Job vacancy: Bank Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist INW, Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Fulham London

Job summary

Main area: Pharmacist
Grade: B7
Contract: Bank
Hours: Flexible working
Job ref: 824-BANK-LIT1427

Employer: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Parsons Green Health Centre
Town: Fulham London
Salary: £27.48 Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay + Unsocial hours
Salary period: Hourly
Closing: 20/06/2025 13:00

Bank Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist INW

B7

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 14 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster, Hillingdon, Sutton, Kingston - 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.

At Central London Community Healthcare, we promote equality and foster an inclusive environment where our diverse workforce feels they belong and are treated with fairness, respect, and dignity, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

CLCH aims to create a culture where staff feel supported, valued and respected for what they do and where the values we seek to show to our patients are the same values we show to each other, in line with the NHS People Plan and Our NHS People Promise and our own strategic Equality values and objectives.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

· To assist in the development and maintenance of medicines related policies; protocols and procedures in relation to Bedded Services.

· To develop and review Patient Group Directions (PGDs).

· To contribute relevant articles to the monthly Medicines Management newsletter.

· To assist in the implementation of national and local prescribing strategies.

· To assist in the development, implementation, monitoring and audit initiatives to support safe medicines supply and use.

· To support medicines management projects and other medicines optimisation workstreams.

Person specification

Essential

Essential criteria

Experience of audit techniques
Experience of training
Experience of audit techniques
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 excellent decision making skills and is able to understand complex information
Effective negotiation skills and ability to persuade others
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

Desirable criteria

Understanding of the NHS and political environment
Leadership qualification

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:

Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)

Race Equality Network

Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.

Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.

The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)

"We work Flexibly"

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

JD (PDF, 520.6KB)

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Shanelle Green
Job title: Bank recruitment business partner
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 02039378322

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