• Job Description

  Req#: A3957-25-0001?language=en&page=1141&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  An exciting opportunity has become available to join the Valentine Health Partnership. We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, highly motivated and experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our General Practice Team who acts within their professional boundaries, supported and working alongside a team of general practice pharmacists and technicians.

  The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and provide clinical pharmacy support to the practice/PCN with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will ensure the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix to improve patient outcomes and ensure better access to healthcare. They will play a key role in enhancing medicines use and the management of Long Term Conditions (LTC).

  The Post holder will provide the patient-facing services within the practice including undertaking medication reviews for complex patients with polypharmacy issues. The post holder will work with SEL ICB in supporting and development of policies.

  The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies and so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice.

  Main duties of the job

  • To engage with patients around medicines and LTC
  • To support the GPs and practice nurses on LTCs (within scope), prescribing and medicines optimisation issues
  • undertake long term condition annual reviews within the scope of clinical competence
  • Manage clinical communications, including (but not limited to) responding to medicines reconciliation and optimisation issues in clinic letters and discharge summaries
  • Medicines Use Reviews, focusing on patients with complex polypharmacy regimens and repeated flare ups of long term conditions
  • Undertake review and monitoring of complex /or high-risk treatments within scope (typically those being prescribed under formal Shared Care arrangements).
  • Undertake caseload management of complex patients
  • To build relationships with identified external groups (e.g. local acute trust pharmacists, community pharmacists etc)
  • To support on implementing national and local guidelines & protocols in relation to how medicines are used within the practice.
  • To support in developing, implementing, analysing and identifying risks for medicines optimisation
  • To support implementation of clinical governance priorities, especially through the development of action plans for drug alerts, NRL/MHRA medicines related documents and incidents and near misses.
  • To deal with any distressed callers & potential adverse drug effects or drug errors promptly and with sensitivity.
  • Respond to and manage queries and problems relating to medicines, utilising all available resources

  About us

  Valentine Health Partnership is a large state-of-the-art GP Training Practice based in the multicultural borough of Greenwich, with a list size of +32,000 patients and two surgeries, based in Woolwich and Shooters Hill.The practice is friendly, supportive and innovative.

  • Committed to health promotion and disease prevention.
  • Supportive, sociable working environment
  • Strong team ethos with close-knit clinical team & family-friendly working environment
  • We are now have own Primary Care Network and actively involved in a range of schemes and services to provide high-quality care to the local population.
  • Good CQC rate
  • 6 weeks Annual leave
  • Staff are entitled to join the NHS pension scheme
  • Lunch is provided for all monthly staff meetings
  • Food is provided every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday
  • Yearly payrises
  • On-site Free Parking
  • Company events
  • NHS discounts
  • Sick pay
  • Tea/Coffee/Biscuits
  • Team bonding activities
  • Onsite compact Gym
  • Eye care voucher reimbursement
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
  • Health and wellbeing resources

  Systems:

  • EMIS
  • Docman
  • Accurex

  Date posted

  28 March 2025

  Pay scheme

  Other

  Salary

  Depending on experience

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Part-time

  Reference number

  A3957-25-0001

  Job locations

  Ferryview Health Centre

  25 John Wilson Street

  Woolwich

  SE18 6PZ

  
  

  Holburne Road Surgery

  201 Holburne Road

  London

  SE3 8HQ

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Principle Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Functions/Responsibilities

  To engage with patients around medicines and LTCs e.g. receive and respond to simple and complex enquiries from patients, carers and others relating to medicines and liaise with other health care professionals as appropriate

  To undertake long term condition annual reviews within the scope of clinical competence

  Issue and sign prescriptions within scope of practice

  To support the GPs and practice nurses on LTCs (within scope), prescribing and medicines optimisation issues.

  Liaise with other prescribers to resolve medicines-related problems

  Manage clinical communications, including (but not limited to) responding to medicines reconciliation and optimisation issues in clinic letters and discharge summaries,

  Medicines Use Reviews, focussing on patients with complex polypharmacy regimens and repeated flare ups of long term conditions, including de-prescribing medicines where appropriate.

  Undertake review and monitoring of complex and/or high-risk treatments within scope (typically those being prescribed under formal Shared Care arrangements), ensuring systems are in place to recall patients appropriately and that potential risks arising from ongoing drug treatment are managed correctly.

  Undertake caseload management of complex patients (for example care home patients, vulnerable housebound patients, polypharmacy/multimorbidity patients) and optimise their medicines, including de-prescribing where appropriate.

  Adhere to practice guidance on the clinical coding of consultations, clinical communications, results of tests and scans, other healthcare episodes.

