Clinical Pharmacist Solutions

Clinical Pharmacist - WOOD06

Clinical Pharmacist based in Woodford

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A great opportunity for a Clinical Pharmacist around Woodford, London to work in Primary Care.

We are looking for a Clinical Pharmacist to join a well-established, high-performing team of clinical pharmacists for a PCN in Woodford, London. The post holder will be a pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacists in general practice. In this role they will be supported by a senior clinical pharmacist who will develop, manage, and mentor them and by a GP who will provide clinical supervision as well as a line manager.

To provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement as well as managing aspects of medicines safety and antimicrobial stewardship.

To work as part of a multidisciplinary team in a patient facing role and take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.

The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff for prescription and medication queries. They will help support the repeat prescription system and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patient in the GP practice (s).

The post holder will ensure that the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload. The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice. The clinical pharmacist will organise practice-based meetings with local community pharmacists to improve collaborative working and explore how to best support patients to access and get the best from their medicines.

The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber.

Must be registered as a Pharmacist with the GPhC.
IP is not mandatory but would be ideal.

📍 Location: Woodford, London
🗒 Contract: Fixed Term - Maternity Cover
💷 Salary: £46,000 - £53,000 (depending on experience)
⏰ Hours: Full-time 37.5/hours per week
✅ Benefits: 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, support with career progression and 10 days paid sick leave.

Main Duties and Areas of Responsibility

Medication review for older people with frailty	Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients (including patients in care homes) and produce recommendations for the GP on prescribing and monitoring.
Management of medicines at discharge from hospital	To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.
To support the care closer to home integrated networks	Set up and manage systems to identify and support high-risk groups of patients (e.g., those on 4+ medicines or unplanned admissions). Provide advice on medicines optimisation and develop personalised care plans.
Long-term condition clinics, e.g., diabetes	See patients with single medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g., COPD, asthma). Make recommendations to GPs for medicine improvements.
Clinical advice and expertise on medicines to practice staff, multidisciplinary teams, and patients	Answers all medicine--related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff and patients with queries about medicines. Signposting to community pharmacy for management of minor illness, medicines use reviews, new medicines service and other locally commissioned service. Referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals, where appropriate.
Training & supervision	Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics, medicines optimisation, consultation skills and motivational interviewing. Support networks for the clinical pharmacists in the local health economy: community pharmacists; hospital and ICB prescribing advisers. To support the RPS Faculty development for clinical pharmacists.
Medicines safety	Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance. Undertake simple audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.
Antibiotic Stewardship	Promotion of evidence-based practice and interventions to prevent the development of infections to practice.

As an equal opportunities employer, Clinical Pharmacist Solutions Ltd will promote equality with due regard to the protected characteristics of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

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