Senior Experienced Clinical Pharmacist

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

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Greater London is looking for a Senior Clinical Pharmacist. The successful candidate will work with a dynamic team, managing medication for patients with long-term conditions and conducting clinical reviews. You will provide expertise in optimizing medication management and ensuring patient safety, with a focus on reducing polypharmacy and preventing hospital admissions. This role offers competitive salary and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Opportunities for professional development

Free onsite parking

Qualifications

• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of evidence-based healthcare.
• Experience of working in general practice for at least 1 year.
• Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information.

Responsibilities

• Support practice across key clinical and prescribing areas.
• Manage minor ailments and run clinics to meet patient demand.
• Conduct structured medication reviews with patients.

Skills

Therapeutic knowledge

Excellent communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Independent prescriber

Ability to work under pressure

Education

Undergraduate degree in Pharmacy

Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Minimum of 3 years post-qualification experience

Tools

EMIS

Job description

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.

Main duties of the job

You will support the practice across key clinical and prescribing areas, including long-term condition management (hypertension, diabetes, asthma, COPD). Experience in lipid management is required, including initiating and monitoring cholesterol-lowering medication during cardiovascular reviews. The role includes managing minor ailments and running clinics to meet patient demand.

You will help the practice achieve QOF and other prescribing targets, support pharmacy technicians and junior pharmacists, and provide expertise in clinical medication reviews while addressing public health and social needs. A key focus is reducing inappropriate polypharmacy, preventing medicine-related hospital admissions, and helping patients get the best outcomes from their medicines.

You will liaise with community and hospital pharmacy teams to ensure continuity of care, manage repeat prescription re-authorisation, and respond to medicines queries. You will improve prescribing quality and safety through audits and recall systems, support practice formularies to ensure safe and cost-effective prescribing, action MHRA alerts, implement NICE and evidence-based guidelines, run clinics where medicines are the main intervention (including DOAC monitoring), and provide medicines information and training for the practice team.

About us

Competitive salary and benefits package.

Opportunities for professional development and career progression

Free onsite parking

Job responsibilities

Primary roles and responsibilities

Medication Reviews Hold clinics for patients requiring face-to-face structured medication reviews i.e. a review of the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicine taking. Provide a telephone support for patients with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines. Undertake structured medication reviews with patients with multi-morbidity and polypharmacy and implement own prescribing changes (as an independent prescriber) and order relevant monitoring test.

Long Term Conditions See patients in long term condition clinics and implement improvements to patient's medicines, including de-prescribing. Manage own case load, run own long-term condition clinics in conjunction with GPs and support clinical decision making when medicine management input is required Review the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking.

Reviews

Manage patients at risk of hospital admissions and harm from poor use of medicines. Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients with multi-morbidity and polypharmacy and implement own prescribing changes (as an independent prescriber) and order relevant monitoring tests. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case meetings.

Repeat Prescribing

Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy. Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates. Ensure patients are booked in for necessary monitoring tests where required.

Management of

Medicines at Management of medicines at discharge from hospital To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and

Discharge from Hospital rectifying unexplained changes manage these changes without referral to a GP. Perform a clinical medication review, produce a post discharge medicines care plan including dose titration and booking of follow up tests and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

Medicines Safety Working with patients, the network and primary care teams to minimise risks through medicines optimisation. Review national and local policy and guidance that affects patient safety using medicines, including MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and emerging evidence form clinical trials. Manage the process of implementing changes to medicines and guidance for practitioners. Develop and put into place protocols for managing patients on high-risk medications and train admin/reception staff in these to optimise safe management of these patients. Design, develop and implement of clinical system searches to identify cohorts of patients at high risk of hard from medicines,

Cost Saving Make recommendations for, and manage pharmacy technicians to, make changes to medicines (switches) designed to save on medicine costs where a medicine or product with lower acquisition cost is now available.

Clinical Advice and Expertise on Medicines Answers all medicine-related enquiries from GPs and other practice staff with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Provide telephone advice for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.

Care Quality

Commission To ensure the practice(s) are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

Training Provide education and training to the 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.
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form
• Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
• 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
• Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
• Produce timely and informative reports
• Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
• Work 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
• Experience of EMIS

Qualifications

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

Management

• Demonstrates understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision
• Demonstrates ability to improve quality within limitations of service
• Reviews last years 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

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.