Clinical Pharmacist AfC 8A/B

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Duties and Responsibilities:-

• Patient facing medicines support - face to face structured medication review.
• Medication review - medication review with patients with multi-morbidity and polypharmacy.
• Risk stratification - design, develop and implement computer search to identify cohort of patients at high risk of harm from medicines.
• Long term conditions - review patients with long term conditions.  Review the need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and support with medicines taking.
• Unplanned hospital admissions - Identify patients most likely to be at risk of hospital admission.  Manage medicines related risk for readmission and patient harm.
• Repeat prescribing- manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process.
• Triage - ensure patients are referred to the most appropriate clinician for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate time frame.
• Medicines safety and quality improvement- identify and provide leadership on areas of prescribing requiring improvement.
• Care Home medication reviews - manage own caseload of care home residents.  Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients with multi-morbidity and polypharmacy. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
• Domiciliary clinical medication review - manage own caseload of vulnerable housebound patients at risk of hospital admission and harm from poor use of medicines.
• Service development - Develop and manage new services that are built around new medicines or NICE guidance.
• Cost saving programmes - make recommendations for and manage Pharmacy Technicians to make changes to medicines to save on medicine costs.
• Management of medicines at discharge from hospital - to reconcile medicines following discharge from hospital, intermediate care and into care homes.  
• Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations.
• Medicines safety - manage MHRA alerts, product withdrawals.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Clinical diploma
• Independent prescriber
• Minimum 3 years post qualification experience

Desirable

• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Independent prescriber

Experience

Essential

• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidenced based healthcare
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (eg patients)
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
• Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines

Desirable

• Previous experience of working in Primary Care

Qualities

Essential

• Adaptable
• Self motivated

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Ribbleton Medical Centre

Address

243 Ribbleton Avenue

Ribbleton

Preston

PR2 6RD

Employer's website

https://www.ribbletonmedicalcentre.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)