Job summary
Pharmacists have a key role in this process, and in coming years additional funding will be available to enable PCNs to expand their workforce so that practice-based clinical pharmacists become the norm. This post represents the first step in building this PCN clinical pharmacist service.

The clinical aspects outlined in the role responsibilities are intended to:

• Support and improve prescribing and medication-related processes at a practice level
• Improve the safety of prescribing, especially around repeat medication and transfers of care
• Improve the quality of prescribing, with a specific focus on National Service Specifications
• Understand and address medication-related challenges specific to this PCN
• Enable Practices to optimize medicines-related targets in QOF

In addition to these, the Clinical Pharmacist post has been created to provide the leadership necessary to create a sustainable clinical pharmacy service for this PCN, including the training and development of clinical and non-clinical staff.

Main duties of the job
a. Clinical pharmacists will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.

b. They will be prescribers, or will be completing training to become prescribers, and will work with and alongside the general practice team. They will take responsibility for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (via STOMP- Stop Over Medication Programme).

c. They will provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the PCNs practices and to help in tackling inequalities.

About us
South Fulham is a forward thinking and friendly PCN looking to expand our paramedic and wider additional roles team. Based across our network of seven practices in Fulham you will offer remote and face to face appointments, with the added potential to provide home visits. If you are a motivated self-starter and passionate about offering excellent care, we would love to hear from you.

We are a forward thinking, can-do and ambitious team who aim to provide consistent, excellent healthcare for our patients and residents. We are excited to transition our PCN into its new phase of development and growth.

Job responsibilities
Please find our JD and Personal Spec in the "Supporting Information" section where detailed information is provided.

nb: We are unable to offer visa sponsorship.

Qualifications
Essential

• Pharmaceutical degree
• Current registration with General Pharmaceutical Council, which must be maintained.

Desirable

• Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
• Independent Prescriber

Experience
Essential

• 2 + years experience as a practicing pharmacist post qualification.
• Clinical pharmacy experience, ideally having worked within hospital up to band 7 or above.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.