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NHS Jobs; Chipping Barnet; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs is seeking an experienced general practice pharmacist to provide clinical leadership within a GreenLight pharmacist team in a GP setting. You will lead structured medication reviews, medicines optimisation, and quality improvement initiatives while mentoring junior staff and coordinating with practice GPs and hospital teams.

The role focuses on safe prescribing, inter-professional collaboration, and delivering high-quality patient care in a busy general practice environment in England.

Qualifications

• Clinical knowledge essential to provide expert medicines advice in a general practice setting.
• Demonstrated leadership and the ability to manage and mentor others.

Responsibilities

• Lead, train and coordinate less experienced pharmacy professionals.
• Provide clinical pharmacy leadership for the GP practice.
• Deliver structured medication reviews and medicines optimisation.
• Support prescription processing, medicines reconciliation on transfer of care, and safety improvement.

Skills

Clinical knowledge

Leadership

Management

Collaborative working

Education & training

Research & evaluation

Job description

The post holder is an experienced general practice pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supported and working alongside a team of GreenLight pharmacists in general practice. In this role they will be supported by practice GPs and the GL@GP Director who will develop, manage and mentor them. The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and provide clinical pharmacy leadership for the practice, taking responsibility for, and not limited to, Structured Medication Reviews, areas of chronic disease management, medicines optimisation, quality improvement, the quality and outcomes framework and other enhanced services. The post holder will be responsible for leading, training and coordinating the work of less experienced pharmacy professionals to proactively and competently manage repeat prescribing systems, deal with acute prescription requests and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care, if necessary putting in place systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patients in the GP practices. The post holder will provide support to practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries, ensuring integration with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage GP workload. The role is pivotal to improving quality of care and operational efficiencies and so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice. This job description is intended as a basic guide to the scope and responsibilities of the post and is not exhaustive. It will be subject to regular review and amendment as necessary in consultation with the post holder.

Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility

• Patient facing * Clinical Medication Reviews
• Patient facing* care home medication reviews
• Patient facing* domiciliary clinical medication review
• Patient facing* medicines support
• Telephone medicines support
• Medicine information to practice staff and patients
• Unplanned hospital admissions
• Documents management
• Repeat prescribing
• Signposting
• Risk stratification
• Service development
• Information management
• Medicines quality improvement
• Medicines safety
• Education and Training Public health * Due to Covid risks patient facing will largely involve managing patients remotely i.e. by phone or video link.

Required skills and attributes

• Ability to develop collaborative working relationships
• Clinical knowledge, Skills and Experience
• Leadership experience
• Management experience
• Education, Training and Development
• Research and Evaluation