Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility

See patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma).

Review the on-going need for each medicine

A review of monitoring needs

Support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation).

Manage own case load and run long-term condition clinics

Make appropriate recommendations to GPs for medicine improvement.

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and implement own prescribing changes and order relevant monitoring tests

Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.

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

Suggest and recommend solutions

Provide follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes

Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews.

Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to highrisk patient groups.

To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

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

Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc

Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation

process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review.

Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.

Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches.

This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both

Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).

Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision-making

Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team

Monitor and report on prescribing spend against budget according to the latest available data

Analyse variations to expected expenditure and design and implement interventions to correct any negative variation (over spend)

To ensure that there is a clear plan to control prescribing spend

Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs).

Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system.

Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance. Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.

Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation

Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved

To support public health campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience in a clinical pharmacy
• Experience of working with other healthcare professionals
• Experience of clinical audits
• Experience of working in a Primary Care setting

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in Pharmacy
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Prescribing qualification
• Maintains clinical and professional competence and CPD

Skills

Essential

• Ability to apply clinical knowledge appropriately
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with attention to detail
• Good presentation skills
• Effective time management with the ability to prioritise
• Ability to work as part of a team and on own

Desirable

• Ability to use System One

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

Abbey Lane Surgery

Address

23 Abbey Lane

Sheffield

South Yorkshire

S8 0BJ

Employer's website

https://www.abbeylanesurgery.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)