East Merton PCN Clinical Pharmacist | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 02 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £56,388 - £62,785 PA inc HCAS (pro rata) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 02 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, SW1E 6QP |
| Company: | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6194482/824-CORP-2998 |
Summary
Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust are working in collaboration with East Merton PCN to offer an exciting opportunity for maternity cover for a clinical pharmacist within an established team. They will work alongside our existing CLCH pharmacy team in delivering the pharmacy PCN service.
Key components of the post include: Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines, conducting structured medication reviews for patients with inappropriate polypharmacy and overprescribing, developing and implementing long term condition prescribing clinics and acting as a source of pharmaceutical expertise to various health and social care professionals e.g. GPs, district nurses, carers, families, community pharmacists and care coordinators.
The pharmacist will also provide leadership on streamlining services e.g medicines audits, policies, training from the GP practice level across the PCN to support collaborative working and address unwarranted variation.
Trust wide Medicines Management Service Provision including policy development, implementation of patient safety initiatives e.g. drug alerts, patient safety alerts, training for health professionals in the community across the trust and PCN.
The post will be working in GP practices within East Merton PCN and will involve lone-working and travelling between sites.
The postholder must have relevant post registration experience in hospital pharmacy, community pharmacy or GP practices and a postgraduate qualification to at least diploma level or working towards or completed the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway as well as independent prescribing qualification or currently working towards completion of this. A sound knowledge of prescribing and medicines management issues faced in primary care is essential with excellent decision-making and problem solving skills. In addition a wide exposure to and well-rounded knowledge of various clinical conditions and their management. Additionally, compassion, flexibility, excellent communication and time management skills are essential and the ability to build relationships with various health and social care professionals e.g. GPs, district nurses, carers, family, community pharmacists and care coordinators.
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&C’s apply
• Flexible working options
• Annual travel card loan
• Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here:https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
• To provide clinical pharmacist support to East Merton PCN within Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (CLCH).
• To provide pharmaceutical support to health care professionals (HCPs) and patients within the PCN.
• To conduct face-to -face or remote structured medication reviews for patients in the clinic, practice setting, patient’s homes, care homes, bedded unit.
• Support long term chronic disease management through polypharmacy review or specialist medicines optimisation prescribing clinics based on needs of local population.
• Utilise clinical tools to proactively identify patients for structured medication reviews e.g. frail, recent discharge, history of fall
• Support achievement of national and local incentives.
• To respond to patient medication queries regarding correct use of medications, side effects or other medication-related issues involving repeat prescriptions.
• Support cost effective, evidence-based prescribing in line with local and national guidelines.
• Support and improve prescribing and medication-related processes at a practice level.
• Work to reduce risk of medication incidents through review of local processes and systems around medicines management, supporting high-risk drug monitoring and improving prescribing safety.
• To build relationships with key stakeholders within the PCN, Integrated Care System (ICS) and CLCH
• To ensure patients are supported to get the best out of their medicines in liaison with the person’s GP, hospital clinicians, district nurses, carers, family, community pharmacists and care coordinators to ensure a multidisciplinary and integrated approach to medicines management, with a view to ensuring continuity of pharmaceutical care for patients in different healthcare settings.
• To provide professional support and compose patient agreed medication care plans and communicate these with other health and social care professionals e.g. Community Pharmacists.
• Contribute to agreed meetings within and outside the organisation and represent pharmacy as appropriate.
• Respond to unpredictable work patterns and urgent requests for help by phone or email within a reasonable time frame.
• Plan and coordinate projects, quality improvements programmes or audits within the Pharmacy Primary Care Networks team
• Collect appropriate quantifiable data to evaluate the service and identify areas for improvement and development
Please refer to the attached Job Description for full list of responsibilities
This advert closes on Tuesday 16 Apr 2024