Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Pharmacist
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week
- Job ref
- 824-HERTS-7271142
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hemel Hempstead General Hospital
- Town
- Hemel Hempstead
- Salary
- £55,877 - £62,626 Per Annum, inclusive of HCAS pro rata (part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Proactive Care Team - Neighbourhood Clinical Pharmacist
Band 8a
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
Job overview
We are recruiting passionate and proactive Neighbourhood Clinical Pharmacist to join the Dacorum Neighbourhood Proactive Care Service.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in a new team delivering community-based, person-centred care for residents. The focus will be on holistic assessments, care coordination, addressing health inequalities and delivering on the strategic ambition of a ‘neighbourhood health service’
Main duties of the job
You'll work as part of a multidisciplinary team supporting a cohort of residents with moderate to severe frailty who have had 2 or more unplanned admissions within the last year, linking them to health, social care, and voluntary sector services.
This service will see the shift from reactive care to proactive identification by using risk stratification searches within Primary Care records. The searches will identify a cohort of patients who would benefit from targeted intervention to improve outcomes, their overall experience and reduce the likelihood of further unplanned admissions. The service will operate alongside a number of other acute and community services, with the ability to step patients up in to appropriate services - including the highly successful virtual ward models in South and West Hertfordshire.
This role presents as an excellent opportunity to work in a topical area of service delivery within the NHS right now and will provide the opportunity to gain service development skills .
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Full details of the job description and service specification are in the attached document.
The postholder will be an experienced and established clinical pharmacist with experience working with polypharmacy, structured medication reviews, medication optimisation. The patient cohort is likely to be clinically complex with multifactorial health and social care needs where a person centred and pragmatic approach is needed.
You will be part of a multidisciplinary team working along side a dedicated GP, nurses, AHPs, and case coordinators.
**Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities.**
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- Undergraduate Degree in Pharmacy: MPharm (or equivalent prior to 2002)
- Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualification to at least diploma level/CPPE PCPE pathway
- Takes personal responsibility for Continuing Professional Development as evidenced by portfolio
- Uses reflective practice for personal and professional development
Desirable criteria
- Leadership Qualification
- Independent Prescribing Qualification or working towards this qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post-qualification experience of clinical pharmacy, medicines information and prescribing advice
- Experience of working in secondary care or in a multidisciplinary environment s
- Experience of training
- Experience of audit technique
Desirable criteria
- Primary care experience including Community Services
- Experience with Care of the Elderly/Frailty patients
- Project management experience • Experience with line management
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Up to date clinical and pharmaceutical knowledge
- Sound knowledge of prescribing, pharmacy and medicines management issues faced in primary and secondary care
- Excellent communication skills – both verbal and written including presentation skills and report writing
- Team player but able to work independently
- Demonstrates initiative
- Demonstrates excellent decision-making skills and can understand complex information
- Effective negotiation skills and ability to persuade others
- Ability to assimilate, analyse and interpret clinical and financial data.
- Good problem-solving skills
- Good inter-personal skills and ability to build relationships
- Ability to provide succinct and objective advice
- To manage own time, prioritise workload effectively and work to tight deadlines
- Computer literate – working knowledge of office applications, internet, email and electronic diary systems
- Ability to plan, set objectives, priorities and review performance against objectives
- Ability to command and deal sensitively with emotive situations and be seen as credible by professional colleagues
- Can identify and manage risks and evaluate quality of own work and service
- Ability to adapt to different working environments
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Reena Devit
- Job title
- Lead Pharmacist, Community Health Services, Herts
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07572 245793
- Additional information
Alternatively please contact Louise Ayres, Deputy Director of Operations at [email protected] / 07795 367951
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