Job summary
The position requires a qualified pharmacist with an independent
prescribing qualification, who will operate within their professional limits as
a member of a multidisciplinary team
This position is up to 25 hours per week, working days negotiable
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will collaborate closely with the GP and other
practice clinical and non-clinical staff, playing a key role in supporting GPs
and the broader primary care team to provide safe and effective care. They will
provide medication-related patient services, including direct patient care.
This is an exciting position which will require an innovative and
visionary Clinical Pharmacist. The successful applicant will need to be
self-motivated and able to work on their own, You will have excellent
organisational, interpersonal and communication skills together with a good
working knowledge of primary care and the challenges facing patient care in the
NHS.
About us
The
Bradford Moor Practice is in the heart of BD3 and is a small family run GP
surgery.Our patients health and wellbeing will always be our main
priority and our teamwork veryhard to make sure that we provide
patients with the highest level of care possible.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Patient-facing long-term condition clinics
- Consult with patients who have one or more medical conditions that require medication optimization e.g., COPD, asthma, hypertension.
- Review the ongoing necessity of each medication, assess monitoring needs, and provide support to patients in managing their medications, ensuring they achieve the best outcomes from their treatments i.e., medication optimization.
- Provide GPs with recommendations for medication improvements.
- Conduct clinical medication reviews with patients and offer recommendations to the senior clinical pharmacist, nurses, and/or GP regarding prescribing and monitoring.
- Respond to medicine-related inquiries from GPs, practice staff, other healthcare teams e.g., community pharmacy, and patients.
- Follow up with patients to monitor the effects of any changes.
- Review the use of medications commonly linked to unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audits and individual patient reviews.
- Implement changes to medications in response to MHRA alerts, product withdrawals, and other local and national guidelines.
- Monitor practice prescribing in accordance with the local formulary and recommend to GPs which medications should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or be subject to shared care (amber drugs).
- Audit the practices compliance with NICE technology assessment guidance.
- Comply with safeguarding policies and support the commitment to promoting welfare.
- Comply with all Bradford Moor Practice policies and stay informed about any changes.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Patient-facing long-term condition clinics
- Consult with patients who have one or more medical conditions that require medication optimization e.g., COPD, asthma, hypertension.
- Review the ongoing necessity of each medication, assess monitoring needs, and provide support to patients in managing their medications, ensuring they achieve the best outcomes from their treatments i.e., medication optimization.
- Provide GPs with recommendations for medication improvements.
- Conduct clinical medication reviews with patients and offer recommendations to the senior clinical pharmacist, nurses, and/or GP regarding prescribing and monitoring.
- Respond to medicine-related inquiries from GPs, practice staff, other healthcare teams e.g., community pharmacy, and patients.
- Follow up with patients to monitor the effects of any changes.
- Review the use of medications commonly linked to unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audits and individual patient reviews.
- Implement changes to medications in response to MHRA alerts, product withdrawals, and other local and national guidelines.
- Monitor practice prescribing in accordance with the local formulary and recommend to GPs which medications should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or be subject to shared care (amber drugs).
- Audit the practices compliance with NICE technology assessment guidance.
- Comply with safeguarding policies and support the commitment to promoting welfare.
- Comply with all Bradford Moor Practice policies and stay informed about any changes.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrates an understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice.
- Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management
- Ability to convey complex and sensitive information clearly to various audiences, such as patients
- Proficient IT skills
- Capable of obtaining and analyzing complex technical information
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Produce timely and informative reports
- Work effectively both independently and as a team member
- Self-motivated
- Competent at medication reviews, especially long term conditions
- Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams and community groups
Professional Registration
Essential
- Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable
- Membership Primary Care Pharmacy Association (PCPA)
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Other
Essential
- Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions
- Adaptable
- Work effectively independently and as a team player
- Safeguarding and other mandatory training
- Access to own transport
- Immunisation status
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional knowledge acquired through vocational masters degree in pharmacy (4 years) plus 1 year pre-registration training
- Extensive knowledge of medicines optimisation, acquired through post graduate clinical pharmacy diploma or equivalent experience or training.
- Holds an independent prescribing qualification
Desirable
- Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
- Successful completion of the CPPE General Practice Pharmacist Training Pathway
Skills, Knowledge and Personal Qualities
Essential
- Commitment to reducing health inequalities and proactively working to reach people from all communities. Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social, economic and environmental factors and their impact on communities
- Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations, e.g. ICBs)
- Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary
- Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk when working with individuals
- Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Able to finish work tasks
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships and to promote collaborative practice with all colleagues
- Demonstrates personal accountability, emotional resilience and works well under pressure
- Ability to organise, plan and prioritise on own initiative, including when under pressure and meeting deadlines
- High level of written and oral communication skills
- Ability to work flexibly and enthusiastically within a team or on own initiative
- Knowledge of and ability to work to policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and health and safety
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
Desirable
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrates an understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice.
- Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management
- Ability to convey complex and sensitive information clearly to various audiences, such as patients
- Proficient IT skills
- Capable of obtaining and analyzing complex technical information
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Produce timely and informative reports
- Work effectively both independently and as a team member
- Self-motivated
- Competent at medication reviews, especially long term conditions
- Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams and community groups
Professional Registration
Essential
- Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable
- Membership Primary Care Pharmacy Association (PCPA)
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Other
Essential
- Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions
- Adaptable
- Work effectively independently and as a team player
- Safeguarding and other mandatory training
- Access to own transport
- Immunisation status
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional knowledge acquired through vocational masters degree in pharmacy (4 years) plus 1 year pre-registration training
- Extensive knowledge of medicines optimisation, acquired through post graduate clinical pharmacy diploma or equivalent experience or training.
- Holds an independent prescribing qualification
Desirable
- Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
- Successful completion of the CPPE General Practice Pharmacist Training Pathway
Skills, Knowledge and Personal Qualities
Essential
- Commitment to reducing health inequalities and proactively working to reach people from all communities. Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social, economic and environmental factors and their impact on communities
- Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations, e.g. ICBs)
- Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary
- Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk when working with individuals
- Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
- Able to finish work tasks
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships and to promote collaborative practice with all colleagues
- Demonstrates personal accountability, emotional resilience and works well under pressure
- Ability to organise, plan and prioritise on own initiative, including when under pressure and meeting deadlines
- High level of written and oral communication skills
- Ability to work flexibly and enthusiastically within a team or on own initiative
- Knowledge of and ability to work to policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and health and safety
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
Desirable
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
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).
Additional information
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).
