Clinical Pharmacist

NHS Jobs; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 57,000 - 64,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Home or remote working

Job summary

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group is seeking a Clinical Pharmacist to join our primary care team on the Isle of Dogs. This 30-hour role focuses on delivering high-quality medicines management and patient services within practice settings in Tower Hamlets.

You will support cost-effective prescribing, lead medicines optimisation, and work with clinicians to implement changes across designated practices, with CPPE pathway engagement encouraged.

Qualifications

• Must be an independent prescriber.
• Minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience.
• Registered Pharmacist on GPhC Register.

Responsibilities

• Be able to work flexibly and supportively in a general practice setting alongside other clinicians, particularly existing Clinical Pharmacist colleagues.
• Develop and manage a medicines management plan and deliver patient services as determined by practice policy and local and national guidance.
• Help build the medicines management approach in designated practices across the Network, including delivery of training and advice and expertise to other Primary Care colleagues, to maximise cost-effective prescribing and improve the quality of patient care.
• To identify, develop and promote quality improvements in medicines management and pharmaceutical understanding across community pharmacy & GP practices ensuring that best practice is adopted.
• To develop and support new ways of working and workflow redesign linked to the safe, effective, high quality, use of medicines by providing professional specialist medicines management.

Skills

Independent prescriber

Medicine optimisation

Education

Registered Pharmacist on GPhC Register

Job description

Be part of a New Wave of Health for the Isle of Dogs

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and dynamic Clinical Pharmacist, to be part of a team working in primary care across the Isle of Dogs in Tower Hamlets.

The Healthy Island Partnership has been in operation for over 16 years and during this time has been at the forefront of many important changes to the health and wellbeing of local people. Excellent clinical achievement matched by work in the community around self-health has been a hallmark of Network success.

As a Clinical Pharmacist you will be responsible for working with and assisting practice teams in providing and supporting high quality clinical care for acute and chronic problems. Implementing effective medicine management; identifying areas for improvement and initiating and managing change.

This is a 30-hour, permanent position for someone with a Pharmacy degree and minimum 5 years post -qualification experience. The successful candidate must be willing to enrol on the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway or submit evidence of exemption though past training and experience.

Main duties of the job

• Be able to work flexibly and supportively in a general practice setting alongside other clinicians, particularly existing Clinical Pharmacist colleagues.


• Develop and manage a medicines management plan and deliver patient services as determined by practice policy and local and national guidance.


• Help build the medicines management approach in designated practices across the Network, including delivery of training and advice and expertise to other Primary Care colleagues, to maximise cost-effective prescribing and improve the quality of patient care.


• To identify, develop and promote quality improvements in medicines management and pharmaceutical understanding across community pharmacy & GP practices ensuring that best practice is adopted.


• To develop and support new ways of working and workflow redesign linked to the safe, effective, high quality, use of medicines by providing professional specialist medicines management.

About us

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (The Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.

Read up more about Tower Hamlets GP Care Group, click here: https://www.gpcaregroup.org/

The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.

Click here to know more about Tower Hamlets Together partnership- https://www.towerhamletstogether.com/

The key priorities for the Care Group are:

Innovation and support for primary care

Being a great place to work

Integrating primary and community care

Providing of high-quality cost-effective care to local people

Influencing improvements in health outcomes

Job responsibilities

• Be able to work flexibly and supportively in a general practice setting alongside other clinicians, particularly existing Clinical Pharmacist colleagues.


• Develop and manage a medicines management plan and deliver patient services as determined by practice policy and local and national guidance.


• Help build the medicines management approach in designated practices across the Network, including delivery of training and advice and expertise to other Primary Care colleagues, to maximise cost-effective prescribing and improve the quality of patient care.


• To identify, develop and promote quality improvements in medicines management and pharmaceutical understanding across community pharmacy & GP practices ensuring that best practice is adopted.


• To develop and support new ways of working and workflow redesign linked to the safe, effective, high quality, use of medicines by providing professional specialist medicines management.

Person Specification

Knowledge

• Independent prescriber.

Knowledge

• An appreciation of the nature of primary care


• prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.

Qualifications

• Registered Pharmacist on GPhC Register.

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience.

Skills and Abilities

• Able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.

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.

£56,763 to £64,168 a yearpro rata (depending on experience)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time,Job share,Flexible working,Home or remote working,Compressed hours,Term time hours