Description
An exciting vacancy has arisen for a motivated, patient-centred pharmacist with strong clinical skills to work across both the interface and community setting as part of the domiciliary care arm of the Lewisham Integrated Medicines Optimisation Service.
The postholder will undertake patient-centred medication reviews, provide prescribing and medicines management advice, and work collaboratively across primary, secondary, community and social care services to improve patient outcomes, safety and continuity of care.
Key Responsibilities:
- Conduct comprehensive medication reviews for high-risk and vulnerable patients, including older people, frail housebound patients, and those with multiple long-term conditions.
- Optimise medicines use to improve adherence, reduce medicines-related harm, hospital admissions and avoidable waste.
- Prescribe independently within agreed scope of practice and provide specialist advice to patients, carers and healthcare professionals.
- Support safe transfer of care through medicines reconciliation and communication across primary and secondary care interfaces.
- Contribute to quality improvement, clinical audit, service evaluation and data collection to demonstrate outcomes.
- Support implementation of prescribing initiatives, formulary guidance, shared care protocols and medicines optimisation programmes.
- Provide education, training and clinical leadership on medicines optimisation for multidisciplinary teams across health and social care.
- Work with GP practices, community pharmacies, PCNs, the ICB and hospital services to improve prescribing quality, safety and cost-effectiveness.
- Develop and improve systems and pathways relating to medicines ordering, supply, repeat prescribing and medicines support services.
- Accurately document clinical activity and maintain appropriate records on Trust and primary care clinical systems.
Key Outcomes:
- Improved medicines optimisation and patient safety.
- Reduced medicines-related admissions and avoidable harm.
- Enhanced patient adherence and experience.
- Delivery of commissioned service objectives and performance targets.
- Improved integration of care across community, primary and secondary care settings.
- Increased prescribing quality, effectiveness and value for money.
The post is a fixed-term 12-month part-time position, paid under the Agenda for Change pay scheme at Band 7 (£49,387 to £56,515 per annum).
The successful candidate will be based at either South Lewisham Health Centre or University Hospital Lewisham.