Community Transformation Lead Pharmacist

Job description Job responsibilities To provide leadership and management to the senior clinical pharmacists working in SLAM community mental health teams To provide an expert pharmacy service to SLAM community mental health team To work with the borough MDTs to ensure effective and appropriate medicines use To lead on patient-centred quality improvement projects targeted at preventing hospital admissions and improved care in the community To lead on patient-centred quality improvement projects targeted at improving physical health outcomes for community mental health patients To record interventions, outcomes and relevant data to evaluate and ensure services deliver on outcomes and provide value for money To liaise with primary care, acute trusts, HTTs and wards, as necessary. To provide a clinic for patients and carers to discuss medication. To implement medicines optimisation programme in the teams To provide medicines related training to staff in community teams, as necessary. To prescribe medicines to service users within competence and agreed management plan To record and analyse data for agreed outcome measures.