Clinical Pharmacist

Tower Hamlets Gp Care Group; Greater London; Remote; GBP 57.000 - 64.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Tower Hamlets GP Care Group is seeking a Clinical Pharmacist to join a team delivering high quality clinical care across Isle of Dogs in Tower Hamlets. The role focuses on medicines management, collaboration with practice teams, and implementing improvements in prescribing in the community and GP practices.

The post is 30 hours per week on a permanent basis. CPPE Primary Care pathway enrolment is encouraged or evidence of exemption accepted.

Qualifikationen

• Registered Pharmacist with valid GPhC registration.
• Independent prescriber with current credentials.
• Experience in primary care prescribing and medicines management.

Aufgaben

• Be able to work flexibly in a general practice setting with clinicians, including existing Clinical Pharmacist colleagues.
• Develop and manage a medicines management plan and provide patient services per policy and guidance.
• Help build medicines management in designated practices, delivering training and advice to Primary Care colleagues to maximise cost-effective prescribing.
• Identify and promote quality improvements in medicines management across community pharmacy and GP practices.
• Develop new ways of working and redesign workflows for safe, effective medicine use.

Kenntnisse

Independent prescriber

Rational prescribing

Primary care prescribing

Ausbildung

Registered Pharmacist on GPhC Register

Jobbeschreibung

Job summary

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 through past training and experience.

If you would like the challenge of bring your skills to working in a diverse, fast growing and dynamic community ----Then this could be the right role for you!

The Care Group reserves the right to close this advert early where we have received a high number of applications, and we encourage candidates to submit their applications promptly.

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.

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.

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

Details

Date posted: 25 September 2026

Pay scheme: Other

Salary: £56,763 to £64,168 a year pro rata (depending on experience)

Contract: Permanent

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

Reference number: E0136-26-0023

Job locations: Tower Hamlets GP Care Group, Island Health, 145 East Ferry Road, London, E14 3BQ, United Kingdom; Docklands Medical Centre, 100 Spindrift Avenue, LONDON, E14 9WU, United Kingdom

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.

Person Specification

Knowledge

• Independent prescriber.
• 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.

Employer details

Employer name: Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

Address: Tower Hamlets GP Care Group, Island Health, 145 East Ferry Road, London, E14 3BQ, United Kingdom

For questions about the job, contact: Chris Ley, [e-mail], 07530273779