Primary Care Network - Senior Clinical Pharmacist

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job description

Primary Care Network - Senior Clinical Pharmacist

The post holder will be employed by Greenwich Health, the GP Federation in Greenwich. Greenwich has 7 primary care networks (PCNS) with list sizes of between 30-80,000 patients. The Post holder will work for Valentine Health Partnership, part of Valentine Primary Care Network.

Your normal hours of work will be between 8.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. Monday to Saturday.

The postholder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role.

Main Responsibilities

1. Proactively manage patients with co-morbidities.
2. Provide support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries.
3. Support the repeat prescriptions system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care.
4. Provide leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement.
5. Manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.

About Us

Greenwich Health is the GP Federation for the Greenwich Borough and has a not-for-profit ethos. This means we reinvest all of our surplus into developing our staff, our organisation and to support our GP Practices in being sustainable for the future. We are committed to providing quality of care to our patients whilst building resilience for General Practice and providing services and programmes of work to deliver care at scale to the Greenwich Population.

Why Work for Greenwich Health?

• We are a local organisation owned by our local GP Practices.
• We offer competitive remuneration as well as other benefits including:
• Occupational sickness pay entitlement
• Counselling services
• Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Private Healthcare Membership - Benenden Healthcare
• We have a track record for developing individuals in their careers.
• Ongoing support and mentorship.
• High staff retention rates due to a supportive working culture.

Job Responsibilities

The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. Responsibilities include:

• Conducting patient-facing reviews and providing medicine support.
• Managing medicines in discharges from hospital.
• Running long-term conditions clinics.
• Being a center of medicines information for practice staff.
• Supporting and adhering to repeat prescribing processes.
• Supporting medicines safety and local/national guidelines.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience.

Experience

• Minimum 5 years post-qualification experience.
• In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
• An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices.

Professional Registration

• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
• Member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

Other

• Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences.
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
• Accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.