Senior Clinical Pharmacist Diabetes Neighbourhood Health Programme

The Specialist Pharmacist (Band 8a) is the operational medicines lead within the Tier 2 Neighbourhood Support Team. Responsibilities include independent prescribing across the injectable formulary insulin and subcutaneous GLP-1 initiation, titration and ongoing management, and use of CGM and Flash data for titration. The post delivers complex medicines optimisation in cardio-renal-metabolic multimorbidity, including CKD stages 3b to 5, heart failure, SGLT2i optimisation, polypharmacy review and deprescribing, psychotropic-metabolic review, hypoglycaemia causation and steroid-induced hyperglycaemia management.

The post-holder contributes to the Tier 2 MDT and the weekly Tier 3 MDT, provides Advice and Guidance to primary care within 24-hour urgent and one-week routine SLAs, leads joint clinics with Practice Diabetes Leads, delivers TARGET education, contributes to medicines safety and quality improvement, and supports supervision and workforce development. Please see attached job description for more detail.