Clinical Pharmacist (Maternity cover)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Patient facing Long-term condition clinics - where appropriate patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required e.g. COPD, asthma. Review the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement.

Patient facing Clinical Medication Review - Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.

Patient facing care home medication reviews - Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacist, nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.

Patient facing domiciliary clinical medication review - Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacists, nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.

Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments - Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate.

Patient facing medicines support - Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice. Telephone medicines support - Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.

Medicine information to practice staff and patients - Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams e.g. community pharmacy and patients with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.

Unplanned hospital admissions - 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 high-risk patient groups.

Management of medicines at discharge from hospital - 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 high-risk groups of patients e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes.

Signposting - 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.

Repeat prescribing - 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.

Risk Stratification Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-pared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related or both.

Service development - 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.

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

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

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

Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations - Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economies 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.

Education and Training - Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.

Care Quality Commission - Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council GPhC
• Masters degree in pharmacy MPharm or equivalent
• Qualified as an independent prescriber

Desirable

• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate diploma or equivalent training/experience

Experience

Essential

• Working knowledge of GP IT systems including EMIS, Docman
• 2 years post qualification experience
• Experience of working with operational teams, cross organisations and a range of professionals

Desirable

• 2 years GP - Primary Care experience

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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

Lichfield and Burntwood GP Network Ltd.

Address

Langton Grange Medical Centre

Eastern Avenue

Lichfield

Staffordshire

WS13 7FA