Senior Experienced Clinical Pharmacist

NHS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider is seeking a Senior Clinical Pharmacist for their GP practice in London. The role involves managing medication reviews, providing clinical advice, and ensuring compliance with health regulations. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in pharmacy, strong communication skills, and a proactive approach to patient care. This position offers a competitive salary along with opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits package

Opportunities for professional development

Free onsite parking

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years post-qualification experience.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Experience of EMIS is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Hold clinics for medication reviews and provide support.
• Manage patients at risk of hospital admissions due to medications.
• Implement prescribing changes and manage repeat prescribing policies.
• Provide education and training to practice staff.

Skills

Therapeutic and clinical knowledge

Excellent communication skills

Interpersonal skills

IT skills

Problem-solving

Planning and management

Education

Undergraduate degree in Pharmacy

General Pharmaceutical Council registration

Independent prescriber qualification

Job description

Job summary

Please note: We reserve the right to close this advert early, extend the recruitment timeframe, or pause the process if we receive a high volume of suitable applications or appoint an appropriate candidate sooner than expected.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Clinical Pharmacist to join our busy GP practice. The successful candidate will report directly to the Lead Clinical Pharmacist and the Medicines Management GP Partner. You will work collaboratively with a dynamic team of pharmacists and a pharmacy technician to deliver exceptional patient care and optimize medication management.

About us

Oak Lodge Medical Centre

234 Burnt Oak Broadway, Edgware, London, Barnet, HA8 0AP

Benefits

Competitive salary and benefits package.

Opportunities for professional development and career progression.

Free onsite parking.

Job responsibilities

Medication Reviews: Hold clinics for patients requiring face‑to‑face structured medication reviews, provide telephone support, undertake structured reviews with multi‑morbidity and polypharmacy patients, implement prescribing changes (as an independent prescriber) and order relevant monitoring tests.

Long Term Conditions: See patients in long‑term condition clinics, implement improvements to patients’ medicines, including de‑prescribing, manage own case load, run own long‑term condition clinics with GPs and support clinical decision making.

High‑Risk Medication Reviews: Manage patients at risk of hospital admissions and harm from poor use of medicines, attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case meetings.

Repeat Prescribing: Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy, manage the repeat prescribing re‑authorisation process, review medicines reaching review dates, ensure patients are booked in for necessary monitoring tests where required.

Medicines at Discharge from Hospital: Reconcile medicines following discharge, identify and rectify unexplained changes, perform post‑discharge medicines care plan, dose titration, booking of follow‑up tests, work with patients and community pharmacists.

Medicines Safety: Work with patients, network and primary care teams to minimise risks through medicines optimisation, review national/local policy and guidance, manage the implementation of changes to medicines and guidance, develop protocols for managing patients on high‑risk medications.

Cost Saving: Recommend and manage pharmacy technicians to make changes to medicines (switches) designed to save on medicine costs.

Clinical Advice and Expertise on Medicines: Answer all medicine‑related enquiries from GPs and practice staff, provide telephone advice, monitor effect of changes.

Care Quality: Ensure the practice(s) are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

Training: Provide education and training to practice staff on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.

Person Specification

Experience

• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence‑based healthcare.
• Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form.
• Appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing.
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
• Strong IT skills.
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
• Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs.
• Can work under pressure and to meet deadlines.
• Produces timely and informative reports.
• Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with recommendations.
• Works effectively, independently and as a team member.
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
• Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions.

Desirable

• Experience of EMIS.

Qualifications

Essential

• Completion of an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Independent prescriber.
• Minimum of 3 years post‑qualification experience.

Desirable

• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
• Have worked in general practice for at least 1 year.

Management

Essential

• Demonstrates understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision.
• Demonstrates ability to improve quality within limitations of service.
• Reviews last year’s progress and develops clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others.
• Demonstrates ability to motivate self to achieve goals.
• Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management.
• Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol.
• Demonstrates understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service.

Additional Information

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.

UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Oak Lodge Medical Centre

234 Burnt Oak Broadway, Edgware, London, Barnet, HA8 0AP

Website: https://oaklodgemedicalcentre.co.uk/