South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist Mental Health Pharmacist for Urgent Care Services
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Senior Specialist Mental Health Pharmacist
The Pharmacy Department is seeking to recruit a Senior Specialist Mental Health Pharmacist to join our friendly, patient-centred team within the Mental Health Urgent Treatment Care Services.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated mental health pharmacist to join a dynamic and innovative team committed to delivering and advancing high-quality clinical pharmacy services across the Trust. The post holder will work closely with the Site Lead Pharmacist for Maudsley Hospital to support the development, implementation, and evaluation of Trust-wide quality improvement initiatives and specialist pharmacy services.
We are looking for an individual with a passion for mental health care, strong clinical expertise, and proven leadership skills. The role will focus on improving patient outcomes through effective medicines optimisation, enhancing communication across multidisciplinary teams, and supporting initiatives that help prevent avoidable hospital admissions related to both mental and physical health conditions.
The successful candidate will have excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to support and shape prescribing and medicines-related practice. They will be confident in collecting, analysing, and presenting data to inform service development, engage stakeholders, and contribute effectively to Trust meetings and service improvement discussions.
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Key Responsibilities
- Provide an expert pharmacy service to Mental Health Urgent Treatment Centre (MHUTC) and Place of Safety (POS).
- Provide a clinic for patients and carers to discuss medication.
- Work with the MDTs to ensure effective and appropriate medicines use.
- Improve physical health outcomes for mental health patients, for example by participating in physical health monitoring.
- Provide medicines-related training to staff on the wards and community teams, as necessary.
- Liaise with primary care, acute trusts, CMHTs, HTTs, and wards, as necessary.
- Implement medicines optimisation programme on the wards and teams.
- Undertake research and quality improvement projects.
- Prescribe medicines to service users within competence and agreed management plans.
- Record and analyse data for agreed outcome measures.
About South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM)
SLaM provide the widest range of NHS mental health services in the UK as well as substance misuse services for people who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. We work closely with the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN), King's College London and are part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre. There are very few organisations in the world that have such wide-ranging capabilities working with mental illness. Our scope is unique because it is built on three major foundations: care and treatment, science and research, and training.
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SLaM employ around 5000 staff and serve a local population of 1.1 million people. We have more than 230 services including inpatient wards, outpatient and community services. Currently, provide inpatient care for approximately 5,300 people each year and treat more than 45,000 patients in the community in Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark; as well as substance misuse services for residents of Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich.
By coming to work at SLaM, you will gain experience of being part of an organisation with a rich history and international reputation in mental health care. You will have access to professional development and learning opportunities, and have the chance to work alongside people who are world leaders in their field.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Oluwakemi Oduniyi
Job title: Principal Pharmacist
Email address: oluwakemi.oduniyi@slam.nhs.uk
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