  To build relationships with identified external groups (e.g. local acute trust pharmacists, community pharmacists, community health services pharmacists, CCG pharmacists, district and community nurses)

  To support on implementing national and local guidelines and protocols in relation to how medicines are used within the practice. To ensure that policies and protocols are in place to ensure patients receive high quality and consistent treatment with medicines within general practice.

  To support in developing, implementing, analysing and identifying risks for medicines optimisation.

  To plan, develop, implement and analyse audit in agreed identified areas.

  To support implementation of clinical governance priorities, especially through the development of action plans for drug alerts, NRL/MHRA medicines related documents and incidents and near misses.

  To deal with any distressed callers and potential adverse drug effects or drug errors promptly and with sensitivity.

  Respond to and manage queries and problems relating to medicines, utilising all available resources

  • Individual Responsibilities

  The post holder is expected to:

  Adhere to Valentine Health Partnership policies and procedures and relevant legislation including the requirements of any professional bodies

  To maintain satisfactory personal performances and professional standards and to achieve agreed objectives for their role.

  Attend mandatory training as identified by the organisation

  Participate in annual appraisal and to contribute to their own development and the development of any staff that they are responsible for appraising.

  • Confidentiality

  All Valentine Health Partnership staff and contractors working for the organisation have both a common law duty and a statutory duty of confidentiality to protect patient (and indeed any personally identifiable) information and only use it for the purposes for which it was intended. The disclosure and use of confidential patient information needs to be both lawful and ethical.

  • Information Governance

  Valentine Health Partnership staff must keep up-to-date with the requirements of Information Governance and must follow organizational policies and procedures to ensure that the organisation information is dealt with legally, securely, efficiently and effectively. Staff must appropriately manage all the Information they handle during the course of their employment with Valentine Health Partnership, making the information available for sharing in a controlled manner, subject to statutory requirements and the organisations Information Governance Policy and formal Information Sharing arrangements.

  • Data Protection

  The organisation is registered as a data controller under the Data Protection Act 1998. Allthe personal information we hold, obtain, record, use and share as an organisation is governed by this Act. As an employee of Valentine Health Partnership you have a legal responsibility for all personal information you handle and must not at any time use the personal data in a way incompatible with the guidelines stipulated in this act. If you are in any doubt regarding what you should or should not do in connection with the Data Protection Act then you must contact your Line Manager.

  • Records Management

  As an employee of the organisation, you have a legal responsibility for all records you work with e.g. patient records, financial records, personal, administrative etc, that you gather or use as part of your work within the organisation. The records may be held in a variety of formats such as paper, electronic, microfiche, audio and video tapes etc. You must consult your manager if you have any doubt as to the correct management of the records with which you work.

  • Health and Safety

  All managers have a general accountability for ensuring, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare of the employees under their direction at work.

  Each employee is responsible to take reasonable care for his or her own acts or omissions and the effect that these may have upon the safety of themselves or any other person.

  Every employee must use safety equipment or clothing in a proper manner and for the purpose intended.

  Any employee who intentionally or recklessly misuses anything supplied in the interests of health and safety will be subject to disciplinary procedures.

  Every employee must work in accordance with any health and safety procedures, instructions or training that has been given.

  No employee may undertake any task for which they have not been authorised and for which they are not adequately trained.

  Every employee is required to bring to the attention of a responsible person any perceived shortcoming in our safety arrangements or any defects in work equipment.

  All employees are under a duty to familiarise themselves with Valentine Health Partnership Health and Safety Policies.

  • Risk Management

  Ensure that you implement systems and procedures at a local level to fulfil the requirements of the organisations Risk Management Strategy including local management and resolution of complaints and concerns, management of SUIs/incidents and near misses. Your specific responsibility for risk management will be clarified to you by your manager at your local induction

  • Emergency Planning

  In accordance with the organisations responsibilities under the civil contingencies Act 2004, to undertake duties as is reasonable directed at locations in the event of and for the duration of a significant internal incident, major incident or flu pandemic.

  • Equality and Human Rights

  Promoting equality, eliminating unfairness and unlawful discrimination, and treating colleagues, partners and the public with dignity and respect, are fundamental to successful performance in this role. You will be expected to actively promote equality and human rights and challenge racism, homophobia and other forms of discrimination through all your activities and support others to do the same.

  You will work with others on effective approaches to ensure strategies, policies and activities promote and demonstrate equality and human rights.

  You will use Equality Impact Assessment as part of developing and monitoring proposals and projects for their impact on equality and equity

  • Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults

  All employees have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults. Further guidance can be sought from your line manager.

