Clinical Pharmacist - Cranbrook

Healthbridge Direct Limited; Loughton; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Healthbridge Direct Limited in Redbridge is seeking a Clinical Pharmacist to join a GP practice PCN team. You will provide expertise in medicines management, conduct face-to-face medication reviews, and support safe prescribing across long-term conditions and care transfers.

The role focuses on optimizing repeat prescriptions, acute requests, and public health needs within multiple GP practices that form the PCN.

Job description

We are looking for Clinical Pharmacist to work with Cranbrook PCN. You will be responsible for their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management, provide face to face structured medication reviews, manage long term conditions, management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, manage repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation, acute prescription request, while ad-dressing both the public health and social care needs of patients in the GP practice(s) that make up the PCN. You will have a chance to make a difference everyday and deliver exceptional service., The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management, provide face to face structured medication reviews, manage long term conditions, management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, manage repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation, acute prescription request, while addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients in the GP's that make up the PCN The post holder will perform face to face medication review of patients with polypharmacy for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co- morbidities This role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice. The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber, if that qualification is not already held

Our mission in Redbridge is to strengthen, develop and support local general practice, to enable the delivery of high-quality care to local people. We are in the very fortunate position where all 4 of the Primary Care Networks (PCNs) in Redbridge are working together as part of the Redbridge-wide GP federation Healthbridge Direct. We are now at the very start of an exciting journey of building a team of over 100 additional clinical roles to support and enable the delivery of services within each of our 4 PCNs. We are building teams within and across the PCNs to enable peer support and team working both within and across professions. We have a unique opportunity in Redbridge to create something special and we want you to be part of it. We have the infrastructure, the relationships and the potential to create a team that will make a significant difference to GP practices, to outcomes for local populations, and to individual lives for patients across Redbridge