Principal Clinical Pharmacist Mental Health - Division Leads

• Influence prescribing practice and contribute to Trust-wide medicines optimisation strategy and governance
• Use Independent Prescribing skills (where qualified) within agreed scopes and Trust policy
• Support medicines safety through incident review, learning, audit and quality improvement initiatives
• Line manage and develop Band 6/7 pharmacists and other pharmacy staff, fostering a strong learning culture
• Deliver and oversee education and training for pharmacists, technicians and wider healthcare professionals
• Contribute to policy development, formulary management and Trust committees (e.g. Drugs & Therapeutics)
• Work collaboratively across services and systems to support safe and seamless transfer of care

• leadership and management training opportunities
• 5% on top of basic salary high cost allowance supplement (subject to a minimum and a maximum payment pro rata)
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service) plus bank holidays (pro rata where applicable)
• One of the UK's best pension schemes
• Free Pilates lessons
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing services
• Special leave for family and personal reasons
• NHS Car Lease Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme

Essential

• BPharm / MPharm / BSc Pharmacy
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Postgraduate clinical pharmacy certificate/ diploma or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrates own CPD record/ or documented CPD

Desirable

• Registration with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
• Postgraduate Certificate/diploma in Psychiatric Therapeutics or equivalent experience
• Postgraduate diploma in Advanced Clinical Practice
• Leadership or Management Qualification
• Independent prescribing qualification (or working towards)
• Member of the RPS Education and Standards Committee
• Post-registration Foundation or Core advanced credentialed with RPS

Essential

• Experience of working in a secondary care setting, (demonstrable post qualification hospital pharmacy practice)
• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
• Evidence of involvement in clinical pharmacy provision and in operational management
• Writing and reviewing of policies, guidelines, and procedures
• Documented evidence of completed audit work and research practice
• Good, broad clinical knowledge and ability to apply to a ward, community and dispensary setting
• Experience in managing workload

Desirable

• Experience of working as a member of a multidisciplinary team in mental health and learning disabilities
• Evidence of education, training, performance management and development of staff
• Good management skills - including recruitment, supervision, and appraisals
• Experience showing leadership skills or equivalent
• Managing quality and cost effectiveness initiatives
• Experience in incident analysis and investigation
• Awareness of current issues facing the NHS
• Experience of project management
• Experience of carrying out clinical supervision
• Experience of chairing committees

Essential

• Advanced IT skills and comprehensive use of Microsoft office including power point and excel
• An ability to organise and prioritise own workload and that of others
• An ability to lead, inspire and motivate a team
• Engaging, compassionate and caring communication skills when dealing with patients/family/carers on complex/sensitive issues
• Experience of delivering training to staff
• Highly developed physical skills in dispensing, preparing, and checking of medicines involving a high level of accuracy.
• English language competency sufficient to communicate effectively with all staff and deliver education sessions in an appropriate form
• Advanced computer, keyboard and mouse skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Confident, able to influence and assertive when dealing with other professionals.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Team player with leadership skills
• Able to prioritise and meet deadlines
• Demonstrates empathy towards client groups
• Shows initiative and has well-developed problemsolving skills
• Demonstrates attention to detail, accuracy, and numeracy skills

Desirable

• Ability to analyse highly complex information, both clinical, financial, and managerial

Essential

• Advanced theoretical and technical, clinical and pharmaceutical knowledge relating to the promotion of high quality, effective and cost-efficient use of medicines, including a wide range of work procedures and practices
• An awareness of NHS Plan, and clinical governance priorities
• Good knowledge of all medicines legislation relating to the supply and storage of medicines

Essential

• Able to deal with conflicting demands on workload and frequent interruptions
• Ability to work under pressure
• Able to influence other professionals
• Able to communicate with service users
• Able to impart complex information in a manner understandable to junior staff and students.

Essential

• Able to make judgements involving complex facts or situations which require analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options
• Able to critically appraise clinical trial data and research papers.

Essential

• Moving handling of laptop and other materials
• Sitting and standing for long periods of time in different settings
• Driving across Hertfordshire to different bases/units
• Able to work late duties/ bank holidays/weekends as per rota/take part in annual stock take

Essential

• The job will require frequent use of VDU equipment every day and intense concentration in a sometimes-noisy open plan office environment
• The post holder may encounter challenging/hostile service users when visiting the mental health units
• Communication of complex information about medicines regarding individual service users within own organisation and across other organisations for example commissioning organisations, acute trusts, or community pharmacy

Essential

• Welcoming/Kind/Positive/Respectful/Professional