# PCN - Clinical Pharmacist

**Company**: Waltham Forest Federated GP Network
**Location**: London
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £55524.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Waltham Forest Federated GP Network is recruiting a Clinical Pharmacist to support the delivery of the new Network Contract DES Service specifications.

The Clinical Pharmacist will have a key role in supporting the Structured Medications Review and Optimisation requirements, tackling over-medication of patients, and withdrawing medicines no longer needed.

**Main duties of the job**

- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.

- Uphold a prescribing qualification and work with and alongside the multi-disciplinary team across the Primary Care Network.

- Take responsibility for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex poly-pharmacy.

**Job responsibilities**

- Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines while helping to address both public health and social care needs of patients in the network.

- Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement.

- Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications effectively.

- Support further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams.

- Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacists across networks and the wider health system.

**Other Duties**

- Work within the policies of the scheme and Practices.

- Maintain a good working knowledge of health and safety procedures.

- Promote client involvement in the management of the service.

- Participate in regular supervision sessions and appraisals with the line manager.

**Person Specification**

- Must be a prescriber, or completing training to become a prescriber.

- Experience and an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.

- Two years of experience as a pharmacist is desirable.

**Additional Information**

- This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975.

- Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

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## Skills

### Required
- prescribing qualification
- clinical medication reviews
- patient-facing
- multi-disciplinary team

### Nice to have
- Emis
- two years experience as a pharmacist

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