Crisis Pathway Pharmacist

EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST, City of Westminster

Crisis Pathway Pharmacist

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EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST, City of Westminster

  • Part time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted 1 week ago, 15 Jun | Get your application in now before you miss out!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: a52c8fe23579437a83923f5a67744295

Full Job Description

Our dynamic and creative ELFT pharmacy team provides pharmacy services to a wide range of community and inpatient service users in Luton and Bedforshire, City and Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets. This includes children and young people to adults of working age, older adults, and forensic patients.
You will lead on the provision of pharmacy services in Hackney Crisis Team. You will also provide support to the medicines management technicians and pharmacists, provide operational support where required, provide a clinical pharmacy service to inpatient wards and work with the multidisciplinary team to ensure the delivery of a safe and effective service to mental health patients in our directorate.
The post is 37.5 hours worked over 5 days, Monday-Friday. There may be an opportunity to build hours on BANK outside the contracted hours., · Work towards health promotion and prevention and comprehensively assess and manage patients for risk factors and vulnerabilities.
· Lead on Medicines Optimisation initiatives within the Crisis Pathway
· Provide a direct link between ELFT and Homerton pharmacy teams.
· Provide Education and Training to MDT and pharmacy team members
· Draw on a diverse range of knowledge in their decision-making to determine evidence-based therapeutic interventions, which will include psychological therapies and prescribing medication where legally allowed and actively monitoring the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions
· Plan and manage complete episodes of care, working in partnership with others, delegating and referring as appropriate to optimize health outcomes and resource use, and provide direct support to staff, patients and clients
· Work in partnership with patients and carers promoting a recovery focused model of care
· Provide input into policy and procedures affecting the use of pharmaceuticals at both local and trust wide levels under the direction of the Lead/Advanced Pharmacist.
· Ensure Parity of Esteem between physical and mental health and promote this agenda amongst the wider MDT
· Promote the trust Medicines Safety Agenda in collaboration with the Lead Pharmacist and Medicines Safety Officer, Please note the role is 37.5 hours and intended to be worked over 5 days, Monday to Friday, as specified in the job description.
Making Things Better
Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don't stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.
We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.
Our Community
We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and provide Forensic services to the whole of North East London. We provide services in urban and rural settings, sometimes in our inpatient units, but mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.
Aiming High
We were rated 'Outstanding' by the CQC in 2016, were proud to be rated 'Outstanding' again in 2018 and continue to be rate 'Outstanding' in 2021.. We were named in the HSJ's Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.
Staff and Service Users United
We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the Trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help to make ELFT the best place to work. This Trust is clinician-led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.
We especially welcome people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles in our population as we believe that this will equip staff to deliver a high standard of care to our service users and patients.
Diversity
ELFT Is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Having partnered and endorsed by organisations who are representative and experts in various areas of equality and diversity, we can ensure we are meeting the pre-set standards all the way from recruitment stage throughout the career journey of our employees by being accessible, having fair inclusive practices and a host of staff networks to support, nurture and celebrate our valued staff in the workplace.
Other reasons to apply
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern.
As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the Trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.

Are you an enthusiastic, motivated and committed pharmacist? If so we would like you to join our mental health pharmacy team!
You will need to have the skills to be able to work within the wider multi-disciplinary team of nurses and doctors and other allied healthcare professionals and managers. You will want to develop and improve the reliability and quality of our clinical pharmacy service. You will need to have specific experience working with pharmacy teams and patients within the mental health setting. You will want to reach targets set by the Trust and by the pharmacy service. You must be self- motivated and able to motivate others.

ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations., Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

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