Job overview
***This post will be based at Bramingham Park Medical Centre and Kingsways Health Centre, which are General Practice Surgeries within East LondonFoundation Trust***
The Primary Care directorate at ELFT have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated, and innovative Senior Clinical Pharmacist to join our Team.
We are looking for an individual who will support medicines management and be a clinical leader for medicines optimisation within our two surgeries.
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Main duties:
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team taking responsibility for
• areas of chronic disease management within the practice
• Undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage
• patients with complex poly-pharmacy, especially for older
• people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities
• Provide primary support to general practice and GPSU staff with regards to prescription and medication queries
• Clinical leadership of medicines optimisation, plan and organise quality improvement initiatives, appropriate specialist services and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services
• The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practic.
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations
About the Candidate
You will have the following skills/experience:.
• Professional registration with GPhC
• Master’s degree in pharmacy (or equivalent)
• Experience of working as a qualified, registered pharmacist in primary care, community or hospital pharmacy
• Independent prescriber
• Awareness of general practice and the agenda for medicines optimisation
• Good clinical pharmacy knowledge including terminology
This advert closes on Sunday 10 Mar 2024
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