Band 8a Highly Specialist Pharmacist Prescriber – CAMHS

Lead the development, delivery, evaluation and continuous improvement of pharmacy services within CAMHS, identifying opportunities to improve patient outcomes, medicines safety and service transformation in line with local and national priorities.

Provide specialist pharmaceutical expertise to multidisciplinary CAMHS teams, including literature searches and the provision of verbal and written advice on the safe and effective use of medicines in children and young people (CYP).

Clinically assess CYP referred for medicines optimisation support, undertake comprehensive medication reviews, and identify required clinical management, including initiating, adjusting or discontinuing medication within an agreed scope of practice and in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.

Work as an independent non-medical prescriber (or be willing to work towards this), delivering pharmacist-led clinics and managing an independent caseload of CYP receiving psychotropic medication. Support safe prescribing, treatment optimisation, adherence, physical health monitoring and shared decision-making with CYP and carers, in line with Trust policies and evidence-based guidance.

Provide specialist CAMHS and psychopharmacology advice across primary, secondary and tertiary care settings, and lead or contribute to medicines optimisation, medicines safety, audit, quality improvement and service development projects to support high-quality, evidence-based care.

The role will be based within the CAMHS Division, providing specialist pharmacy support to services across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. Base will be confirmed on appointment. Some hybrid remote working may be possible post-induction.

Travel to other AWP locations and primary care sites will be required for meetings and training.

Please see job description for full details of key result areas.

We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

We aim to provideHigh Quality, Compassionate Careeverywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all-round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.

Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

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