# Specialist Pharmacist -EHCH W/Haringey **Company**: Whittington Hospital NHS Trust **Location**: Islington **Job type**: temporary **Salary**: £58133.00 to £65261.00 **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9220-26-0750?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_bedea012-3dc ## Description The Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH) West Haringey service, delivered by Whittington Health, provides proactive, multidisciplinary healthcare support to residents living in care homes across West Haringey. The service is designed to improve residents' health, wellbeing, and quality of life by delivering high-quality, personalised healthcare within care home settings and reducing avoidable hospital admissions. The EHCH model brings together a multidisciplinary team that includes a Community Matron, Consultant Geriatrician, Pharmacist, Trusted Assessor (Nurse), Learning Disability Community Matron, and administrative support staff. The team works closely with GP practices, care home staff, residents, families, and other healthcare professionals to provide coordinated and holistic care. The service supports residents in West Haringey care homes, including Spring Lane, The Meadow, Alexandra Park, and Fairview, while also working collaboratively with learning disability and mental health services across Haringey. The overall aim of the EHCH West Haringey service is to ensure residents receive the right care, at the right time, in the right place, promoting independence, enhancing quality of life, reducing health inequalities, and preventing unnecessary hospital attendances and admissions. **Main duties of the job** - Support medication reviews and optimisation for those who meet the referral criteria face to face at the residential homes. - Conduct medication reviews involving the completion of a Structured Medication Review (SMR) tailored to the needs of the resident with their involvement. - Promote safe and evidence-based prescribing with the nominated general practitioners. - Deprescribe where required, ensuring safe and effective reduction of stopping inappropriate medicines together with the allocated GPs. - Support local care partners to provide care to elderly patients in the community and engage in new projects. - Participate in audits to implement cost-effectiveness. - Collaborate with GPs, consultant geriatricians, and the wider multidisciplinary team to provide holistic medication reviews. - Support local care partners provide care to elderly patients in care homes, if required. - Demonstrate an understanding of the specific clinical aspects of medicines management in this clinical frailty specialty. - Support the implementation of national guidance in medicines management for older people in care homes with complex pharmaceutical care needs. **Job responsibilities** - Maintain a personal high standard of clinical practice. - Develop and maintain knowledge of evidence-based practice and own competencies through CPD activities. - Use clinical information to inform clinical decision-making. - Work within professional or Trust clinical guidelines and maintain knowledge of current clinical practice. - Develop treatment goals/care plans in partnership with patients, their families or carers, and other members of the multi-disciplinary team. - Have a working understanding of the Mental Capacity Act and be confident in assessing a person's capacity to make decisions relating to their medications. - Communicate complex or sensitive information effectively. - Maintain accurate clinical records. - Provide verbal and written reports as required. - Update and develop patient medication assessment, treatment, and monitoring tools. - Provide clinical advice and recommendations on prescribing issues. - Provide relevant education and training to Whittington staff. **Person Specification** **Knowledge & Experience** - Essential: - Experience of multidisciplinary (MDT) working - Up-to-date clinical knowledge of complex care and long-term conditions - Previous experience of working in elderly care - Experience of developing clinical policies/guidelines - Desirable: - Ability to engage in the strategic development of the service - Experience in delivery of frailty service to older people - Experience of carrying out comprehensive medication reviews for patients in their own homes - Previous participation in audit/research - Experience of line management/team leadership **Education & Qualifications** - Essential: - MPharm degree or equivalent - Relevant professional qualification and current registration as a pharmacist - Completion of a certificate in Pharmacy Practice/Clinical Pharmacy, or equivalent - Desirable: - Completion of at least a postgraduate diploma qualification in General Pharmacy Practice/Clinical Pharmacy, or equivalent - Independent Prescriber **Skills & Abilities** - Essential: - Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload - Ability to work under pressure and manage competing priorities - Competent in IT and ability to learn new operating systems and software packages - Good interpersonal and communication skills - Confident, self-motivated, and energetic - Ability to interpret local or national guidance and translate them to front-line clinical practice - Experience of providing education and training to pharmacy and nursing staff, doctors, and other AHPs - Desirable: - None specified **Personal Qualities** - Essential: - Demonstrates an interest in providing quality care to frail older people - Evidence of and commitment to own personal development - Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to equal opportunities and equal access - Able to work flexibly to meet service needs ## Skills ### Required - Multidisciplinary working - Clinical knowledge of complex care and long-term conditions - Elderly care experience - Developing clinical policies/guidelines - Medication reviews - Deprescribing - Audit participation - Education and training provision ### Nice to have - Strategic development of services - Frailty service delivery - Comprehensive medication reviews - Audit/research experience - Line management/team leadership - Postgraduate diploma in General Pharmacy Practice/Clinical Pharmacy - Independent Prescriber --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9220-26-0750?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)