Clinical Pharmacist

Omnia Practice

The closing date is 31 December 2024

Job summary

**PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY**

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the position of Clinical Pharmacist to join our welcoming and friendly team at Omnia Medical Practice, a forward thinking practice based in the East of Birmingham.

We are looking to employ an experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our existing team on a full time basis to help us expand and develop our chronic LTC management.

The successful candidate will be joining a team of; 7 Partners, 3 Salaried GPs, 1 Pharmacist, 1 ANP, 3 Physician Associates, 3 Nurses and 4 HCAs.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job The post holder is a pharmacy technician registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council. They are required to act within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a multi-disciplinary team within general practice and a Primary Care Network (PCN). The post holder will contribute to improving prescribing practice, patient care and deliver the Directed Enhanced Service PCN prescribing agenda. This includes improving repeat prescribing processes in General Practices within the PCN, promoting digitalisation, reducing medicines waste and minimising clinical risk associated with medicines taking. The post holder will help patients to get the best from their medicines, operating within clear protocols and guidance. They will be responsible for encouraging the development of better understanding of the principles of medicines optimisation throughout the practice. The post holder will work with all sectors of pharmacy across the health system to improve population health. Demonstrating improvement in patient outcomes and working to reduce health inequalities across the practice contributing to improving the efficiency of general practice and delivering a best in class service.

About us

We serve approximately 17000 socially and culturally diverse patients. We work from a large modern purpose build facility offering a range of services caring for the needs of our patients which extends beyond traditional GP healthcare. Our Community Hub, situated in reception was set up with our patients overall wellbeing in mind. It offers a place to come together and enjoy shared interests and hobbies on a weekly basis with activities ranging from walking, knitting and gardening to bicycle tuition.

We operate a nationally recognised social prescribing service and have high standing in our locality.

The practice is made up of a large family of professionals comprising of GPs, Nurses, HCAs, TNA, a Pharmacist, Physiotherapist and our existing PA's. In addition we have an experienced management and administration team who work together with the shared aim of providing excellent patient care to all of our patients. This is a shared vision for both the partners and the staff of the practice.

Date posted

28 November 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

A1738-24-0011

Job locations

73 Yardley Green Road

Bordesley Green

Birmingham

B9 5PU

Job description

Job responsibilities

The clinical pharmacist in a general practice organisation has the following key responsibilities in relation to delivering health services.

There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels.

A Clinical Pharmacist will:

Assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways) or make necessary referrals to other members of the primary care team

Be a prescriber, or completing training to become a prescriber, and work with and alongside the general practice team

Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the organisation and to help in tackling inequalities

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

Have a leadership role in supporting further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) 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 the wider health and social care system

Consult patients within defined levels of competence and independently prescribe acute and repeat medication

Receive referrals and directed patients from triage services and other clinicians

Receive and resolve medicines queries from patients and other staff

Deliver long term condition clinics and home visits, particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes, and prescribe accordingly

Review medications for newly registered patients

Improve patient and carer understanding of confidence in and compliance with their medication

To maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation

Encourage cost-effective prescribing throughout the organisation

Organise and oversee the organisations medicines optimisation systems, including the repeat prescribing and medication review systems

Secondary Responsibilities;

Support delivery of QOF, incentive schemes, QIPP and other quality or cost effectiveness initiatives

Agree and review prescribing formularies and protocols, and monitor compliance levels

Improve the data quality of medicines records and linking to conditions

Support virtual and remote models of consultation and support, including e-consultations, remote medication review, and telehealth and telemedicine

Undertake any tasks consistent with the level of the post and the scope of the role, ensuring that work is delivered in a timely and effective manner