Job summary
Are you a dedicated and ambitious pharmacist looking to make a real difference in patient care? This is an exciting opportunity to provide a high-quality clinical pharmacy service to the Integrated Local Services directorate, working with services such as GSTT @Home, Integrated Care Southwark, and Integrated Care Lambeth. You will be a key member of a large multidisciplinary team, providing patient-centred care in various community settings, including health centres, patients' homes, and other community locations across Lambeth and Southwark.
We are seeking a highly motivated Integrated Care Pharmacist to join our Integrated Local Services (ILS) and Pharmacy Department teams. If you are a self-sufficient, compassionate, and skilled pharmacist who wants to be part of a dynamic and supportive team, we encourage you to apply.
Main duties of the job
Many of our patients require multidisciplinary interventions. The post holder will be responsible for delivering the clinical pharmacy service, ensuring that the use of medicines is optimised through safe prescribing, handling and administration processes. They will also undertake domiciliary medication reviews and co-ordinate the implementation of pharmaceutical care plans to ensure that patients get the best outcomes and experience from taking medicines.
For further information on the role and its requirements please refer to attached job description and person specification documents.
About us
Integrated Local Services provide a range of community and inpatient services for the communities of Lambeth and Southwark. Services provided include neighbourhood nursing, specialist rehabilitation & reablement, specialist palliative & end of life care, vulnerable adults and prevention services, and the @Home service. Services are delivered in various locations e.g. health centres, community bed-based units, and patients' homes. We work closely with teams at King's College Hospital and with social, mental health and voluntary sectors. Our aim is to enable people to live healthy independent lives for as long as possible within their normal place of residence. Through close multi-disciplinary relationships and new ways of working, the pharmacy team enables the service to make best use of capacity to help meet demand as well as strengthen existing relations with Adult Social Care. You will join a team of experienced pharmacists within GSTT who are driving medicines optimisation across Lambeth and Southwark. You will provide professional advice and work closely with multidisciplinary teams including community matrons, GPs, therapists, consultants, community pharmacists as well as other specialist and generalist healthcare and social care practitioners to optimise medicines use. The post offers a real opportunity to drive service development and improvement that is patient-centred, through clinical leadership and innovation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on the role and its requirements please refer to attached job description and person specification documents.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on the role and its requirements please refer to attached job description and person specification documents.
Person Specification
Qualification and Knowledge
Essential
- Registered member of GPhC
- Substantial evidence of CPD and continuing education
- Educated to degree level
Desirable
- Qualified Non-Medical Prescriber
- Member of UKCPA or other recognised groups / network for older people
- Specialist training, qualification or education in the care of older people
Experience
Essential
- Undertaking clinical medication reviews in older people and improving adherence
- Delivering direct pharmaceutical care
- Sound therapeutic and clinical knowledge in care of older people
- Ability to provide high quality clinical advice and communicate complex pharmacy issues that may be frequently challenged
Desirable
- Understands national policies and the context around managing long term conditions, case management and reducing unnecessary hospital admissions in the NHS and their implication for medicines management
- Understands the wider issues in the community and across the interface with social care that affect medicines optimisation particularly during transition of care
Skills
Essential
- Understands pharmacy and medicines management issues in primary/community and secondary care that affect patient care
- Ability to provide high quality clinical advice and communicate complex pharmacy issues that may be frequently challenged
- Willingness to tackle difficult issues as well as challenge practices and systems that lead to sub-optimal use of medicines
- Working within multidisciplinary teams
- Understands the effects of ageing on drug handling and medicines use
Desirable
- Ability to work autonomously and use own initiative
Person Specification
Qualification and Knowledge
Essential
- Registered member of GPhC
- Substantial evidence of CPD and continuing education
- Educated to degree level
Desirable
- Qualified Non-Medical Prescriber
- Member of UKCPA or other recognised groups / network for older people
- Specialist training, qualification or education in the care of older people
Experience
Essential
- Undertaking clinical medication reviews in older people and improving adherence
- Delivering direct pharmaceutical care
- Sound therapeutic and clinical knowledge in care of older people
- Ability to provide high quality clinical advice and communicate complex pharmacy issues that may be frequently challenged
Desirable
- Understands national policies and the context around managing long term conditions, case management and reducing unnecessary hospital admissions in the NHS and their implication for medicines management
- Understands the wider issues in the community and across the interface with social care that affect medicines optimisation particularly during transition of care
Skills
Essential
- Understands pharmacy and medicines management issues in primary/community and secondary care that affect patient care
- Ability to provide high quality clinical advice and communicate complex pharmacy issues that may be frequently challenged
- Willingness to tackle difficult issues as well as challenge practices and systems that lead to sub-optimal use of medicines
- Working within multidisciplinary teams
- Understands the effects of ageing on drug handling and medicines use
Desirable
- Ability to work autonomously and use own initiative
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
