing specialist information and advice to all members of the multi-disciplinary team, to maximise patient pharmaceutical care.

To participate in the dispensary and on call rota to ensure that medicines are supplied in an accurate and timely manner.

To work flexibly in line with the hours of operation.

Refer to the job description and person specification for full details.

• Excellent organisational skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Good time management
• Ability to travel between different sites
• Ability to work as a team player and to work independently
• Ability to work flexibly
• Pro-active and displays initiative
• Ability to adapt to changing environments, needs and demands
• Report writing skills
• Professional manner
• Critical appraisal skills

• Accountability
• Support
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet

• Demonstrable evidence of commitment to self development and CPD
• Experience of working within pharmaceutical services
• Experience of undertaking audit within pharmaceutical services
• Understanding of how medicines optimisation contributes to high quality patient care
• Understanding and positive regard for the needs and rights of people with mental health…