Job at a glance
Thank you for your interest in this post for as a Care Home Practice Foundation Pharmacist in the Care Home GP Practice. The Care Home GP Practice is part of Ealing Community Partners (ECP) and provides an enhanced primary care service to Care Homes (Nursing and Residential) across Ealing. The team includes GPs, Pharmacists, Nurses, Advanced Practitioners and Administrators and the service is provided 8am - 8pm 7 days per week.
The service works closely with colleagues across ECP and Ealing's Borough Based Partnership teams as well as Care Home providers with the aim of providing an integrated approach to the care available to the residents. The service has transferred to the Trust, from a previous subcontracted arrangement, and this will give the opportunity to explore the current and future delivery of the service via a transformation programme.
Main duties of the job The ECP Care Home GP Practice provides enhanced primary care services for over 1000 patients in nursing homes and care homes in the borough of Ealing. The post holder is a pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, working as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. The post holder will assist in areas of patient care and chronic disease management within the care home practice, undertaking clinical medication reviews to manage patients especially for polypharmacy, older people, residential and nursing home residents with multiple co-morbidities.
The post holder will provide support to pharmacy team and care home general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will help support the repeat prescriptions system, deal with acute prescription requests, medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing advice on clinical medicines issues while addressing both public and social care needs of patients in primary care.
The post holder will provide clinical advice on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services. West London NHS Trust is one of the most diverse healthcare providers in the UK, delivering a range of mental health and physical healthcare and community services. The Trust runs Broadmoor Hospital, one of three high secure hospitals in the country, with an international reputation.
Our high secure services care for patients from South of England and we provide low and medium secure services across eight London boroughs. The Trust also provides mental and physical healthcare in three London boroughs (Ealing, Hounslow and Hammersmith & Fulham). We employ over 5,000 staff, of whom 59% are BME. Our turnover for 2024-25 is over £500m. The Trust is rated as 'Good' overallby the Care Quality Commission.
Forensic services are rated as 'Outstanding'. The Trust is an established partner and contributor in the development of the evolving North West London Integrated Care System and the Integrated Care Board. The Trust leads the NW London Children and Adolescent Mental Health provider collaborative.