Job summary
We
are looking for an experienced clinical pharmacist, to work full time, based
within the practice, alongside our existing pharmacy team. This is a key role,
intended to support the delivery of the pharmacist role in primary care ensuring
that we continue to provide high quality, accessible and responsive services
for our patients and pharmaceutical advice to our wider healthcare team.
The
ideal candidate will work collaboratively with our lead pharmacist to provide
leadership and support to clinical pharmacists and health care professionals in
training at the practice, including foundation pharmacists and trainee prescribers.
The role will include both patient facing and audit-based activities.
The
successful candidate will have experience working autonomously across a broad
range of clinical areas in general practice.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for delivering
direct patient care and work with the wider practice team to improve safety and
quality. The role will be focused on
stable clinical conditions, releasing their GP colleagues to deal with complex
or acute illnesses. You will have or develop specialist pharmaceutical
skills and knowledge tailored to local primary care needs that will help
practices deliver on agreed priorities and improve outcomes.
About us
We are a large, dynamic, friendly practice consisting of 4 Partners, 14 Salaried GPs, 5 Clinical Pharmacists, 2 Practice Nurses, 2 HCAs, 3 Phlebotomists & 2 Social Prescribers. We serve 25,000 patients with a focus on clinical excellence and engagement with the modern NHS. Being located adjacent to the University of Leicester we do have a large student population.
We have a very strong team ethos and are looking for a committed and enthusiastic Clinical Pharmacist who can bring their own valuable knowledge and skills to our Practice. We are a teaching Practice with a regular allocation of trainees, we also demonstrate strong performance in QOF, CQC and we play a lead role within our PCN.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The following are the core responsibilities of the
Clinical Pharmacist. There may be on occasion, a requirement to carry out other
tasks.
- To work under the day-to-day management of the Lead Pharmacist and with
guidance and oversight from GP practice mentors and clinical leads; to support
the practice and patients with your pharmaceutical expertise, to optimise the
use of medicines, deliver Long Term Conditions management and support interface
communications between primary, secondary and other care settings to deliver
improved care and patient outcomes, promoting safety, patient engagement and
patient self-management; to do this in a manner that is integrated with the
primary health care teams so as to reduce the workload on GPs, including
referrals to community pharmacy for New Medicines Service (NMS) and Community
Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS)/Pharmacy First.
- To undertake level 2 and level 3 reviews of medicines use and apply
medicines optimisation principles. To review medication requests and repeat
prescriptions and discharge summaries on behalf of the practices, working with
GP staff to ensure safe, appropriate systems are operating.
- To provide pharmaceutical advice and expertise to other prescribers and
practitioners in our practices. To work
closely with the GPs, nurses and other healthcare staff in our practices to
resolve day-to-day medicines issues through the application of pharmaceutical
knowledge.
- To offer patient-facing and person-centred consultations; to manage a
caseload of patients within a multidisciplinary general practice team, offering
outcome-focused medication review and prescribing to manage patients where
medicines use needs to be optimised e.g., single condition with sub-optimal
outcomes, compliance issues, and/or high-risk medicines and/or high risk or
frail patients.
- To deliver clinics via patient appointments or as drop-in services;
focus on those conditions that are prioritised by the practice, acting in
partnership with practice nurses, GPs and with the other pharmacists in the
team to ensure that specialist and highly specialist skills are used to best
effect for our patients and our practices.
- To use technology e.g., smart phone apps to enable you to engage and
empower patients and their carers, and by doing so scaleup the reach that you,
other pharmacists and our practices can have to promote effective self-care and
patient empowerment.
- To make effective use of information from practice systems e.g., through
searches and audit, to improve the health of the population, managing resources
effectively including your own time, to relieve pressure on the practice
workforce.
- To provide support and advice for GPs and practice nurses, including
advanced practitioners on the use of medicines and new medicines and
medicines-use policies e.g., shared care, new pathways of care as new drugs are
accepted for GP prescribing and to support the work of the practice, to develop
and/or implement new models of care.
