NhsJobs Lewisham

• To provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service to allocated SLaM community mental health teams and, where required, home treatment teams

• To work as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team, providing evidence-based advice on complex medicines-related issues, including drug interactions, high-dose antipsychotic treatment, unlicensed medicines and areas where the evidence base is limited.

• To support safe transfers of care by liaising with primary care, community pharmacies, acute hospitals, inpatient wards, home treatment teams and other relevant services.

• To have medicines related consultations with patients and carers; involve patients in treatment decisions; improve patient and carer satisfaction with information they receive about medicines

• To improve physical health outcomes for community mental health patients, for example by participating in vaccination programmes, physical health clinics and physical health monitoring programmes

• To support the community teams to use medicines safely and effectively and reduce medicines wastage

• To implement medicines optimisation and quality improvement programmes in the teams

• To provide medicines related training to community mental health team staff and other members of the pharmacy team

• To prescribe medicines to service users within competence and agreed management plans

• To participate in the inpatient or dispensary service on a rotational basis where required to by the site lead pharmacist

• To record clinical interventions, patient outcomes and relevant service data to demonstrate the impact of the pharmacy service and inform medicines safety and service improvement

Job description

• To provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service to allocated SLaM community mental health teams and, where required, home treatment teams

• To work as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team, providing evidence-based advice on complex medicines-related issues, including drug interactions, high-dose antipsychotic treatment, unlicensed medicines and areas where the evidence base is limited.

• To support safe transfers of care by liaising with primary care, community pharmacies, acute hospitals, inpatient wards, home treatment teams and other relevant services.

• To have medicines related consultations with patients and carers; involve patients in treatment decisions; improve patient and carer satisfaction with information they receive about medicines

• To improve physical health outcomes for community mental health patients, for example by participating in vaccination programmes, physical health clinics and physical health monitoring programmes

• To support the community teams to use medicines safely and effectively and reduce medicines wastage

• To implement medicines optimisation and quality improvement programmes in the teams

• To provide medicines related training to community mental health team staff and other members of the pharmacy team

• To prescribe medicines to service users within competence and agreed management plans

• To participate in the inpatient or dispensary service on a rotational basis where required to by the site lead pharmacist

• To record clinical interventions, patient outcomes and relevant service data to demonstrate the impact of the pharmacy service and inform medicines safety and service improvement

What is the salary for this clinical pharmacist role in Lewisham?

The advertised salary for this clinical pharmacist role at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is £58133.00 to £65261.00 p.a.. Typical clinical pharmacist pay in Lewisham varies by experience, sector (NHS versus community), and employer; see the PharmSee UK pharmacy salary guide for benchmarks.

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