Clinical Pharmacist

Job summary

As part of our medicine management team, you will be responsible for optimising and ensuring the safety of our patients medication through medication reviews, repeat prescribing, and medicines management following discharge from hospital. You will be involved in annual QOF and IIF targets, and audit requirements. You will be on a rotation with our other pharmacists managing our Telemeds process and working some evening clinics. You would be part of a group of pharmacists and GPs who are keen to develop new services, like for instance a pharmacist lead ADHD clinic.

We were the highest ranked PCN for "positive experience of working in Primary Care" across our whole team.

Main duties of the job

• Playing a key role in our Medicines Management Team to ensure medicines management optimisation and safety. It will include multidisciplinary working with other clinical teams.
• Undertaking clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for GPs and Nurse/Nurse Practitioners on prescribing and monitoring.
• Having oversight of reducing polypharmacy, which is one our key outcomes as a green impact practice.
• Reviewing and actioning any necessary changes to repeat prescribing and medicines management policies.
• Managing repeat prescribing re-authorisation process.
• Reconciling medicines following discharge from hospital, intermediate care and into care homes.
• Undertaking clinical/structured medication reviews.

About us

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Pharmacist to join the Frome Medical Practice, a single site Practice and Primary Care Network with just under 30,000 patients who live in the attractive market town of Frome and its surrounding village. You will be working within our team of enthusiastic and highly motivated Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians to support patient care along with the wider team of highly skilled GPs, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Physiotherapist and Health Coaches.

Frome Medical Practice is a recognised Learning Organisation with a strong focus on education and development and have a pharmacy technician apprentice working within the medicines management team currently. We are based in a fantastic purpose-built centre and are co-located with adult mental health, district nurses, and independent pharmacy with our local community hospital next door. We are National award winners for our work in sustainability and Green Impact initiatives. We have been accepted to join the new PCN Pilot Programme working with NHSE which will also provide exciting opportunities to shape and develop clinical pathways.