Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

- Contribute to the delivery of effective daily processes for the transfer of care between hospitals and GPs including effective signposting, recommendation of medication changes and communication accordingly.

- Support colleagues and patients with medication queries and monitoring.

- Use structured medication reviews to support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care.

- Undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy.

- Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement.

- Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists, liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation clinics.

- Contribute to the General Practice quality and outcomes framework (QOF) and enhanced services.

- Specifically, contribute to the Quality Improvement Schemes (QIS) for practices (e.g. to reduce prescribing spend and unplanned admissions)

- Work with general practice teams to ensure that practices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

- Take a lead role in some aspects of supporting further integration of General Practice with other healthcare teams to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload.

- Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across Primary Care Networks and the wider health and social care system

- Take responsibility for the care management of patients with some of the chronic diseases.

- Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).

- Be prescribers, or committed to completing training to become prescribers.

The above list of duties is not exhaustive and may be subject to change as deemed necessary

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the GPC.

Experience

Essential

• Working towards independent prescribing qualification.
• Experience of common acute and long-term conditions.
• Strong problem solver.
• Works effectively independently.
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
• Rigorous in following legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies and codes of conduct.
• Committed to continuous professional development.
• Ability to apply research evidence base into the workplace.
• Excellent verbal communication skills.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• IT literate.

Desirable

• More than 2 years experience as a pharmacist.
• Independent prescriber.
• Experience of medication reviews relevant in General Practice.
• Track record of improving work processes.
• Previous experience of working in a GP surgery.
• Up to date knowledge of CQC regulations in General Practice.
• Good understanding and history of quality improvement work through audit.
• User of TPP SystmOne.

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

Witterings Medical Centre

Address

Cakeham Road

East Wittering

Chichester

West Sussex

PO20 8BH

Employer's website

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