Senior Clinical Pharmacist

We are excited to celebrate the expansion of our community-based clinical pharmacy services with these new roles. Working with a clinical pharmacy technician you will support Adult Community Mental Health Teams to develop their medicines pathways and be a patient-facing clinician in your own right. You will join a successful and dynamic wider Medicines Optimisation team within Devon Partnership NHS Trust

There are 2 posts available. One is working with the community teams within Exeter. The second is supporting the teams across Mid Devon, based nominally in Exeter but working with teams in Tiverton and Crediton.

The main duties include:

• Be a key member of the clinical multidisciplinary team within community mental health teams.
• Oversee the safe and effective use of medicines within the teams through training, prescribing review, audit and clinical practice
• Establish your own clinical role as a clinician within the team

We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile;

making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.

Please see the attached

Job Description and Person Specification which will provide further information on this role

• Experience of working within a multidisciplinary healthcare team / environment.
• Ability to supervise activities of pharmacy technicians and assistants.
• Managing change in a complex environment and evidence of having successfully implemented change.

• Demonstrate an up to date and detailed knowledge of relevant guidelines and clinical practice in speciality

• Current registration as a Pharmacist General Pharmacy Council (GPhC).
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
• Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy / therapeutics or equivalent clinical experience
• Certificate/Diploma or Masters in Psychiatric Pharmacy practice or equivalent clinical experience
• Independent Prescribing Qualification (or be working towards completion)
• Member of the College of Mental Health Pharmacy

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Deputy Chief Pharmacist - Clinical Services