PCN Clinical Pharmacist

Job summary

GP Direct, part of Sphere Primary Care Network (PCN), is seeking an accomplished and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist to join our friendly, forward-thinking, well established practice and PCN.

The PCN Clinical Pharmacist will play a key role in supporting with the delivery of patient services for patients presenting with new onset or long-term health needs.

The role will require completion of the CPPE pathway.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the Clinical Pharmacist role will include:

• Consult patients in respect of their health needs, for both acute presentations and ongoing issues
• Undertake physical health monitoring & health promotion
• Undertake prescribing in line with NICE guidelines and local incentive schemes
• Reduce inappropriate polypharmacy, side effect monitoring & reduce inappropriate antipsychotic prescribing in e.g. dementia
• Provide specialist advise on medicines
• Provide training to the wider clinical and non-clinical team within your scope of practice
• Support with safety and prescribing audits
• Support the upskilling of PCN and practice pharmacy team to increase their confidence and skills managing medicines in your area of expertise

About us

GP Direct serves the largest patient population in Harrow through a team of over 80 people. Our main site is a modern state-of-the-art GP surgery which boasts 13 clinical rooms, an impressive conference room, spacious staff room, a dedicated call centre, admin office and a very large welcoming waiting room/reception area. Our branch site is a small yet modern practice located just 5mins drive from our main site.

• 27,000 patients over 2 sites
• 7 GP Partners, 11 Salaried GPs
• CQC rating of Good
• Training practice
• 6 clinical pharmacists
• WTE First Contact Physiotherapist
• WTE Enhanced Practice Nurse delivering care in the community
• Supportive well established nursing/HCA and admin team
• In-house phlebotomy service
• EMIS Web clinical software (several advanced users) and extensive use of technology in delivering care
• Good local reputation and positive online patient reviews
• GP Direct is part of Sphere PCN (six local practices serving a population of almost 70,000 patients)