  • Infection Control

  All employees have a responsibility to comply with the Health Act 2006 and Valentine Health Partnership policy and guidance on infection prevention and control, ensuring a sound knowledge of standard infection control precautions. You must keep up to date in infection control practice relevant to their area of practice and you are required to practice strict hand hygiene at all times when carrying out their duties and to complete mandatory annual infection control training

  • General

  The postholder may be required to work at any of the organisations sites in line with the service needs.

  This job description describes responsibilities, as they are currently required. It is anticipated duties will change over time and the job description may need to be reviewed in the future.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Principle Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Functions/Responsibilities

  To engage with patients around medicines and LTCs e.g. receive and respond to simple and complex enquiries from patients, carers and others relating to medicines and liaise with other health care professionals as appropriate

  To undertake long term condition annual reviews within the scope of clinical competence

  Issue and sign prescriptions within scope of practice

  To support the GPs and practice nurses on LTCs (within scope), prescribing and medicines optimisation issues.

  Liaise with other prescribers to resolve medicines-related problems

  Manage clinical communications, including (but not limited to) responding to medicines reconciliation and optimisation issues in clinic letters and discharge summaries,

  Medicines Use Reviews, focussing on patients with complex polypharmacy regimens and repeated flare ups of long term conditions, including de-prescribing medicines where appropriate.

  Undertake review and monitoring of complex and/or high-risk treatments within scope (typically those being prescribed under formal Shared Care arrangements), ensuring systems are in place to recall patients appropriately and that potential risks arising from ongoing drug treatment are managed correctly.

  Undertake caseload management of complex patients (for example care home patients, vulnerable housebound patients, polypharmacy/multimorbidity patients) and optimise their medicines, including de-prescribing where appropriate.

  Adhere to practice guidance on the clinical coding of consultations, clinical communications, results of tests and scans, other healthcare episodes.

  To build relationships with identified external groups (e.g. local acute trust pharmacists, community pharmacists, community health services pharmacists, CCG pharmacists, district and community nurses)

  To support on implementing national and local guidelines and protocols in relation to how medicines are used within the practice. To ensure that policies and protocols are in place to ensure patients receive high quality and consistent treatment with medicines within general practice.

  To support in developing, implementing, analysing and identifying risks for medicines optimisation.

  To plan, develop, implement and analyse audit in agreed identified areas.

  To support implementation of clinical governance priorities, especially through the development of action plans for drug alerts, NRL/MHRA medicines related documents and incidents and near misses.

  To deal with any distressed callers and potential adverse drug effects or drug errors promptly and with sensitivity.

  Respond to and manage queries and problems relating to medicines, utilising all available resources

  • Individual Responsibilities

  The post holder is expected to:

  Adhere to Valentine Health Partnership policies and procedures and relevant legislation including the requirements of any professional bodies

  To maintain satisfactory personal performances and professional standards and to achieve agreed objectives for their role.

  Attend mandatory training as identified by the organisation

  Participate in annual appraisal and to contribute to their own development and the development of any staff that they are responsible for appraising.

  • Confidentiality

  All Valentine Health Partnership staff and contractors working for the organisation have both a common law duty and a statutory duty of confidentiality to protect patient (and indeed any personally identifiable) information and only use it for the purposes for which it was intended. The disclosure and use of confidential patient information needs to be both lawful and ethical.

  • Information Governance

  Valentine Health Partnership staff must keep up-to-date with the requirements of Information Governance and must follow organizational policies and procedures to ensure that the organisation information is dealt with legally, securely, efficiently and effectively. Staff must appropriately manage all the Information they handle during the course of their employment with Valentine Health Partnership, making the information available for sharing in a controlled manner, subject to statutory requirements and the organisations Information Governance Policy and formal Information Sharing arrangements.

  • Data Protection

  The organisation is registered as a data controller under the Data Protection Act 1998. Allthe personal information we hold, obtain, record, use and share as an organisation is governed by this Act. As an employee of Valentine Health Partnership you have a legal responsibility for all personal information you handle and must not at any time use the personal data in a way incompatible with the guidelines stipulated in this act. If you are in any doubt regarding what you should or should not do in connection with the Data Protection Act then you must contact your Line Manager.

  • Records Management

  As an employee of the organisation, you have a legal responsibility for all records you work with e.g. patient records, financial records, personal, administrative etc, that you gather or use as part of your work within the organisation. The records may be held in a variety of formats such as paper, electronic, microfiche, audio and video tapes etc. You must consult your manager if you have any doubt as to the correct management of the records with which you work.

  • Health and Safety

  All managers have a general accountability for ensuring, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare of the employees under their direction at work.

  Each employee is responsible to take reasonable care for his or her own acts or omissions and the effect that these may have upon the safety of themselves or any other person.

  Every employee must use safety equipment or clothing in a proper manner and for the purpose intended.

