Lead Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Objectives:

• Provide pro-active leadership on medicines and prescribing systems to the practice clinical pharmacy team, patients, and their carers
• Develop and deliver patient facing services and clinics which improve patient outcomes, reflect the needs of the practice population and shift workload from other disciplines
• Deliver high quality medication reviews and develop bespoke medicines treatment plans for patients (particularly the elderly, complex patients, and those at high risk of admission)
• Improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education to improve performance against NICE standards, prescribing guidance, and other clinical standards
• Develop yourself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training, and service redesign activities
• Deliver training, mentoring and guidance to other clinicians and staff on medicines issues

Patient Facing Clinical Services & Care

• Work in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas
• Take responsibility for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple long-term conditions (in particular COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP - Stopping Over Medication Programme)
• Prescribe acute and repeat medication for patient need within areas of competency

Medicines Optimisation Systems

• Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation. Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care
• Oversee system for reconciliation of medicines from outpatient and discharge letters and support safe transfer of care through liaison with hospital and community colleagues
• Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties) and anticoagulation

Safety

• Report medicines related incidents, contribute to investigations and root cause analyses
• Participate in serious incident investigations and multidisciplinary case reviews
• Report Adverse Drug Reactions and promote reporting by MDT
• Action and respond to Drug Safety Alerts and other safety cascades.

Training, Education & Information

• Develop and deliver education sessions and training to clinical and non-clinical staff on medicines issues
• Provide ad-hoc medicines advice to doctors and other clinicians
• Assess emergent clinical evidence and develop strategies for implementation in practice
• Horizon scan for new drugs and provide information to the MDT on their introduction
• Provide advice on cost effective prescribing and supply issues
• Provide teaching and support to medical students, GP trainees and other trainee healthcare professionals
• Always seek to develop own knowledge and understanding

Quality

• Provide leadership on medicines safety compliance with CQC and other professional standards
• Promote a culture of constant improvement and excellence
• Conduct regular clinical audits and other improvement activities
• Assess own performance regularly and make suggestions of how to improve personal and team performance

Health & Safety

• Assist in promoting and maintaining your own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Practice Health and Safety policy. Ensure that any hazards in your working area are reported immediately to your line manager.

Performance/Professional Development

Participate in:

• Training sessions to ensure administrative, clinical and computer skills are kept up to date with current technology and practice.
• Regular appraisal meetings.
• Regular team meetings.
• Comply with the General Pharmaceutical Council Re-validation process

Working with Patients

• Work in partnership with our patients to help them achieve better health outcomes.
• Offer a polite, friendly, and efficient level of customer service to all our patients.
• Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines while helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients in the network and help in tackling inequalities.

Feedback

• Listen to feedback from patients and colleagues whether this is a complaint, comment, or compliment and if it cannot be dealt with immediately, ensure it is reported to a member of the Practice Management Team.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• An undergraduate Masters Degree or equivalent in Pharmacy.
• Membership as practising pharmacist with The General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Commitment towards continuing professional development in accordance with requirements of The General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Pharmacist independent prescriber registered with The General Pharmaceutical Council.

Desirable

• Post-graduate qualification to Diploma or Masters level in a recognised area of pharmacy practice or advanced clinical practice.

Experience

Essential

• Experience in a leadership role.
• Experience working in a primary care setting.
• Knowledge of medicines schemes such as MOF and Eclipse.

Desirable

• Experience using EMIS clinical system

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Demonstrable leadership skills.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency using computer systems such as Accurx and Microsoft.

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

Market Harborough & Bosworth Partnership

Address

67 Coventry Road

Market Harborough

Leicestershire

LE16 9BX

Employer's website

https://www.mh-bp.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)