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- Provide pharmaceutical input to areas of chronic disease management within the practices and develop pharmacist-led patient care pathways.
- Undertake chronic disease reviews, including diabetes, hypertension, COPD and asthma.
- Undertake structured medication reviews to manage patients with complex polypharmacy , especially older people, housebound patients, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities.
- Provide expert clinical medicines advice for the practice teams, giving support with prescription and medication queries.
- Help support the repeat prescriptions system including providing training for administrative and reception staff and reviewing and implementing repeat prescribing policies.
- Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all prescribers in the practices.
- Provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation, safe prescribing and quality improvement, identifying national and local prescribing guidance that affects patient safety requiring implementation, including MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and new research evidence.
- Manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
- Medicines reconciliation on hospital discharge and transfer of care
- Support improvements in clinical care through practice-based audits and implementing change.
- Liaise with community and hospital pharmacy services to help provide streamlined care, improve patient outcomes, and help manage workload, and liaise directly with hospital colleagues where prescribing needs to be returned to specialists.
- Respond to patient queries, questions, and concerns regarding medications, by face to face and or telephone contact.
- Contribute to the vision and development of pharmacy services within the PCN.
- Support public health campaigns such as vaccination.
- Provide pharmaceutical input to areas of chronic disease management within the practices and develop pharmacist-led patient care pathways.
- Undertake chronic disease reviews, including diabetes, hypertension, COPD and asthma.
- Undertake structured medication reviews to manage patients with complex polypharmacy , especially older people, housebound patients, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities.
- Provide expert clinical medicines advice for the practice teams, giving support with prescription and medication queries.
- Help support the repeat prescriptions system including providing training for administrative and reception staff and reviewing and implementing repeat prescribing policies.
- Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all prescribers in the practices.
- Provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation, safe prescribing and quality improvement, identifying national and local prescribing guidance that affects patient safety requiring implementation, including MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and new research evidence.
- Manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
- Medicines reconciliation on hospital discharge and transfer of care
- Support improvements in clinical care through practice-based audits and implementing change.
- Liaise with community and hospital pharmacy services to help provide streamlined care, improve patient outcomes, and help manage workload, and liaise directly with hospital colleagues where prescribing needs to be returned to specialists.
- Respond to patient queries, questions, and concerns regarding medications, by face to face and or telephone contact.
- Contribute to the vision and development of pharmacy services within the PCN.
- Support public health campaigns such as vaccination.
- Minimum 4 years post-graduate experience, with at least 1 year in general practice NHS experience and understanding of NHS environment and ethos Experience of direct patient care
- Special interest in diabetes, hypertension, COPD or asthma Post Graduate Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice
- MPharm degree GPhC registration
- Independent Prescriber qualification
- Completed 18 month CPPE pathway (or be in the process of completing)
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Excellent organisational and management skills, with ability to prioritise. Strongly held values around equality, diversity and openness.
- Resillience, resourcefulness and ability to cope under pressure.
- Leadership skills - ability to lead, mentor and provide support to colleagues, pre-registration pharmacists and university students.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a MDT and develop strong working relationships with staff in different practices, community and hospital pharmacy teams and CCG pharmacists.
- Proven commitment to continuing professional development and education
- Ability to develop and deliver education for other staff
- Excellent keyboard and IT skills
- Knowledge of EMIS clinical system
- Minimum 4 years post-graduate experience, with at least 1 year in general practice NHS experience and understanding of NHS environment and ethos Experience of direct patient care
- Special interest in diabetes, hypertension, COPD or asthma Post Graduate Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice
- MPharm degree GPhC registration
- Independent Prescriber qualification
- Completed 18 month CPPE pathway (or be in the process of completing)
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Excellent organisational and management skills, with ability to prioritise. Strongly held values around equality, diversity and openness.
- Resillience, resourcefulness and ability to cope under pressure.
- Leadership skills - ability to lead, mentor and provide support to colleagues, pre-registration pharmacists and university students.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a MDT and develop strong working relationships with staff in different practices, community and hospital pharmacy teams and CCG pharmacists.
- Proven commitment to continuing professional development and education
- Ability to develop and deliver education for other staff
- Excellent keyboard and IT skills
- Knowledge of EMIS clinical system
Job summary
Battersea PCN is looking for an enthusiastic, experienced Clinical Pharmacist with an independent prescribing qualification to provide maternity cover for 9 months from June/July 2025.
The pharmacy team is currently made up of a lead pharmacist, deputy lead pharmacist, and a mixture of four junior and senior clinical pharmacists who work as a team together across the 5 PCN practices.
Battersea PCN is also proud to be working in partnership with the Royal Marsden Hospital to support pre-registration pharmacists via a cross-sector pathway; this is an exciting time to train and develop a pipeline of pharmacists who will have the skills and knowledge to successfully work in general practice in future. Education and training is hugely valued at Battersea PCN, and pharmacy students from various London universities come to learn about working in general practice by shadowing our pharmacy team in general practice.
The successful candidate(s) will have excellent clinical, management and communication skills. You will be able to work flexibly and independently between our practices. You will be a strong team player and enjoy clinical, patient-facing work as well as being involved in developing new pharmacist-led pathways for chronic disease management and quality prescribing.
Main duties of the job
The role will be varied and include:
Patient-facing work: Chronic disease and structured medication reviews including diabetes, hypertension, asthma and COPD, medication queries, proactively managing patients with complex polypharmacy
Supporting safe prescribing: repeat prescribing, medicines reconciliation, high risk drug monitoring
Supporting quality prescribing: medicines optimisation, prescribing audits, QOF
Developing practice prescribing and chronic disease protocols and training practice staff
Providing expert clinical medicines advice to practice teams
About us
Battersea is fantastic place to work with its diverse, varied population, proximity to central London and beautiful open spaces such as Battersea Park and Clapham Common.
Battersea PCN comprises of 5 GP surgeries in a compact area of North Battersea (Bridge Lane Group Practice, Lavender Hill Group Practice, Battersea Fields Practice, Queenstown Road Medical Practice, Battersea Rise Group Practice) with a combined population ofapproximately 57,000 patients.
We enjoy excellent collaborative working relationships and we are excited about expanding our PCN Pharmacy team to improve health care services for our patients and to support our clinical and administrative staff.
Our practices are high-achieving and innovative and have a strong ethos of teaching and training. We will offer mentoring and educational support from our lead pharmacist, prescribing GP leads, practice managers, ICB pharmacists and additional peer support systems being developed in Wandsworth.
Date posted
16 April 2025
Pay scheme
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Salary
Depending on experience
Contract
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Duration
9 months
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
M0074-25-0002
Job locations
3 Austin Road
Battersea
London
Wandsworth
SW11 5JP
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Additional informationDisclosure 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).
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Battersea Primary Care Network
Address
3 Austin Road
Battersea
London
Wandsworth
SW11 5JP
Employer's website
https://www.batterseapcn.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Battersea Primary Care Network
Address
3 Austin Road
Battersea
London
Wandsworth
SW11 5JP
Employer's website
https://www.batterseapcn.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.