Senior Lead Pharmacist

Job responsibilities

Patient facing Clinical Medication Review:

Undertake by means of face-to-face clinics, domiciliary visits, telephone and virtual medication review.

Perform Structured Medication reviews for patients on both single medications, and polypharmacy patients.

Review the indication for each medicine, compliance, monitoring arrangements and ensure patients get optimal benefit from their medication

Make appropriate recommendations as needed

Review and completion of shared care agreements

Partake in an on-call pharmacy rota in hours, addressing on the day phone calls, queries and providing medicines support to the duty clinical team.

Undertake changes to patients medication from hospital discharge and clinic letters.

Undertake clinical drug reconciliation for new patients registered with the practice

Provide a comprehensive prescribing service to care homes in conjunction with care home MDT and named staff for each care home

To provide services linked to prescribing that improve patient access

Medicine information to practice staff and patients:

Handle relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines.

Repeat prescribing:

Assist GP practices with the implementation and delivery of their repeat prescribing policy

Service development:

Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services linked to medicines management (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).

Please see attached job description for more information on the role and responsibilities.

Other job locations:

Peach Street Liverpool L69 7ZL

26 Argyle Street Liverpool L1 5DL

155 Edge Lane Edge Hill Liverpool L7 2PF

2 Vauxhall Road Liverpool L3 2BG

Bentley Road Liverpool L8 0SY

Although we allow for some remote working (depending on the role) we want to make you aware that you will need to be based on-site in one of the Practices to carry out your duties. We would also like to state that you will need to reside in Liverpool (or within the near vicinity).

We require applicants whose native language is not English to demonstrate their competence in the English language. This can be demonstrated by:

- Providing Certification of English proficiency

If you are successful and are registered with any of the Brownlow or CLPCN sites you are required to change practices and this will be a stipulate of employment.

Skills

Essential

• Ability to work on own initiative
• Ability to work with colleagues and services users in a non-judgemental manner
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively communicate with patients and outside agencies
• Excellent organisational skills
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
• Ability to work to deadlines
• Ability to work flexibly
• Commitment to equal opportunities
• Full Driving License and access to a vehicle

Qualifications

Essential

• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
• Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent
• Specialist knowledge acquired through post- graduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
• Independent Prescriber

Desirable

• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 4 years post- qualification experience
• 2 years experience in primary care
• An appreciation of the nature of general practice
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
• Good IT skills, including previous experience of EMIS web and EPS systems
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
• Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
• Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
• Work effectively independently and as a team member
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision

Desirable

• Evidence of Leadership within a team
• Evidence of involvement in systems change and policy development
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence- based healthcare
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)
• Produce timely and informative reports

Other Requirements

Essential

• Self-Motivation
• Adaptable
• In date CRB
• Safeguarding adult and children level three
• Immunisation status
• Basic life support training
• Full Driving License
• Information Governance toolkit completion

Desirable

• Information Governance toolkit completion

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).