Primary Care Network Senior Clinical Pharmacist

The post holder will be employed by Greenwich Health, the GP Federation. The post holder will work with Riverview Health PCN, a grouping of 5 practices. Riverview has a team of clinical pharmacists working to deliver practice support but also PCN level work which means the individual pharmacists are part of a wider team. The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role.

Proactively manage patients with co-morbidities. Provide support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. Support the repeat prescriptions system, deal with acute prescription requests, 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 patients in the GP practices. Provide leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.

Main duties of the job include:

• Hold patient facing reviews and provide medicine support
• Manage medicines in discharges from hospital
• Hold long-term conditions clinics
• Be a centre of medicines information for practice staff
• Support and adhere to repeat prescribing processes
• Support medicines safety and local/national guidelines

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.

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. Through our partnerships in our local healthcare environment, we can develop shared posts for example, with the hospital trust and our GP practices. You will have ongoing support and mentorship. We have developed a working culture which harnesses openness and togetherness which has resulted in high staff retention rates.

The post holder is expected to adhere to organisation policies and procedures and relevant legislation including the requirements of any professional bodies. Maintain satisfactory personal performances and professional standards and to achieve agreed objectives for their role. Attend mandatory training as identified by the organisation. Participate in a Performance Appraisal Scheme and contribute to their own development and the development of any staff they are responsible for appraising.

The post holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety Policy, to include: Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines, identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.

The post holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include: Acting in a way that recognises the importance of people's rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies, and current legislation.

The post holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the PCN as part of this employment, such training to include: Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.

The post holder will strive to maintain quality within the PCN, and will alert other team members to issues of quality and risk. Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision. Work effectively with individuals in other agencies.

In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy, act appropriately and in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

The post holder will undertake clinical medication reviews with patients with multimorbidity and poly-pharmacy and implement own prescribing changes (as an independent prescriber) and order relevant monitoring tests. Provide patient-facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.

The post holder will manage their own case load and run long-term condition clinics where responsible for prescribing as an independent prescriber (if suitably qualified). Review the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines.

The post holder will produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy. 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.

Qualifications required include specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience, with a minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience. The post holder must have registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council and membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.