- To work with community pharmacists and local pharmacists to improve
medicines management at the interface, on admission and particularly at
discharge and where high-risk medicines are involved, including shared-care
issues acting on behalf of the practice.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The following are the core responsibilities of the
Clinical Pharmacist. There may be on occasion, a requirement to carry out other
tasks.
- To work under the day-to-day management of the Lead Pharmacist and with
guidance and oversight from GP practice mentors and clinical leads; to support
the practice and patients with your pharmaceutical expertise, to optimise the
use of medicines, deliver Long Term Conditions management and support interface
communications between primary, secondary and other care settings to deliver
improved care and patient outcomes, promoting safety, patient engagement and
patient self-management; to do this in a manner that is integrated with the
primary health care teams so as to reduce the workload on GPs, including
referrals to community pharmacy for New Medicines Service (NMS) and Community
Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS)/Pharmacy First.
- To undertake level 2 and level 3 reviews of medicines use and apply
medicines optimisation principles. To review medication requests and repeat
prescriptions and discharge summaries on behalf of the practices, working with
GP staff to ensure safe, appropriate systems are operating.
- To provide pharmaceutical advice and expertise to other prescribers and
practitioners in our practices. To work
closely with the GPs, nurses and other healthcare staff in our practices to
resolve day-to-day medicines issues through the application of pharmaceutical
knowledge.
- To offer patient-facing and person-centred consultations; to manage a
caseload of patients within a multidisciplinary general practice team, offering
outcome-focused medication review and prescribing to manage patients where
medicines use needs to be optimised e.g., single condition with sub-optimal
outcomes, compliance issues, and/or high-risk medicines and/or high risk or
frail patients.
- To deliver clinics via patient appointments or as drop-in services;
focus on those conditions that are prioritised by the practice, acting in
partnership with practice nurses, GPs and with the other pharmacists in the
team to ensure that specialist and highly specialist skills are used to best
effect for our patients and our practices.
- To use technology e.g., smart phone apps to enable you to engage and
empower patients and their carers, and by doing so scaleup the reach that you,
other pharmacists and our practices can have to promote effective self-care and
patient empowerment.
- To make effective use of information from practice systems e.g., through
searches and audit, to improve the health of the population, managing resources
effectively including your own time, to relieve pressure on the practice
workforce.
- To provide support and advice for GPs and practice nurses, including
advanced practitioners on the use of medicines and new medicines and
medicines-use policies e.g., shared care, new pathways of care as new drugs are
accepted for GP prescribing and to support the work of the practice, to develop
and/or implement new models of care.
- To work with community pharmacists and local pharmacists to improve
medicines management at the interface, on admission and particularly at
discharge and where high-risk medicines are involved, including shared-care
issues acting on behalf of the practice.
Person Specification
Experience
Desirable
- Proven track record of managing face to face consultations with patients and others.
- Evidence of working across the interfaces between general practice and providers and social care.
- Ability to demonstrate good working relations across multidisciplinary teams.
- Understanding of primary care systems for prescribing and funding to facilitate pathways across health systems.
- Evidence of personal leadership to improve the quality of care.
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in pharmacy and current GPhC registration
- Evidence of continued professional development relevant to clinical services
- Relevant underpinning knowledge of general practice and evidence-based medicine
- Independent Prescriber
Desirable
- Membership of RPS or willingness to join
Person Specification
Experience
Desirable
- Proven track record of managing face to face consultations with patients and others.
- Evidence of working across the interfaces between general practice and providers and social care.
- Ability to demonstrate good working relations across multidisciplinary teams.
- Understanding of primary care systems for prescribing and funding to facilitate pathways across health systems.
- Evidence of personal leadership to improve the quality of care.
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in pharmacy and current GPhC registration
- Evidence of continued professional development relevant to clinical services
- Relevant underpinning knowledge of general practice and evidence-based medicine
- Independent Prescriber
Desirable
- Membership of RPS or willingness to join
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.
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UK Registration
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