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Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Community Teams (Durham and Darlington

Employer
Tees, Esk and Wear Val
Location
Durham and Darlington Locality, Durham/ Darlington
Salary
Competitive salary
Closing date
15 Dec 2021

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We are one of the largest specialist mental health and learning disabilities trusts in the country, with an annual income of £320m and a workforce of some 6,700 staff operating from around 100 sites in Durham, Teesside, North Yorkshire and York and Selby. We provide a range inpatient and community services to 2m people living in County Durham, the Tees Valley, Scarborough, Whitby, Ryedale, Harrogate, Hambleton and Richmondshire. We also provide additional specialist services to other parts of Northern England.

We deliver our services by working in partnership with eight local authorities and clinical commissioning groups, a wide range of voluntary organisations, as well as service users, their carers and the public. The services are spread over a wide geographical area of around 3,600 square miles, which includes coastal, rural and industrial areas.

We are a multi-award winning trust and are included within the Health Service Journal's Best 100 Places to Work. The trust take a positive and proactive approach to support staff in their personal development and has embedded the Talent Management approach within the Trust, with the vision of helping people to be as good as they can be, helping TEWV to do things better.

We are looking for an experienced pharmacist to join our community services in our County Durham and Darlington locality. These are exciting times in Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHSFT as we expand our Medicines Optimisation services into our community teams across the organisation. We have just received funding for the 1st phase and are recruiting an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist and Senior Pharmacy Technician into each of our localities in Teesside, North Yorkshire and York and County Durham and Darlington, with further posts expected to follow.

If you are a pharmacist experienced in or interested in mental health one of these could be the post for you, as we transform our medicines related services for our community patients. These will be very patient focused roles, in the first instance with an emphasis on improving the processes to reduce any risks with medicines and enhance the patient experience especially at interfaces of care; aswell as ongoing monitoring and supply of medication. Whilst based in the community there will be clear links for this post to our inpatient and dispensary teams based Darlington; plus inpatient pharmacy teams based in Durham, aswell as to the wider Pharmacy Leadership Team.

We are looking for experienced, enthusiastic and motivated individuals who are passionate about improving patient care to join our pharmacy team. The successful applicant will share our vision and be committed to our values and goals for the delivery of the best care to our patients. You must have current registration with The General Pharmaceutical Council, have a clinical diploma and ideally have substantial clinical pharmacy experience gained in secondary and / or primary care. We are committed to developing our staff and there will be an opportunity to undertake the Post Graduate Certificate in Psychiatric Therapeutics, Non-Medical Prescribing certificate (if you are not already a prescriber); as well as developing your leadership knowledge and skills. The Trust is committed to Quality Improvement Systems and there will be opportunities to develop your skills using these tools.

We have one 0.6 WTE pharmacist post. We deliver services to working-age adults, the elderly, children and young people, those with learning disabilities and forensic services. We envisage the role will become embedded within community teams delivering medicines management services for their patients and supporting the repeat prescription of medicine under shared care arrangements, working alongside a senior pharmacy technician and other healthcare professionals. Previous mental health experience is not essential as training will be provided.

Due to the nature of the role it is essential that applicants are able to travel independently across the locality and have access to a suitable vehicle for business purposes. If necessary, adjustments can be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010.

A lease car scheme is in operation.

The ability to work flexibly and manage your own workload is essential. You will be assigned a pharmacy team base in the vicinity of the community team(s) you are working with. The team bases are Lanchester Road - Durham, West Park Hospital - Darlington.

If you are interested in this role we would strongly recommend that you contact the following to discuss the posts.

For further details / informal visits contact:

Laura Smith - Locality Lead Pharmacist - Durham & Darlington

[email protected]

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If you are considering applying for any vacancy with Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust (TEWV) please ensure you are comfortable being fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Unless you are informed in writing that your post does not require full vaccination, it is likely that it will be a condition of your employment that you are and remain fully vaccinated for COVID-19 unless you have medical exemption. Your commitment will help us to put the safety and care of our patients first, as well as helping us to protect you and your colleagues.

TWWV operates a no smoking policy which ensures all buildings and grounds are smoke free.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from individuals who have experience of mental ill health or learning disabilities. Our service users and carers tell us our staff should be consistently concerned with maintaining and improving care with pride, empathy and compassion.

This job advert may close as soon as sufficient suitable applications have been received. If interested please apply for this post as soon as possible

Your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages via the NHS Jobs website and therefore, as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. By applying for this post you are agreeing to Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information within this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the NHS Electronic Staff Records system

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order (as amended) and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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