Specialist Pharmacist -EHCH W / Haringey

The Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH) West Haringey service, delivered by Whittington Health, provides proactive, multidisciplinary healthcare support to residents living in care homes across West Haringey. The service is designed to improve residents' health, wellbeing, and quality of life by delivering high-quality, personalised healthcare within care home settings and reducing avoidable hospital admissions.

The EHCH model brings together a multidisciplinary team that includes a Community Matron, Consultant Geriatrician, Pharmacist, Trusted Assessor (Nurse), Learning Disability Community Matron, and administrative support staff. The team works closely with GP practices, care home staff, residents, families, and other healthcare professionals to provide coordinated and holistic care.

The service supports residents in West Haringey care homes, including Spring Lane, The Meadow, Alexandra Park, and Fairview, while also working collaboratively with learning disability and mental health services across Haringey.

The overall aim of the EHCH West Haringey service is to ensure residents receive the right care, at the right time, in the right place, promoting independence, enhancing quality of life, reducing health inequalities, and preventing unnecessary hospital attendances and admissions., The Pharmacist will support medication reviews and optimisation for those who meet the referral criteria face to face at the residential homes.

A medication review will involve the completion of an SMR tailored to the needs of the resident with their involvement. The EHCH Pharmacist will proactively promote safe and evidence-based prescribing with the nominated general practitioners.

The EHCH Pharmacist will be involved in de-prescribing where required, ensuring safe and effective reduction of stopping inappropriate medicines together with the allocated GP's

The Pharmacist will support local care partners to provide care to elderly patients in community and engage in new projects. The pharmacist will participate in audits, to implement cost-effectiveness.

To work in collaboration with the GPs, consultant geriatricians and the wider multidisciplinary team to provide holistic medication reviews.

To support local care partners (such as GP federations, Primary Care Networks and community pharmacy colleagues) provide care to elderly patients in the care homes, if required.

Demonstration of an understanding of the specific clinical aspects of medicines management, in this clinical frailty speciality.

To support implementation of national guidance in medicines management for older people in the care homes with complex pharmaceutical care needs.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.