Battersea Primary Care Network

Senior Clinical Pharmacist

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Job summary

Battersea PCN Ltd.is looking for an enthusiastic, experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our expanding pharmacy team. This is an opportunity to be involved in developing new ways of working in primary care with our friendly, forward-thinking practices. Battersea is a fantastic place to work with its diverse, varied population, proximity to central London and beautiful open spaces such as Battersea Park and Clapham Common.

The successful candidate(s) will have excellent clinical, management and communication skills. You will be able to work flexibly and independently between our practices. You will be a strong team player and will play a part in the further development of our pharmacy team over coming years. You will be an independent prescriber or working towards this qualification. You will enjoy clinical, patient-facing work as well as being involved in developing new pharmacist-led pathways for chronic disease management and quality prescribing.

Main duties of the job

The role will be varied and include:

  • Patient-facing work: Chronic disease and structured medication reviews, medication queries, proactively managing patients with complex polypharmacy
  • Supporting safe prescribing:
  • Medicines optimisation, prescribing audits, QOF
  • Developing practice prescribing and chronic disease protocols and training practice staff
  • Providing expert clinical medicines advice to practice teams

About us

Battersea PCN comprises of 5 GP surgeries in a compact area of North Battersea (Bridge Lane Group Practice, Lavender Hill Group Practice, Battersea Fields Practice, Queenstown Road Medical Practice, Battersea Rise Group Practice) with a combined population ofapproximately 57,000 patients.

We enjoy excellent collaborative working relationships and we are excited about expanding our PCN Pharmacy team to improve health care services for our patients and to support our clinical and administrative staff.

Our practices are high-achieving and innovative and have a strong ethos of teaching and training. We will offer mentoring and educational support from our lead pharmacist, prescribing GP leads, practice managers, ICB pharmacists and additional peer support systems being developed in Wandsworth.

Details

Date posted

06 November 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

M0074-24-0002

Job locations

3 Austin Road

Battersea

London

Wandsworth

SW11 5JP


Job description

Job responsibilities

Key responsibilities:

Provide pharmaceutical input to areas of chronic disease management within the practices and develop pharmacist-led patient care pathways

Undertake chronic disease reviews

Undertake structured medication reviews to manage patients with complex polypharmacy , especially older people, housebound patients, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities

Provide expert clinical medicines advice for the practice teams, giving support with prescription and medication queries

Help support the repeat prescriptions system including providing training for administrative and reception staff and reviewing and implementing repeat prescribing policies

Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all prescribers in the practices

Provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation, safe prescribing and quality improvement, identifying national and local prescribing guidance that affects patient safety requiring implementation - including MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and new research evidence

Manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services

Medicines reconciliation on hospital discharge and transfer of care

Support improvements in clinical care through practice-based audits and implementing change.

Liaise with community and hospital pharmacy services to help provide streamlined care, improve patient outcomes, and help manage workload, and liaise directly with hospital colleagues where prescribing needs to be returned to specialists.

Respond to patient queries, questions, and concerns regarding medications - face to face and/or telephone contact

Contribute to the recruitment, induction, development and appraisal of pharmacy technicians and junior pharmacists and ensure that adequate training and supervision are provided

Manage the pharmacy technician team together with the clinical, prescribing and reception leads in each practice

Contribute to the vision and development of pharmacy services within the PCN

Support public health campaigns such as vaccination

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key responsibilities:

Provide pharmaceutical input to areas of chronic disease management within the practices and develop pharmacist-led patient care pathways

Undertake chronic disease reviews

Undertake structured medication reviews to manage patients with complex polypharmacy , especially older people, housebound patients, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities

Provide expert clinical medicines advice for the practice teams, giving support with prescription and medication queries

Help support the repeat prescriptions system including providing training for administrative and reception staff and reviewing and implementing repeat prescribing policies

Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all prescribers in the practices

Provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation, safe prescribing and quality improvement, identifying national and local prescribing guidance that affects patient safety requiring implementation - including MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and new research evidence

Manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services

Medicines reconciliation on hospital discharge and transfer of care

Support improvements in clinical care through practice-based audits and implementing change.

Liaise with community and hospital pharmacy services to help provide streamlined care, improve patient outcomes, and help manage workload, and liaise directly with hospital colleagues where prescribing needs to be returned to specialists.

Respond to patient queries, questions, and concerns regarding medications - face to face and/or telephone contact

Contribute to the recruitment, induction, development and appraisal of pharmacy technicians and junior pharmacists and ensure that adequate training and supervision are provided

Manage the pharmacy technician team together with the clinical, prescribing and reception leads in each practice

Contribute to the vision and development of pharmacy services within the PCN

Support public health campaigns such as vaccination

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Minimum 4 years post-graduate experience, some of which must have been in hospital or primary care setting
  • NHS experience and understanding of NHS environment and ethos
  • Experience of direct patient care

Desirable

  • NHS Primary Care Experience
  • Experience in diabetes and/or hypertension/COPD/asthma

Qualifications

Desirable

  • Independent Prescriber qualification
  • Completed CPPE 18 month pathway
  • Post Graduate diploma in General Pharmacy Practice

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

  • Excellent knowledge and understanding of clinical pharmacy, prescribing and medicines management
  • Excellent keyboard and computer skills

Desirable

  • Knowledge of EMIS clinical system

Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Self-motivation
  • Flexibility and ability to work with different teams in different practices
  • Excellent organisation and management skills - ability to prioritise
  • Strongly held values around equality, diversity and openness
  • Resillience and resourcefulness and an ability to cope under pressure
  • Leadership skills
  • Collaborative working
  • Proven commitment to continuing professional development
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Minimum 4 years post-graduate experience, some of which must have been in hospital or primary care setting
  • NHS experience and understanding of NHS environment and ethos
  • Experience of direct patient care

Desirable

  • NHS Primary Care Experience
  • Experience in diabetes and/or hypertension/COPD/asthma

Qualifications

Desirable

  • Independent Prescriber qualification
  • Completed CPPE 18 month pathway
  • Post Graduate diploma in General Pharmacy Practice

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

  • Excellent knowledge and understanding of clinical pharmacy, prescribing and medicines management
  • Excellent keyboard and computer skills

Desirable

  • Knowledge of EMIS clinical system

Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Self-motivation
  • Flexibility and ability to work with different teams in different practices
  • Excellent organisation and management skills - ability to prioritise
  • Strongly held values around equality, diversity and openness
  • Resillience and resourcefulness and an ability to cope under pressure
  • Leadership skills
  • Collaborative working
  • Proven commitment to continuing professional development

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Battersea Primary Care Network

Address

3 Austin Road

Battersea

London

Wandsworth

SW11 5JP


Employer's website

https://www.batterseapcn.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Battersea Primary Care Network

Address

3 Austin Road

Battersea

London

Wandsworth

SW11 5JP


Employer's website

https://www.batterseapcn.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Lead Clinical Pharmacist

Sarah Zebari

sarah.zebari@nhs.net

07852318105

Details

Date posted

06 November 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

M0074-24-0002

Job locations

3 Austin Road

Battersea

London

Wandsworth

SW11 5JP


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