Band 7 Clinical Pharmacist (Part time) in London

Accountable to: Band 8b Lead Senior Clinical Pharmacist

Responsible to: 8b Lead Senior Clinical Pharmacist

27 days per annum, increasing to 29 days after 5 years NHS service and 33 days after 10 years NHS service.

Main duties of the job:

• The post holder is 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.
• 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.

About us:

Haringey GP Federation is a dynamic and growing organisation working in partnership with GP practices across the diverse borough of Haringey, north London. Formed in 2016 by local GPs, we now work alongside over 30 practices within seven Primary Care Networks to help deliver high-quality, accessible healthcare to our local communities.

Our role is to support and enable general practice by developing and delivering services that complement core GP work, creating opportunities for shared learning and innovation, and helping practices respond to the evolving needs of patients and the wider health system. We work in close partnership with practices, clinicians and system partners to co-design services, pilot new approaches, and build capacity across primary care. Through clinical programmes, workforce development and operational support, our aim is to add value in ways that are practical, respectful and aligned with the priorities of our member practices. We're proud of the strong relationships we've built across the health and care system grounded in mutual respect, shared goals, and a commitment to delivering excellent care together.

Job responsibilities:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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 CCG prescribing advisers.
• To support the RPS Faculty development for clinical pharmacists.
• Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

Person Specification:

Qualifications:

• Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent.
• Post-graduate clinical diploma level or equivalent training/experience or Independent prescriber.

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.
• Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long-term conditions.

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.