Description
Modality Partnership Lewisham Division has a full-time vacancy for a Lead Clinical Pharmacist. The postholder will be a high-performing Independent Prescribing Pharmacist, working across the Division with leadership skills to support, supervise, teach and develop pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.
The role involves providing professional leadership, line management, supervision, teaching, training and development for the pharmacy team. The postholder will work as an Independent Prescriber in a patient-facing role, clinically assessing and treating patients, undertaking structured medication reviews and medication reviews, managing medicines-related queries and supporting long-term condition care within their scope of practice.
The postholder will collaborate with the Divisional Board, practices, the ICB and the wider Modality Partnership to ensure safe prescribing, effective medicines optimisation, robust governance, audit, medicines safety and delivery of agreed performance and quality priorities.
Key benefits include:
- Enrolment to the NHS pension scheme
- Annual leave minimum 27 days, plus 8 bank holidays pro rata
- Employee discounts and benefits scheme
- Employee assistance programme (EAP)
- Education and career pathways
- Enhanced family-friendly policies
- Flexible working
- Wellbeing support and initiatives
The ideal candidate will have:
- Minimum of five years post-registration experience
- Substantial patient-facing clinical pharmacy experience, including medication review clinics
- Experience working within a multidisciplinary team
- Good understanding of primary-care structures and general practice
- Experience of service development, project delivery, policy development and clinical audit
- Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm or equivalent pre-2000 qualification) plus one year's pre-registration training
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Registered Independent Prescriber
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
- Postgraduate training in clinical or pharmacy practice to Diploma level