South Southwark Primary Care Network Senior Clinical PharmacistNHS

Job summary

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced senior clinical pharmacist to join our well-established and successful team of thirteen pharmacists and three pharmacy technicians. You will work across our network, providing dedicated support to general practice and our local population. The post holder will work with the Lead Pharmacist to provide support, direction and supervision to the appointed clinical pharmacists working across general practice and clinical leadership on medicines management and quality improvement initiatives.

The successful candidate will be supported through shadowing, robust clinical supervision arrangements and work alongside other clinicians as part of a multi-disciplinary team in patient and non- patient facing roles. The post holder will be supported with ongoing clinical learning and professional development.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting role which will contribute to the reshaping of neighbourhood care for our populations, directed and supported by the South Southwark Primary Care Network (PCN). The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to

• Provide direct line management of appointed clinical pharmacist(s)
• Monthly one-to one meeting with appointed clinical pharmacist(s)
• Planning and implementation of new staff inductions with Education and Training Lead
• Provide supervision as Designated Practitioner(DP) and Designated Prescribing Practitioner (DPP) for foundation trainee pharmacist(s)
• Working with Education and Training Lead to deliver training
• support long-term condition management within the practice including medication reviews.
• provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
• Provide support on prescription/medication queries and processes.
• Facilitate improved working with community and hospital pharmacy.
• Other general tasks as required.

You will contribute to ongoing service developments, providing data and progress updates, and sharing insights into how the PCN could better support and care for its population.

Job description

The post holder has a responsibility to adhere to all IHL policies, procedures and relevant legislation including the requirements of any professional bodies; maintain satisfactory personal performances and professional standards and to achieve agreed objectives for their role; attend mandatory training as identified by IHL and contribute to their own development.

This is a summary of job description and should not be regarded as an inflexible specification.

Priorities may change in line with service needs and new duties introduced after consultation with the post holder.

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About us

Our South Southwark PCN is made up of eighteen GP practices in four neighbourhoods - Camberwell, Peckham, Nunhead and Dulwich, serving approximately 157,000 patients, supported by their GP Federation, Improving Health (IHL).

The NHS Long Term Plan describes the prominent role Primary Care Networks play in delivering proactive, personalised and more integrated health and social care for their local populations. This will require collaborative working between organisations including GP practices, acute and community health, social care organisations and the voluntary and community sector. We are a large PCN with over 60 staff in post to date and expanding. We are committed to supporting and developing our staff, knowing this is crucial to our success. We have robust systems in place, including clinical supervision and peer support, and will continue to build on this as we expand our PCN team.