Prescribing Pharmacist PCN

Job summary

We are seeking to recruit motivated and enthusiastic prescribing clinical pharmacists to join our well-established and successful team of eleven pharmacists and two pharmacy technicians. This is an exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to build on their previous experience as they will be exposed to a wide range of conditions that are reflective of the local population.

You will work across our network providing dedicated support to general practice and our local population. The successful candidate will be well supported through clinical supervision arrangements and attend clinical pharmacy team meetings to facilitate shared learning and good practice. The post holder will be supported with development and learning needs including enrolment onto the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway, and other postgraduate qualifications. The successful candidate will work alongside other clinicians as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role.

We will be holding interviews on a regular basis during the month of June & July.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting role which will contribute to the reshaping of neighbourhood care for our populations, directed and supported by the South Southwark Primary Care Network (PCN). The post holder will hold a prescribing qualification and work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to

• support long-term condition management within the practice including medication reviews
• provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services
• provide support on prescription/medication queries and processes.
• facilitate better working with community and hospital pharmacy.

You will contribute to ongoing service developments, providing data and progress updates, and sharing insights into how the PCN could better support and care for its population.

The post holder would be expected to liaise with other healthcare professionals within the locality and secondary care. They will be expected to work within their clinical competence to provide pharmaceutical support to all our patients, improve patient care outcomes and support safe and effective prescribing.

About us

Our South Southwark PCN is made up of all GP Practices in four neighbourhoods - Camberwell, Peckham, Nunhead and Dulwich, serving approximately 150,000 patients, supported by their GP Federation, Improving Health (IHL).

The NHS Long Term Plan describes the prominent role Primary Care Networks play in delivering proactive, personalised and more integrated health and social care for their local populations. This will require collaborative working between organisations including GP practices, acute and community health, social care organisations and the voluntary and community sector.