Junior Pharmacist | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust

During your journey and development within KMPT, you will work closely with multidisciplinary teams and the key aspects of this clinical post will include attending ward rounds, patient education and counselling, clinical audit and medicines information. You must be able to show compassion and respect for people with mental health problems and be driven to improve their care through medicines management.,

• The development from a band 6 junior pharmacist to a band 7 specialist pharmacist through formal learning and work experience.


• To help with the provision of a comprehensive clinical pharmacy and medicines management service to the mental health unit, including ward pharmacy visits, multidisciplinary team meetings, consultant reviews in an inpatient setting.


• To support patients and their families by providing advice about the use of medication, optimising treatment, providing information and liaising with acute and other care providers to ensure seamless transfer of care.


• To contribute to good physical health wellbeing of patients by providing expert advice and performing interventions to improve physical health


There may be the need to travel to other sites across the Trust therefore a full driving licence and access to a car is desirable.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated pharmacist to join our team with theopportunity to progress to a Band 7 Mental Health Pharmacistthrough individually-tailored developmental support., Disability Confident
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• Annual leave allowance starting at 27 days per year (when working full time) + Bank Holiday's.


• Access to the fantastic NHS pension scheme.


• Eligibility for the Blue Light Card (discount service for the NHS, providing members with thousands of amazing discounts online and on the high street).


This role does not require mental health experience and the expectation would be for the candidate to learn and build their experience on the job through formal learning and work-based practice. On-going training and support will be provided by the Lead Education and Training Pharmacist and the local clinical pharmacy team with clinical supervision being provided by one of our experienced Senior Clinical Pharmacists. Further support will be available from the Trust wide pharmacy team if required.

The post holder will be part of a clinical pharmacy team that provides a medicines management service to the inpatient wards. You will also be involved in working with the other pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in undertaking and developing audits and projects to evaluate and improve services alongside pharmacy and trust priorities and objectives. Further details of the role are outlined in the 'detailed job description and main responsibilities' section.

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people across the county.

The Trust (rated Good overall by the CQC and Outstanding for care) has 3,283 staff working in 66 buildings across 33 locations, covering an area of 1,450 square miles.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.