Job overview

Are you enthusiastic and passionate about improving the lives of patients with mental health conditions, then a role as a specialist pharmacist in our Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Trust could be right for you.  We have an exciting opportunity for an innovative, skilled clinical pharmacist to work as a core member of our community teams across Brighton and Hove.

You should have an interest for working within a specialist mental health service, an understanding of the medicines used and patients we care for.  The role will be based at the Trust community treatments clinics but also include home visitation across the Brighton and Hove area.

The post holder will be supported to undertake further accreditation and training as appropriate, and there are many opportunities to develop the role and service to fit in with our new Neighbourhood Mental Health Team (NMTH) structure, allowing your vision for clinical care to grow with the service in a collaborative, holistic and accessible therapeutic environment.

You will be joining a friendly, supportive pharmacy team which is highly regarded in the Trust.  This role represents a great opportunity to start or continue a career in mental health and can lead to future senior roles.

The Pharmacy leadership team is committed to education and training of the pharmacy workforce and will provide access to external training (including the introductory College of Mental Health Pharmacy Psych 1 and Psych 2 programme).

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide a clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation service to ensure patients in the community get the best from their medicines, as well as a strong commitment to medicines education and training so that patients, pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals are well informed and able to manage their use of medicines correctly, safely and cost effectively.

The role requires an excellent clinical communicator with an interest in patient facing and multidisciplinary team working.  In addition, the appraisal of clinical evidence and generation of high quality pharmacotherapeutic advice to support colleagues will feature as a core part of working.

Community services increasingly interface with primary care partners to ensure both the transition of care and the triage and receipt of referred patient, pharmacist input into these processes is crucial to maintain the medicines safety and optimisation.

There is currently no commitment to weekend or dispensary working.  On call is for advice only and is currently more than 1 in 30 weeks, with senior support provided and only band 7and above are on the on-call rota.

Working for our organisation

We are a friendly and committed pharmacy team, who are keen to support the wellbeing of our patients and each other.  

Sussex Partnership is one of the largest mental health trust in the UK. The physical health of our mental health patients is important to us and with the live expectancy of patients with serious mental health dying 15 to 20 years earlier, the trust is committed to reducing this risk and pharmacy play a key role in this.   

About us

As a mental health trust Sussex Partnership places a huge focus on the wellbeing of our staff, as well as ensuring our reward packages reflect the immensely important work they do.

You can expect:

• Access to full psychological support, the wellbeing team
• Excellent supervision programmes. 
• Flexible working opportunities
• Access to a host of discount schemes (including gyms, shopping, restaurants and cars)
• A position within a trust rated as Outstanding for caring and Good overall by the CQC
• Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days + 8 bank holidays)
• Excellent NHS Pension Scheme