  Any employee who intentionally or recklessly misuses anything supplied in the interests of health and safety will be subject to disciplinary procedures.

  Every employee must work in accordance with any health and safety procedures, instructions or training that has been given.

  No employee may undertake any task for which they have not been authorised and for which they are not adequately trained.

  Every employee is required to bring to the attention of a responsible person any perceived shortcoming in our safety arrangements or any defects in work equipment.

  All employees are under a duty to familiarise themselves with Valentine Health Partnership Health and Safety Policies.

  • Risk Management

  Ensure that you implement systems and procedures at a local level to fulfil the requirements of the organisations Risk Management Strategy including local management and resolution of complaints and concerns, management of SUIs/incidents and near misses. Your specific responsibility for risk management will be clarified to you by your manager at your local induction

  • Emergency Planning

  In accordance with the organisations responsibilities under the civil contingencies Act 2004, to undertake duties as is reasonable directed at locations in the event of and for the duration of a significant internal incident, major incident or flu pandemic.

  • Equality and Human Rights

  Promoting equality, eliminating unfairness and unlawful discrimination, and treating colleagues, partners and the public with dignity and respect, are fundamental to successful performance in this role. You will be expected to actively promote equality and human rights and challenge racism, homophobia and other forms of discrimination through all your activities and support others to do the same.

  You will work with others on effective approaches to ensure strategies, policies and activities promote and demonstrate equality and human rights.

  You will use Equality Impact Assessment as part of developing and monitoring proposals and projects for their impact on equality and equity

  • Safeguarding Children and Vulnerable Adults

  All employees have a responsibility for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults. Further guidance can be sought from your line manager.

  • Infection Control

  All employees have a responsibility to comply with the Health Act 2006 and Valentine Health Partnership policy and guidance on infection prevention and control, ensuring a sound knowledge of standard infection control precautions. You must keep up to date in infection control practice relevant to their area of practice and you are required to practice strict hand hygiene at all times when carrying out their duties and to complete mandatory annual infection control training

  • General

  The postholder may be required to work at any of the organisations sites in line with the service needs.

  This job description describes responsibilities, as they are currently required. It is anticipated duties will change over time and the job description may need to be reviewed in the future.

  Person Specification

  Skills

  Essential

  • Has a minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience.
  • Demonstrates an understanding of the structure and function of general practice and primary care.
  • Demonstrates an understanding of: prescribing issues in primary care; concepts of rational prescribing; and, strategies for improving prescribing
  • Recognises priorities when problem solving and identies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
  • Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
  • Gain acceptance for recommendations and inuence/ motivate/ persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/ agreed course of action where there may be signicant barriers
  • Should be self-motivated, adaptable, confident, mature and diplomatic approach

  Desirable

  • Familiarity with GP computer systems (EMISweb)
  • Good IT skills - ability to use Word, Excel, Power Point, and Internet to obtain and analyse complex technical information in order to produce reports and written information
  • Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
  • Has proven excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

  Experience

  Essential

  • Qualified Clinical Pharmacist registered with General Pharmaceutical Council
  • Experience of working with colleagues from a range of professional backgrounds

  Desirable

  • Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and working knowledge of read-codes / clinical coding

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
  • Clinical diploma or equivalent
  • Independent prescriber

  Person Specification

  Skills

  Essential

  • Has a minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience.
  • Demonstrates an understanding of the structure and function of general practice and primary care.
  • Demonstrates an understanding of: prescribing issues in primary care; concepts of rational prescribing; and, strategies for improving prescribing
  • Recognises priorities when problem solving and identies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
  • Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
  • Gain acceptance for recommendations and inuence/ motivate/ persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/ agreed course of action where there may be signicant barriers
  • Should be self-motivated, adaptable, confident, mature and diplomatic approach

  Desirable

  • Familiarity with GP computer systems (EMISweb)
  • Good IT skills - ability to use Word, Excel, Power Point, and Internet to obtain and analyse complex technical information in order to produce reports and written information
  • Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
  • Has proven excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills

  Experience

  Essential

  • Qualified Clinical Pharmacist registered with General Pharmaceutical Council
  • Experience of working with colleagues from a range of professional backgrounds

  Desirable

  • Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and working knowledge of read-codes / clinical coding

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
  • Clinical diploma or equivalent
  • Independent prescriber

  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).

  Additional information

  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

  Valentine Health Partnership

  Address

  Ferryview Health Centre

  25 John Wilson Street

  Woolwich

  SE18 6PZ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.valentinehealth.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Valentine Health Partnership

  Address

  Ferryview Health Centre

  25 John Wilson Street

  Woolwich

  SE18 6PZ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.valentinehealth.org.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.

Notice