PCN Clinical Pharmacist

NHS; London Borough of Harrow; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

GP Direct, part of Sphere Primary Care Network, is seeking an accomplished Clinical Pharmacist for its well-established practice in Harrow. The role involves consulting with patients, prescribing, and providing training to the clinical team, contributing significantly to patient care.

Qualifications

• Completion of CPPE pathway required.
• Independent prescriber status needed.
• Experience in primary care and GP practice is essential.

Responsibilities

• Consult patients regarding health needs and prescribing.
• Monitor physical health and promote wellness.
• Provide specialist medicines advice and conduct audits.

Skills

Consultation Skills

Health Monitoring

Medication Management

Training

Education

Independent Prescriber

Completion of CPPE Pathway

Tools

EMIS Web

Job description

GP Direct, part of Sphere Primary Care Network(PCN), is seeking an accomplished and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist to join our friendly, forward-thinking, wellestablished practice and PCN.

The PCN Clinical Pharmacist will play akey role in supporting with the delivery of patient services for patientspresenting with new onset or long-term health needs.

The role will require completion of the CPPE pathway.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the ClinicalPharmacist role will include:

• Consult patients in respect of their health needs, for both acutepresentations and ongoing issues
• Undertake physical health monitoring & health promotion
• Undertake prescribing in line with NICE guidelines and local incentive schemes
• Reduce inappropriate polypharmacy, side effect monitoring & reduceinappropriate antipsychotic prescribing in e.g. dementia
• Provide specialist advise on medicines
• Provide training to the wider clinical and non-clinical team within yourscope of practice
• Support with safety and prescribingaudits
• Support the upskilling of PCN and practice pharmacy team to increasetheir confidence and skills managing medicines in your area of expertise

About us

GP Direct serves the largest patient population in Harrow through a team of over 80 people. Our main site is a modern state-of-the-art GP surgery which boasts 13 clinical rooms, an impressive conference room, spacious staff room, a dedicated call centre, admin office and a very large welcoming waiting room/reception area. Our branch site is a small yet modern practice located just 5mins drive from our main site.

• 27,000 patients over 2 sites
• CQC rating of Good
• Training practice
• WTE First Contact Physiotherapist
• WTE Enhanced Practice Nurse delivering care in the community
• Supportive well established nursing/HCA and admin team
• In-house phlebotomy service
• EMIS Web clinical software (several advanced users) and extensive use of technology in delivering care
• Good local reputation and positive online patient reviews
• GP Direct is part of Sphere PCN (six local practices serving a population of almost 70,000 patients)

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the job description document for more details about the Primary Care Network clinical pharmacist role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Independent prescriber
• Completion of the CPPE pathway

Experience

• Experience of working within a primary care setting
• - Experience of working in a GP practice

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.