Clinical Pharmacist PCN MATERNITY COVER

E4 Network

The closing date is 30 March 2025

Job summary

A Clinical Pharmacist plays a vital role in healthcare, working closely with physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals to ensure the safe and effective use of medications. Unlike traditional pharmacy roles that focus primarily on dispensing medications, clinical pharmacists take a more hands-on approach in patient care, optimising medication therapy, preventing adverse drug reactions, and improving patient outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

Collaborate with healthcare teams to develop and adjust medication plans based on patient needs.
Conduct medication reviews and identify potential drug interactions or adverse effects.
Educate patients and healthcare providers on proper medication use and management.
Monitor patient responses to therapy and recommend adjustments as needed.
Ensure compliance with regulatory standards and best practices in medication safety.
Contribute to research, quality improvement initiatives, and policy development in medication management.

Essential Skills & Qualifications:

A degree in Pharmacy (e.g., PharmD, MPharm, or BPharm) with clinical experience.
Strong knowledge of pharmacology, therapeutics, and evidence-based medicine.
Completion of the CPPE General Practice Pathway
Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
Ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team.
Experience with electronic health records and medication management systems.

Main duties of the job

PCN Clinical Pharmacist Maternity Cover (E4 PCN)

We are seeking an enthusiastic and adaptable Clinical Pharmacist to join our team for short-term maternity cover within a Practice in the E4 Primary Care Network (PCN). This role offers the opportunity to make a real difference in medicines management, patient safety, and quality improvement while supporting general practice.

About the Role

As a Clinical Pharmacist in Primary Care, you will play a key role in:

Optimising medication use to ensure patients receive safe, effective treatments.
Reducing hospital admissions by identifying and resolving medicine-related issues.
Supporting general practice teams to improve prescribing safety and manage workloads.
Providing clinical leadership on medicines safety and quality improvement projects.
Considering public and social care needs in medication-related decision-making.

We welcome applications from motivated, adaptable, and clinically skilled pharmacists who are passionate about delivering high-quality care in primary care settings. The ideal candidate will have:

Strong clinical knowledge and experience in medication reviews and prescribing.
Proficiency in I.T. systems used within primary care.
A proactive approach to medicines safety and quality improvement.
Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
CPPE General Practice Pathway completed this is an essential requirement.

About us

E4 Network is a Primary Care Network (PCN) consisting of five practices in Chingford, London, within the borough of Waltham Forest. We work collaboratively to ensure high-quality, efficient, and sustainable primary care services for our 54,000+ registered patients. Our mission is to support practices, patients, and staff by delivering innovative, patient-centred healthcare.

Our Clinical Pharmacist team consists of:

Three Senior Clinical Pharmacists providing leadership, mentorship, and line management.
Three Band 7 Clinical Pharmacists working closely with practices to optimise medicines management.

The team meets regularly with the Network Clinical Director, and Senior Pharmacists provide dedicated support and guidance to Band 7 Pharmacists during protected learning time. The pharmacists work as a network-wide team to improve prescribing safety and quality across all practices.

Date posted

10 March 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience Band 7-8A Plus Outer London HCAS

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

9 months

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

A2275-25-0004

Job locations

109 York Road

London

E4 8LF

2 Friars Close

London

E4 6UN

Handsworth Avenue

London

E4 9PD

1 Churchill Terrace

London

E4 8DG

1 Mount Echo Avenue

London

E4 7JX

Job description

Job responsibilities

CLINICAL RESPONSIBILTIES

Hold clinics for patients requiring 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 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.

Review 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 where responsible for prescribing as an independent prescriber for conditions where medicines have a large component (e.g. medicine optimisation for stable angina symptom control, warfarin monitoring and dose adjustment for patients requiring long-term anticoagulants).

Review the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking.

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.

Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.

Ensure patients are booked in for necessary monitoring tests where required.

Devise and implement practice searches to identify cohorts of patients most likely to be at risk of an unplanned admission and readmissions from medicines.

Management of medicines at discharge from hospital

To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes

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.

Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high--risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes)

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,

Responsibility for management of risk stratification tools on behalf of the practice.

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.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSBILITES

To develop and facilitate a good working relationship with community pharmacists and other local providers of healthcare.

To plan and organise own workload, including audit, project work and training sessions for members of the practice team, patients, and carers.

To maintain registration as a pharmacist and comply with appropriate professional codes.

As appropriate to the post, to maintain and develop professional competence and expertise, keep up to date with medical/therapeutic evidence and opinion, and local and national service, legislation, and policy developments, agree objectives and a personal development plan and participate in the appraisal process.

To attend local, regional, and national meetings of relevance as agreed with the Clinical Director.

All employees should understand that it is their personal responsibility to comply with all organisational and statutory requirements (e.g. health and safety, equal treatment and diversity, confidentiality and clinical governance).

COLLABRATIVE WORKING

Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care. Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g. CCGs)

Demonstrates ability to work as a member of a team Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary.

Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and network.

Foster and maintain strong links with all services across the borough.

Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships.

Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams.

Liaises with CCG colleagues including CCG Pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.

Liaises with CCG pharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management/ Optimisation to benefit from peer support.

Liaises with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients including but not limited to Patients GP, nurses, other practice staff, CCG pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, optometrists, dentists, health & social care teams, dieticians, Locality / GP prescribing lead, practice managers, Community nurses and other allied health professionals, community and hospital pharmacy teams.

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