Mental health job campaign
Recruiting more pharmacists into the mental health sector is the aim of a new scheme running at Doncaster and South Humber Healthcare NHS Trust.
Funding (from the National Institute
of Mental Health in England) has
been secured to enable more than 30 pharmacists and students to gain
supervised hands-on work experience of mental health pharmacy, including
working one-to-one with a specialist senior psychiatry pharmacist.
Many pharmacists or pharmacy students have never had the chance to experience
working in the mental health field, explained Peter Pratt, chief pharmacist
at the trust. “This project gives us the opportunity to show pharmacists
and pharmacy students how interesting and rewarding it can be to work
in psychiatric practice. Overall we tend to find there is a national
shortage of pharmacists who choose to work in psychiatry or mental health,
so we have developed this taster session for pharmacists or pharmacy
students to experience working in this speciality.”
Pharmacists or students interested in applying for a placement should
telephone 01302 796226.
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Hospital Pharmacist