Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Technician

All references should be directed through the Employers HR Department wherever possible to comply with NHS Check Standards. Please ensure that a HR address/email is provided for each referee named. Job overview Are you a pharmacist interested in making a difference to those living with serious mental illness and learning disability in Leeds?If yes, then this could be a great opportunity for you!Working for Leeds & York Partnership Foundation Trust you will provide strategic direction and leadership to the pharmacy team ensuring the medicine related needs of service users living in the community with complex mental health and learning disabilities are met.Working as part of a supportive senior pharmacy team, you will use their expertise and drive, to lead, deliver and develop the LYPFT pharmacy services provided to community mental health and learning disability services users, and the primary and secondary care teams that support them.You will be expected to lead, develop and support an established team providing an environment which allows individuals to flourish. Main duties of the job If you are a pharmacist with a passion for improving the lives of those with serious mental illness and learning disability in Leeds and, you have a track record of successfully leading teams to develop services – then this is the job for you!The post is full time; flexible working/hybrid working, and job share requests will be considered. We welcome all phone calls to discuss this great opportunity.Mark Payne – Lead Pharmacist - Jane Riley- Chief Pharmacist – Working for our organisation The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank. Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa. Detailed job description and main responsibilities You will provide strategic direction, leadership and a strong clear vision to the pharmacy team and overall service, ensuring the medicine related needs of our service users living in the community with complex mental health and learning disabilities are met. You will provide highly specialist advice on pharmaceutical matters, undertaking medicines-related risk / clinical management and ensuring compliance with Trust procedures, national guidelines and legislation to provision of care to individual service users, carers and services at a Trust wide and regional level.You will lead on the development and implementation of governance processes to provide assurance around the safe transfer of medicines related care as well as supporting highly specialist care teams to ensure they have appropriate medicines governance processes in place.Through forging positive relationships, you will encourage innovation and implementation of partnership and collaborative working with other services to support the medicine optimisation agenda across Leeds and ensure mental health pharmacy services continue to meet the needs of the Leeds population it serves.As a member of the Senior Pharmacy Team help develop a strategic vision and delivery plan for the pharmacy service and take a lead role in supporting the team to implement this through the provision of managerial/professional support, direction and advice . Person specification Qualifications Essential criteria Member of the General Pharmaceutical CouncilPost Graduate level qualification in clinical pharmacy practiceQualification in management/ leadership or equivalent experience in senior leadership role Experience Essential criteria Experience of developing and leading teams and services and subsequent systems, processes and reporting structures. Skills Essential criteria Good communication and engaging skills and demonstration of effectively liaising with other agencies/stakeholder