Senior Lead Pharmacist inLiverpool inLiverpool PUBLISHED 13 NOV 2024

Brownlow Health is a large at-scale General Practice, based over four sites in Central Liverpool. We serve 80,000 patients, and are part of Central Liverpool Primary Care Network, which incorporates 9 practices, covering 110,000 patients city-wide. As well as providing traditional general practice to a diverse inner-city population across a wide demographic, we are also a large University practice and serve several Inclusion Health groups. This includes but is not limited to serving both homeless and Refugee and Asylum populations in Central Liverpool and supporting patients with issues related to substance misuse. We have a large multidisciplinary work force, including a pharmacy team consisting of a pharmacy manager, pharmacists, pharmacy techs and prescribing clerks. Our values include being quality driven, accountable and readily adaptable. We aim to provide efficient, compassionate care to our patients, and recognise the importance of the team in delivering this.

We are looking for a senior pharmacist to join our pharmacy team to work alongside another two senior pharmacists to lead a large team of pharmacists, technicians and prescribing clerks.

Job responsibilities include patient facing clinical medication reviews, medicine information to practice staff and patients, repeat prescribing, medicines quality improvement, medicines safety.

Please see job description for full overview.

About us

Patient facing Clinical Medication Review:

Undertake by means of face-to-face clinics, domiciliary visits, telephone and virtual medication review.

Perform Structured Medication reviews for patients on both single medications, and polypharmacy patients.

Review the indication for each medicine, compliance, monitoring arrangements and ensure patients get optimal benefit from their medication

Make appropriate recommendations as needed

Review and completion of shared care agreements

Partake in an on-call pharmacy rota in hours, addressing on the day phone calls, queries and providing medicines support to the duty clinical team.

Undertake changes to patients medication from hospital discharge and clinic letters.

Undertake clinical drug reconciliation for new patients registered with the practice

Provide a comprehensive prescribing service to care homes in conjunction with care home MDT and named staff for each care home

To provide services linked to prescribing that improve patient access

Medicine information to practice staff and patients:

Handle relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines.

Repeat prescribing:

Assist GP practices with the implementation and delivery of their repeat prescribing policy

Service development:

Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services linked to medicines management (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).

Please see attached job description for more information on the role and responsibilities.

Other job locations:

Peach Street Liverpool L69 7ZL

26 Argyle Street Liverpool L1 5DL

155 Edge Lane Edge Hill Liverpool L7 2PF

2 Vauxhall Road Liverpool L3 2BG

Bentley Road Liverpool L8 0SY

Although we allow for some remote working (depending on the role) we want to make you aware that you will need to be based on-site in one of the Practices to carry out your duties. We would also like to state that you will need to reside in Liverpool (or within the near vicinity).

We require applicants whose native language is not English to demonstrate their competence in the English language. This can be demonstrated by:

- Providing Certification of English proficiency

If you are successful and are registered with any of the Brownlow or CLPCN sites you are required to change practices and this will be a stipulate of employment.