Clinical Practice Pharmacist

Job responsibilities

Job responsibilities

The post holder is an experienced clinical pharmacist ideally with previous experience of working in Primary Care, who acting within their professional boundaries and as part of the wider clinical team, will develop and manage medicine management services within the practice.

Longterm condition clinics - See patients in multimorbidity clinics and in partnership with primary healthcare colleagues and implement improvements to patients medicines, including de-prescribing. Run own long-term condition clinics where responsible for prescribing as an independent prescriber for conditions where medicines have a large component.

Differential / undeferential diagnosis - Manage own case load for patients and diagnosis of people with long term and or acute, common conditions or ailments.

Perform medication review of patients with polypharmacy especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities.

Managing patients as referred as part of the practices total triage and Care Navigation systems and processes.

Telephone and patient facing medicines support.

Medicine information to practice staff and patients.

Contractual targets - contribute as appropriate, to various medicines related elements in national and local contracts such as QOF, PCN DES and ICB schemes of work.

Management of medicines at discharge from hospital.

Medication reviews including Care Home and Domiciliary reviews.

Medicine information to practice staff and patients.

Unplanned hospital admissions - identify cohorts of patients most likely to be at risk of an unplanned admission and readmissions from medicines. Work with case managers, multidisciplinary health and social care review teams, hospital colleagues and virtual ward teams to manage medicines-related risk for readmission and patient harm.

Risk stratification contribute to design, development and implementation of computer searches to identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines. Working with patients and the primary care team to minimise risks through medicines optimisation.

Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations.

Medicines quality improvement.

Service development.

Repeat prescribing - Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates.

Care Quality Commission, governance and regulation working with the wider clinical and management teams to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. Undertake risk assessment and management and ensure compliance with medicines legislation.

Medicines safety contribute to identification of national and local policy and guidance that affects patient safety through the use of medicines, including MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and emerging evidence form clinical trials.

Training and supervision contribute to the provision of education and training to the primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation. Provide training to visiting medical, nursing, pharmacy, and other healthcare students where appropriate. Engage with activities required for own clinical supervision.

Collaborative working - Develop close working relationships with the practice team and wider organisations, understanding their role and contribution to patient services and experience.

The post holder will contribute to and participate in local ICB projects and schemes of work, quality improvement and clinical audit.

See attached Job Description for full details.

Knowledge, Skills and Attributes

Essential

• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare;
• An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices;
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing;
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients);
• Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions;
• Good IT skills;
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information;
• Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate;
• Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines;
• Produce timely and informative reports;
• Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/ persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers;
• Work effectively independently and as a team member;
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision;

Desirable

• Familiar with Emis Web clinical software

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience.

Desirable

• Experience of working in Primary Care;
• Independent Prescribing experience gained within primary care;

Qualifications

Essential

• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)

Desirable

• Membership of the RPS;
• A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society;
• Specialist knowledge acquired through post- graduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience;
• Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining an independent prescribing qualification;

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).