Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Community Mental Health Teams

To provide an expert pharmacy service to SLAM community mental health teams and home treatment teams To have medicines related consultations with patients and carers; involve patients in treatment decisions; improve patient and carer satisfaction with information they receive about medicines To improve physical health outcomes for community mental health patients, for example by participating in vaccination programmes, physical health clinics and physical health monitoring programmes To support the community teams to use medicines safely and effectively and reduce medicines wastage To implement medicines optimisation and quality improvement programmes in the teams To provide medicines related training to community mental health team staff and other members of the pharmacy team To prescribe medicines to service users within competence and agreed management plans To participate in the inpatient or dispensary service on a rotational basis where required to by the site lead pharmacist