Clinical Pharmacist in London

Passionate about contributing to DMCs service development across our primary care team and more widely across the organisation, enabling you to be involved in the decisions that affect our care delivery. We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated pharmacists to join our team and develop our services. You should be a keen learner, passionate about your clinical development and able to communicate well at all levels.

Main duties of the job:

• Your role is of paramount importance in providing expert pharmaceutical care to achieve clinical excellence and improved patient outcomes.
• In collaboration with a team of healthcare professionals, your primary responsibility is to ensure the safe and effective use of medications.
• 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.
• Provide leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement.
• Partake in clinical triage and management of the GP practices appointment book.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise:

• Develop and manage a medicines management plan and deliver patient services as determined by practice policy and local and national guidance.
• Develop and manage the medicines management team, including delivery of training.
• Attend allocated site visits punctually to meet contractual obligations.
• Perform audits, including prescription chart screening for clinical appropriateness.
• Communicate effectively with patients, their families, and all relevant staff.
• Undertake medicines management audits on-site to ensure regulatory requirements are met.
• Work with multiple tools and software provided by the ICB and optimise digital utilisation.
• Provide clinical training seminars to Health Care Professionals.
• Maintain registration, as a pharmacist, with the General Pharmaceutical Council, and act in accordance with the code of ethics.

Essential skills:

• Masters degree in pharmacy, MPharm, B.Sc. or BPharm or equivalent at time of qualification.
• GPhC Registered.
• Independent Prescriber.
• Knowledge of General Pharmaceutical Council Codes of Professional Conduct, Ethics and Performance and their implications for practice.
• Ability to work on own initiative, plan and manage time.
• Excellent attention to detail, including proof reading skills.
• Commitment to learn and develop clinical knowledge.
• Previous experience working in General Practice.
• Experience navigating and working on Emis web.
• Basic IT skills in Microsoft programmes e.g., Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Aspiration to achieve clinical excellence.

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.