Pharmacist in London

Job Summary An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit an experienced Clinical Pharmacist, qualified or willing to work towards an approved 18 month training pathway (CPPE) and independent prescribing course, to join our multi-disciplinary team working at Sidcup Medical Centre and Woodlands Surgery, Sidcup. If you are keen to work within primary care with a passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice, then we would like to hear from you. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team (MDT), the job holder will take a lead in driving forward the PCN vision of creating a new wider Community Service, enhancing existing and innovatively developing new care models in a collaborative way. This role plays a pivotal part in engaging groups of practices to come together and improve the quality of care and operational efficiencies across the local healthcare system, motivating passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice, whilst leading and tailoring the delivery of network priorities and targets with a practice based focus. Within their professional boundaries, support the development, promotion and implementation of high quality evidence based research that enables the cost effective use of medicines in a way that maximises the benefits of medicines to patients whilst minimises clinical, legal, or financial risks.
About Us The goals of BHNC are to work strategically with all Bexley Primary Care Networks (PCNs), to help secure the best services for patients whilst working together, to support the member practices in the challenges of a changing NHS. Bexley Health Neighbourhood Care (BHNC) aims to improve the morale of PCNs / general practice /UTCs in Bexley, by sharing expertise, services and supporting its workforce. BHNC will make a positive impact on medical services in Bexley, by working closely with the CCG, local NHS trusts, local providers and patient groups, to improve the delivery of healthcare to the local population.
Safeguarding Statement At Bexley Health Neighbourhood Care (BHNC), we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people, and vulnerable adults involved in our activities. Please see the full BHNC Safeguarding Statement attached to this advert.
Details Date posted: 08 January 2026
Pay scheme: Salary £48,000 – £51,000 dependent on experience
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full‐time
Reference number: B0027‐26‐0001
Job locations: Sidcup Medical Centre, 2 Church Avenue, Sidcup, Kent, DA14 6BU
Woodlands Surgery, 146 Halfway Street, Sidcup, Kent, DA15 8DF

Job Description – Responsibilities Clinical and Patient Client Care: Manage own case load of patients and deliver services where you are proud to put the patient first with common/minor/self‐limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence.
Provide patient‐facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice, especially for long‐term conditions and signpost to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate.
Provide follow‐up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes from suggestions and recommendations made, including virtual advice for patients with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines and answers relevant medicine‐related enquiries from GPs, other network staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines.
Using structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self‐care.
Liaise with BHNC colleagues including BHNC pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.
Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long‐term condition reviews etc.
Work in partnership with hospital colleagues to proactively manage patients at high risk of medicine‐related problems before they are discharged to ensure continuity of care. 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.
On every occasion, produce accurate, contemporaneous, and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies, standards, and procedures.
Financial & Resources: Be accountable for adhering to the budget, ensuring best value for money, and identifying efficiencies as appropriate, ensuring senior managers are aware of the cost implications of any areas of non‐compliance.
Manage resources required for key duties under this Job Description, ensuring value for money at all times and maintain budget management responsibility allocated to the job holder in line with the scheme of delegation, develop, where required, cost‐benefit analysis for spending and initiatives.
Actively work towards developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the PCN. To develop and facilitate a good working relationship with community pharmacists and other local providers of healthcare.
Liaise with colleagues including BHNC, STP/ICS Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians, Heads of Medicines Management/Optimisation to benefit from peer support on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.
Foster and maintain strong links with all services across the PCN and neighbouring networks.
Explore the potential for collaborative working and take opportunities to initiate and sustain such key working relationships with stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients.
Research & Development: Contribute towards the development and embedding of the BHNC and PCN visions, aims and business objectives. Provide advice to projects and business change initiatives regarding prescribing and make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement.
Reviews and monitors the on‐going need for each patient\’s medicine and supports them with their medicines ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation).
Supports public health campaigns, providing specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.
Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacist, nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
Reference patients to multidisciplinary case conferences, ensuring medicines optimisation at every opportunity.
Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high‐risk patient groups.
Be part of a professional clinical network, having access to appropriate clinical supervision: Each clinical pharmacist must receive a minimum of one supervision session per month by a senior clinical pharmacist; the senior clinical pharmacist must receive a minimum of one supervision session every three months by a GP clinical supervisor; each clinical pharmacist will have access to an assigned GP clinical supervisor for support and development; a ratio of one senior clinical pharmacist to no more than five junior clinical pharmacists, with appropriate peer support and supervision in place.
Policy & Service Development: Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components. Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy and manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates; make necessary changes as an independent prescriber, and ensure patients are booked in for necessary monitoring tests where required.
Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the relevant practice team and support the delivery of the prescribing safety quality improvement domain.
Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economy\’s RAG list for medicines and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs). Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on each practice\’s computer system.
Audit practice compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance and National Skills Framework (NSF).
Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.
Work with the general practice teams to ensure the practices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
Attend local, regional and national meetings of relevance some of which will be defined within the national GP pathway for this role supported by Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE).
Person Specification – Qualifications General Practice Pharmacist Training Pathway from CPPE, or equivalent qualification is already held or willing to work towards, and exemption is agreed by CPPE.
Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council, Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent qualification/experience.
Safeguarding and other mandatory training, Basic life support training.
Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and completed Independent prescriber course.
Person Specification – Experience Minimum of 2 years experience as a pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations.
Experience and an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long‐term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
An appreciation of the nature of GPs, practices and primary care prescribing concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
Person Specification – Other (Essential) Able to obtain and analyse complex technical data and information.
Able to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol.
Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer these where required for resolution.
Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.
Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiation, written and verbal communication skills.
Demonstrable ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients).
Able to appropriately build relationships to gain the cooperation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, other professionals).
Able to gain acceptance influence, motivate, persuade and engage audiences in agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers to overcome.
Person Specification – Other (Desirable) In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence‐based healthcare.
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.
UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer Details Employer name: Bexley Health Neighbourhood Care CIC
Address: Sidcup Medical Centre, 2 Church Avenue, Sidcup, Kent, DA14 6BU
Employer\’s website: https://www.bhnc.org.uk/

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