CLINICAL PHARMACIST in London

Wapping Group Practice offers an exciting opportunity for an experienced pharmacist to work within a well-established, friendly and innovative team. As a GP Practice Pharmacist, you will provide patient‐facing appointments, advice, treatment and administrative support within a general practice setting. Our clinical pharmacists work as part of the general practice team and are supported by a diverse, multi‐skilled professional team of clinical and non‐clinical staff, delivering high‐quality, person‐centred, holistic care to patients registered with the Wapping Group Practice. This is a permanent part‐time position from 8‐12 hours a week, working in a well‐established team. We are looking for a candidate who is enthusiastic, dedicated and can demonstrate the ability to give a friendly, caring and professional service to our 11,000 patients. Salary depends on experience – £40k‐52k.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will be a qualified pharmacist holding an independent prescribing qualification (desirable, not essential), acting within professional boundaries as part of a multidisciplinary team comprising GPs, ANPs, Physician Associates, Paramedics and First Contact Physios.
• You will receive continuous professional development through our clinicians, as well as focused training to develop your clinical skills.
• Your support network will include a clinical supervisor and an extended admin/management team. Additional training will be provided for any areas of identified development.
• Clinical progression, training cost support, full indemnity cover paid by the practice, onsite parking available.

About us

We are based at Wapping High Street, a 2‐minute walk from Wapping London Overground Station. We are a well‐respected, established training and teaching practice with a fully comprehensive team of doctors (9), nurses (2), pharmacists (4), HCA (2) and support staff (12). We use the EMIS Web clinical system, achieve over 95% QOF, and hold a CQC rating of Good. The surgery is forward‐thinking and constantly looks for options to increase patient care within the community. We are passionate about our patients and work closely with the PCN, utilising additional services to help avoid hospital visits. We highly value both our patients and our staff and can offer good CPD opportunities as experience increases.

Job responsibilities

• Provide leadership on person‐centred medicines optimisation, ensuring prescribers conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance, and contribute to quality and outcomes frameworks and enhanced services.
• Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medicines effectively, reduce waste and promote self‐care.
• Assume a leadership role in integrating general practice with wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to improve patient outcomes and manage general practice workload.
• Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across PCNs and the wider health and social care system.
• Take a central role in shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health), and anticoagulation, and be part of a professional clinical network with appropriate supervision.
• Conduct high‐risk drug monitoring, participate in audits set by CCG or borough‐wide aims, and run searches for local and national medication alerts/shortages.
• Work as part of a multi‐disciplinary team in a patient‐facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
• Manage care of patients with chronic diseases, undertaking clinical medication reviews to proactively manage complex polypharmacy, especially in the elderly, care‐home residents, those with multiple comorbidities (frailty, COPD, asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (via the STOMP Stop Over Medication Programme).
• Review the ongoing need for each medicine, its monitoring requirements, and recommend optimisations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs.
• Manage a caseload of patients with common, minor or self‐limiting ailments while working within scope of practice and limits of competence.
• Provide patient‐facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.
• Answer relevant medicine‐related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients.
• Review medicines associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews.
• Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy.
• Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision‐making.
• Support public health campaigns and provide specialist knowledge on public health programmes available to the general public.

Person Specification

• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Master's degree in pharmacy or equivalent.
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
• Minimum of 2 years post‐qualification experience.
• Experience in general practice.
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• In‐depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and an understanding of the principles of evidence‐based healthcare.