Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 59,000

Job description

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Site: Finchley Memorial Hospital
Town: London
Salary: £51,883 - £58,544 Per Annum, inclusive of HCAS (pro rata for part time)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 21/04/2025 23:59

Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.

We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for dynamic, motivated and innovative pharmacists to join our expanding Medicines Management team at Central London Community Healthcare Trust.

We are looking for part time and full time pharmacists to provide a clinical pharmacy service to our inpatients in our Rehabilitation Service across the Trust.

CLCH is one of the largest Community Health Trusts in England and provides services across 11 CCGs to more than two million people across ten London boroughs and Hertfordshire. We are part of 4 Integrated Care Boards (ICBs). With the aim of shifting health care from acute hospitals to settings closer to people’s homes, and moving away from reactive care to preventative care based on early interventions.

Main duties of the job

As an integral member of the team, you will be providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst supporting to address both public health and social care needs of patients. You will be involved in conducting structured medication reviews for patients with polypharmacy, long term conditions or high risk patients ensuring an integrated approach to the management of medicines.

If you are successful you will join the existing team of Band 7 pharmacists at the Trust covering a range of rehabilitation specialties. You will be supported by experienced Senior Clinical Pharmacists allowing you to gain new skills in each rotation and the ideal opportunity to develop strategic, quality improvement and leadership skills.

The post holder may be required to travel across the different sites within the Trust where we have Bedded Services inpatients so will require some flexibility.

Working for our organisation

Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!

We can offer you:

• A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role.
• Car lease scheme *T&Cs apply.
• Flexible working options.
• Training, support and development in your career.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide and develop a high-quality specialist Clinical Pharmacy Service across a range of inpatient settings in the Community Hospitals (Rehabilitation Units, Interim Care Beds, Palliative Care, Discharge to Assess ward) covered by the Bedded Services team supported by the Lead Bedded Services Pharmacist.

To provide support and guidance to Medicine Management Pharmacy Technicians.

To be responsible for individualised patient pharmaceutical care ensuring clinical prioritisation on a day to day basis at ward level.

To provide a patient focused pharmacy service to patients and staff including medicines reconciliation and full clinical screening of prescriptions to ensure safe and cost-effective use of evidence based and rational use of medicines, in line with local policies and national guidance ensuring medicines are optimised and risks to patients are minimized e.g. NICE, NHSE/I, PHE.

Facilitate changes to the patients’ own use of medicines to improve safety, adherence and empower as much independent use of medicines as possible and appropriate.

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities.

Person specification

Education/Qualification

• Vocational Masters Degree in Pharmacy.
• Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Postgraduate Clinical Pharmacy Certificate qualification or equivalent.
• Postgraduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma qualification or equivalent.
• Independent prescriber.

Experience

• Hospital experience.
• Experience of providing a Clinical Pharmacy Service with good medicines management initiatives.
• Evidence of basic teaching and tutoring in a hospital setting.
• Experience of structured medication review.
• Experience of working effectively within multi-disciplinary groups.
• Primary and Community Health experience.
• Experience of audit techniques.
• Experience of training.
• Experience of project / change management.

Skills & Knowledge

• Understanding of the NHS and political environment.
• Sound knowledge of prescribing, pharmacy and medicines management issues.
• Sound knowledge of Medicines Reconciliation on admission and discharge and Medicines Management processes.
• Good core therapeutic knowledge.
• Excellent communicator – both verbal and written.
• To manage own time and prioritise workload effectively.
• Computer literate – working knowledge of office applications, internet, email and electronic diary systems and advanced spreadsheet skills.
• Adaptability and flexibility in approach to meet service needs.
• Well organized.
• Ability to think clearly and work under pressure.
• Self-motivated with an enthusiastic approach to work.
• Knowledge of interface issues.
• Effective negotiation skills and ability to persuade others.
• To be organised, manage own time and prioritise workload effectively.

Key Attributes

• Health cleared by Occupational Health for the role specified.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:

Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)
Race Equality Network
Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.

Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.