Clinical PharmacistinLondoninLondonPUBLISHED THU 12 DEC 2024

Battersea PCN is looking for an enthusiastic, experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our expanding pharmacy team. The pharmacy team is currently made up of a lead pharmacist, deputy lead pharmacist, and a mixture of four junior and senior clinical pharmacists.

Battersea PCN is also proud to be working in partnership with the Royal Marsden Hospital to support pre-registration pharmacists via a cross-sector pathway; this is an exciting time to train and develop a pipeline of pharmacists who will have the skills and knowledge to successfully work in general practice in future. Education and training is hugely valued at Battersea PCN, and pharmacy students from various London universities come to learn about working in general practice by shadowing our pharmacy team in general practice.

The successful candidate(s) will have excellent clinical, management and communication skills. You will be able to work flexibly and independently between our practices. You will be a strong team player and will play a part in the further development of our pharmacy team over coming years. You will be an independent prescriber or working towards this qualification. You will enjoy clinical, patient-facing work as well as being involved in developing new pharmacist-led pathways for chronic disease management and quality prescribing.

Please note this is a new listing and previous applicants are welcome to apply.

Interviews for shortlisted candidates will be held on 9/1/25

The role will be varied and include:

Patient-facing work: Chronic disease and structured medication reviews including diabetes, hypertension, asthma and COPD, medication queries, proactively managing patients with complex polypharmacy

Supporting safe prescribing: repeat prescribing, medicines reconciliation, high risk drug monitoring

Supporting quality prescribing: medicines optimisation, prescribing audits, QOF

Developing practice prescribing and chronic disease protocols and training practice staff

Providing expert clinical medicines advice to practice teams

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Key responsibilities:

• Provide pharmaceutical input to areas of chronic disease management within the practices and develop pharmacist-led patient care pathways.
• Undertake chronic disease reviews, including diabetes, hypertension, COPD and asthma.
• Undertake structured medication reviews to manage patients with complex polypharmacy , especially older people, housebound patients, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities.
• Provide expert clinical medicines advice for the practice teams, giving support with prescription and medication queries.
• Help support the repeat prescriptions system including providing training for administrative and reception staff and reviewing and implementing repeat prescribing policies.
• Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all prescribers in the practices.
• Provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation, safe prescribing and quality improvement, identifying national and local prescribing guidance that affects patient safety requiring implementation, including MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and new research evidence.
• Manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
• Medicines reconciliation on hospital discharge and transfer of care
• Support improvements in clinical care through practice-based audits and implementing change.
• Liaise with community and hospital pharmacy services to help provide streamlined care, improve patient outcomes, and help manage workload, and liaise directly with hospital colleagues where prescribing needs to be returned to specialists.
• Respond to patient queries, questions, and concerns regarding medications, by face to face and or telephone contact.
• Contribute to the vision and development of pharmacy services within the PCN.
• Support public health campaigns such as vaccination.