South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Community Mental Health Teams
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Opportunity to Join Clinical Pharmacy Team at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
An opportunity has arisen to join the clinical pharmacy team at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, working primarily with the Lewisham Community Mental Health Teams.
Role Overview
Pharmacy is an integral part of Lewisham’s developing community mental health services, and this Band 7 role offers the opportunity to work directly with service users and multidisciplinary teams to improve medicines use, continuity of care and outcomes closer to home.
Key Responsibilities
- Patient-Facing Consultations: You will be a key clinical pharmacy contact for allocated community mental health teams, providing patient-facing consultations, specialist advice on psychotropic medicines and practical support to improve monitoring, adherence and shared decision-making.
- Collaboration Across Services: You will work across organisational boundaries with primary care, community pharmacies, acute hospitals, inpatient wards and crisis services.
- Medication Management: Your work will include reviewing complex medication regimens; advising on the initiation, adjustment and discontinuation of medicines; undertaking consultations with service users and carers; supporting the monitoring of high-risk psychotropic medicines and physical health; and addressing practical problems that may prevent people from gaining the best outcomes from treatment.
- Safe Transfers of Care: You will support safe transfers of care between community teams, primary care, community pharmacies, acute hospitals, inpatient wards and crisis services.
- Contribution to Safety and Training: You will also contribute to medicines safety, staff training, audit, quality improvement and the collection of meaningful patient and service outcome data.
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Qualifications and Experience
We are looking for a pharmacist with relevant mental health experience, sound clinical judgement and the confidence to manage an autonomous workload while contributing to a multidisciplinary team. Experience of primary care or community mental health services is desirable, but a clear commitment to developing in this area is essential.
Development and Support
- Professional Supervision: You will join a supportive Lewisham pharmacy team, receive regular professional supervision and have access to development opportunities in mental health pharmacy, independent prescribing, quality improvement, teaching and research.
- Independent Prescribing: If you are qualified as an independent prescriber, you will prescribe within your competence and agreed management plans.
- Travel and Services: The post includes regular travel between the Ladywell Unit and community team bases across Lewisham. You may also contribute to inpatient or dispensary services and participate in the pharmacy on-call, late-duty, weekend or bank-holiday services where applicable.
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About South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust provides a wide range of local and specialist mental health services. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King’s College London and are part of King’s Health Partners.
Our pharmacy department provides clinical and dispensing services across inpatient and community settings. The department has nationally and internationally recognised expertise in psychotropic medicines, specialist medicines information, education, research and clinical trials, and contributes to the Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry. We are the world's leading pharmacy centre for research in psychiatry, having published over 300 clinical papers in the past 25 years.
Location
You will join the Lewisham pharmacy team, based at the Ladywell Unit on the University Hospital Lewisham site, and work with community mental health teams across the borough. The team supports a diverse local population and works closely with inpatient, crisis, primary care, community pharmacy and acute hospital services.
The Ladywell Unit is close to Lewisham town centre and has good rail and bus connections.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Ian Osborne
- Job Title: Principal Pharmacist
- Email Address: ian.osborne@slam.nhs.uk
- Telephone Number: 02032286063
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