Dermatology Pharmacist; Hybrid

DMC have an exciting opportunity for a Dermatology Pharmacist to support our services. You will be responsible for accurately and safely providing necessary care to patients engaging with the service in the organisation. You will maintain key relationships with co-workers and other health care professionals across the organisation to ensure an effective service. The Dermatology Pharmacist is an integral part of the team, using and sharing Pharmacy expertise to support the Dermatology service in effective medicines management and optimal patient care.

Working alongside medical professionals and other clinicians supporting patients prescribing and medicines management governance. You will be responsible to review the prescribing for each contract and investigate any high risk drugs being prescribed. You will review local Dermatology formularies in each ICB DMC work in, to ensure our Dermatologists are following local guidelines on emollients and prescribing.

• Provide clinical leadership for the safe, effective and cost-efficient management of biologic and high-cost medicines, ensuring prescribing and monitoring is aligned to local ICB policies, NICE guidance, Blueteq requirements (where applicable), and DMC governance procedures.
• Clinical leadership on meds optimisation
• Working with the Dermatology Operations Team to ensure systems and
• processes are in place to ensure prescribing is in line with guidelines and contract specification requirements, review formulary on TPP
• Regularly connecting and working with pharmacy lead counterparts at Trusts and the ICB to ensure partnership working in medicines management
• Providing pharmaceutical knowledge and support during mobilisations and demobilisation of contracts and services
• Regularly monitoring prescribing activities and working with the Finance team to ensure costs are in line with budgeted expectations
• Risk stratification
• Supporting service with prescription and medication queries
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of principles of evidence-based healthcare
• Medicine Management (producing report for medicine usage, Medicine Governance)
• Reviewing Formulary
• Specific Medicine Annual Audits - prescribing Audits

DMC Healthcare is a leading independent provider of primary care, consultant-led dermatology, radiology reporting, in-sourced routine endoscopy services and MSK community services to the NHS. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to achieve healthier outcomes. Firmly rooted in the NHS and dedicated to excellent patient care for nearly 55 years, DMC Healthcare currently works with 30+ NHS organisations and other partners, treating over 100,000 patients each year.

With NHS waiting list pressures, workforce shortages and unprecedented demand, we want to help. We support capacity deficits with a firm eye on quality and robust clinical governance.