# Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - ADHD

**Company**: NELFT North East London Foundation Trust
**Location**: Ilford
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £57528.00 to £64750.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced clinical pharmacist to join NELFT's developing Adult ADHD Service as an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist.

Working as a senior and autonomous member of the multidisciplinary team, the post holder will provide expert pharmaceutical care throughout the adult ADHD pathway. This will include delivering non-medical prescribing clinics, supporting titration and annual medication reviews, optimising treatment and advising colleagues on the safe, effective and evidence-based use of medicines.

The post holder will also play an important role in developing the service, strengthening medicines governance and supporting shared-care arrangements across North East London. Through clinical leadership, education, audit and quality improvement, they will help us deliver a safe, accessible and patient-centred ADHD pathway that improves outcomes and reduces health inequalities.

**Main duties of the job**

- Deliver patient-centred Adult ADHD clinics as a non-medical prescriber, working within professional competence and the agreed clinical pathway.

- Assess, initiate, titrate and review ADHD medication, including annual reviews and transitions to shared care where appropriate.

- Undertake clinical risk assessments and contribute pharmaceutical expertise to complex case discussions and multidisciplinary team meetings.

- Provide expert advice on psychopharmacology and the safe, evidence-based and cost-effective use of ADHD medicines.

- Support the development and implementation of prescribing guidelines, clinical protocols, standard operating procedures and pharmaceutical care pathways.

- Contribute to medicines governance, clinical audit, service evaluation, research and quality improvement.

- Work collaboratively with primary care, pharmacy colleagues, commissioners and other internal and external partners to support joined-up care.

- Promote shared decision-making, provide clear medicines information and help service users achieve the best possible treatment outcomes.

- Deliver education and training to multidisciplinary and primary care colleagues.

- Provide clinical supervision, mentoring and, where required, line management to junior or trainee pharmacy staff.

- Support service development, co-production and initiatives that address unwarranted variation and health inequalities.

- Maintain accurate clinical and prescribing records in accordance with Trust policies.

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary: £57,528 to £64,750 per annum

- High Cost Area Supplement (HCAS) of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,714 to a maximum of £5,941 p.a. pro rata for part time)

- Award-winning equality and diversity initiatives

- Staff health and wellbeing activities

- Investment in your development

- Level 3 Disability Confident Leader

- Recognised in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years

- Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation

## Skills

### Required
- clinical pharmacology
- ADHD treatment
- non-medical prescribing
- psychopharmacology
- medication management

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