Senior Mental Health Pharmacist - Initial Response Service

Job overview

Ensure the provision of a specialist clinical pharmacy service within a community mental health service, working as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team. As the Initial Response Service pharmacist you will be the first point of contact for any medication advice and guidance from primary care colleagues, people who use services and carers. You will support clinicians within the service with medicines management-related queries and improve the care of people with mental health issues through medicines optimisation.

Provide medicine-related advice and guidance to colleagues in primary care and medicines optimisation support to clinicians within the service.

Contribute to the patient assessment in relation to medicines optimisation and undertake medicines reconciliation as part of a ‘trusted’ assessment.

Deliver medicine optimisation interventions, including undertaking a non-medical prescribing role where appropriate.

Provide highly specialised advice and information on medicines to a variety of other services/agencies/organisations and carers both within and outside mental health services.

Main duties of the job

Open to those with interest in part time and full time.

Our aim is to provide people with mental health issues access to the support they need, at the right time, with positive outcomes.

As the Initial Response Service pharmacist you will be the first point of contact for any medication advice and guidance from primary care colleagues, people who use services and carers. You will support clinicians within the service with medicines management-related queries and improve the care of people with mental health issues through medicines optimisation.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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