Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Summary:

Principal Responsibilities:

Repeat prescribing

Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates; make necessary changes as an independent prescriber, and ensure patients are booked in for necessary monitoring tests where required.

Management of medicines at discharge from hospital/letters from consultants

Using DOCMAN, reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals/letters from hospital/intermediate care/care homes; identify and rectify unexplained changes; manage these changes without referral to the GP and where necessary perform a clinical medication review.

Set up and manage systems to ensure appropriate medicines review highrisk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).

Telephone and patient facing medicines support

Provide a telephone support for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.

Hold clinics for patients requiring face-to-face clinical medication reviews (CMRs) i.e. a review of the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicine taking.

Medication review

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients with multi-morbidity and polypharmacy and implement own prescribing changes (as an independent prescriber) and order relevant monitoring tests.

Care Quality Commission

Provide support to the practice manager and GPs to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

Cost saving programmes

Make recommendations for and make changes to medicines (switches) designed to save on medicine costs where a medicine or product with lower acquisition cost is now available.

Medicine information to practice staff and patients

Answers all medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff and patients with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.

Medicines quality improvement

Identify and provide leadership on areas of prescribing requiring improvement. Either conduct own audits and improvement projects or work with colleagues such as GP registrars. Present results and provide leadership on suggested change. Contribute to national and local research initiatives.

Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations

Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs). Liaise directly with hospital colleagues where prescribing needs to be returned to specialists.

Medicines safety

Horizon scan to identify 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.

Manage the process of implementing changes to medicines and guidance for practitioners.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
• Minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience.
• 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
• Independent Prescriber
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing

Desirable

• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm)
• Clinical diploma

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience.
• 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

Desirable

• Experience of involvement of team work in a general practice team.

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

The Spinney Medical Centre

Address

23 Whittle Street

Toll Bar

St Helens

Merseyside

WA10 3EE

Employer's website

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