Care Home Pharmacist - Medicines Optimisation Lead

West London Nhs Trust; England; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

West London NHS Trust is recruiting a Care Home Practice Pharmacist for the Care Home GP Practice in Ealing. You will work within a multi-disciplinary team, providing clinical medication reviews, supporting chronic disease management and medicines optimisation for residents in nursing and care homes.

The role involves advising on prescription queries, assisting with repeat prescriptions, and ensuring safe transfer of care through medicines reconciliation.

Qualifications

• Mandatory UK GPhC registration with independent prescribing annotation
• Experience in primary care pharmacy settings preferred
• Knowledge of medicines optimisation and QA frameworks

Responsibilities

• Perform clinical medication reviews for residents in care homes
• Advise on medicines optimisation within the care home GP practice
• Support repeat prescribing, acute requests and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care
• Provide guidance to pharmacy team and care home staff on medication queries and safety

Skills

Medicines optimisation

Pharmacist clinical knowledge

Polypharmacy management

Clinical reviews

Education

Post-graduate diploma level or equivalent

Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway equivalent

Job description

West London NHS Trust is recruiting a Care Home Practice Pharmacist for the Care Home GP Practice in Ealing. You will work within a multi-disciplinary team, providing clinical medication reviews, supporting chronic disease management and medicines optimisation for residents in nursing and care homes.

The role involves advising on prescription queries, assisting with repeat prescriptions, and ensuring safe transfer of care through medicines reconciliation.