Advanced Pharmacist - Community Mental Health and Assertive Outreach

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities. 1. Identification of appropriate cohorts of patients for medication review including patients on complex medication regimes and possibly unsafe high-risk medication regimes.2. Support individual patients to reduce medicines associated risk and support structured deprescribing of any medicines that are no longer deemed necessary forindividual patients. 3. Undertake independent prescribing as appropriate for individual patients. 4. Participation in multidisciplinary team meetings or case conferences to identify medication problems and provide advice.5. Conducting medication education sessions for patients and carers, either on a one to-one or group basis.6. Interpreting medicines information to provide advice for individual circumstances.7. Giving prescribing advice to medical staff and non-medical prescribers especially when complex problems arise with medication combinations and doses.8. Advising on medicines risk management issues such as the reduction of medication incidents and ensuring compliance with medicines legislation.9. Giving medicines optimisation and management advice to medical, nursing and other staff, and medicines information to all members of staff.10. Undertaking teaching sessions on medication and related medication management issues for other professionals.