Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
Clinical Primary Care Pharmacist - LIMOS
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About the Role
Interested in working in developing your clinical skills and working in the community setting?
Following promotion of the existing postholder, an exciting vacancy has arisen for a motivated, patient-centered pharmacist with strong clinical skills to work across both the interface and community setting as part of the domiciliary care arm of the Lewisham Integrated Medicines Optimisation Service.
This is a unique opportunity to work in an award-winning service and gain experience in working with older people across care systems to improve independent and safe use of medicines while addressing challenges around overprescribing.
Responsibilities
- Providing direct patient care
- Conducting holistic patient-centered structured medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy and adherence concerns, in older people and those with multiple long-term conditions
- Visiting patients both in the hospital and home setting as an integrated approach as part of existing pathways of medicines support in Lewisham and further evolving models of Neighbourhood Care
- Working closely with members of the MDT to coordinate medicines-related aspects of care across both health and social care interfaces
Requirements
- Interest in older people
- Strong communication skills
- Enthusiasm for working as part of a multidisciplinary approach care
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About the Service
The award-winning LIMOS service provides a formal pathway for the referral of patients with medicine-related problems for assessment, support, and follow-up by a specialist pharmacy team, working across primary and secondary, and health and social care interfaces. Joint policies around medicines support across health have enabled a collaborative approach to care across the pharmacy and wider workforce.
Development Opportunities
- Being supported by a network of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians
- Opportunity to work in the primary care and interface setting, maintaining strong links with pharmacy colleagues in both secondary and community settings
- Ability to access continuing professional development via peer learning events with pharmacy professionals within both secondary care and community settings
Location
- The postholder would work across the Borough, delivering care to an allocated neighborhood and be based at either South Lewisham Health Centre or University Hospital Lewisham
Working Arrangements
- Regular home working is not included within this role
- Some hybrid working may be required when working in the community setting
Application Information
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Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Initiatives
Our People Are Our Greatest Asset. When We Feel Supported And Happy At Work, This Positivity Reaches Those Very People We Are Here For, The Patients. Engaged Employees Perform At Their Best And Our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Initiatives Contribute To Cultivate a Culture Of Engagement. We Have Four Staff Networks, a Corporate EDI Team And a Suite Of Programmes And Events Which Aim To Insert The 5 Aspirations
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Julia Parascandolo
- Job title: Principal Pharmacist - CHS/LIMOS
- Email address: julia.parascandolo@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07387 531 240
Alternatively contact:
- Name: Kath Howes
- Job title: Lead Pharmacist LIMOS
- Email address: Katherine.howes@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07789271074
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