Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Summary:

The post holder will be a clinical pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside the multi-disciplinary team and within the primary care network.

The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription systems and medication queries.

They will support the repeat prescription team with systems & assisting to deal with acute requests, medicines reconciliation & discharge from hospital.

The post holder will see patients face to face within appropriate areas of their training with chronic disease within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.

The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.

The post holder will ensure that the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload.

The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice.

Patient facing Clinical Medication Reviews

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes

Patient facing Long-term condition

See (where appropriate) 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 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 GPs for medicine improvement.

Patient facing medicines support

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

Patient facing care home medication reviews

Telephone medicines support

Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.

Care Homes

Work with responsible care home GP & CCG/network pharmacists to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration. Patient facing domiciliary clinical medication review Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.

Team Support

Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff. Suggesting and recommending solutions.

Support the repeat prescription team with systems & assisting to deal with acute requests, medicines reconciliation & discharge from hospital.

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.

Reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review.

Patient 500 & Eclipse aided by this software manage alerts actioning or liaising with usual GP

Service development

Be pivotal in future planning for the growth and changing patient needs of the practice population

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 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).

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 general public.

Person Specification

Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g. ICBs)

Demonstrates ability to work as a member of a team

Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary

Demonstrates ability to improve quality within limitations of service

Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve goals

Promotes diversity and equality in people

Reviews yearly progress and develops clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others

Demonstrates self-development through continuous professional development activity;

Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships

Liaises with ICB colleagues including ICB Pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit

Liaises with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Desirable

• May hold or be working towards an independent prescribing qualification.

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 2 years experience as a pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
• Have experience and an awareness of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice

Desirable

• Recognises priorities when problem-solving and identifies deviations from normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
• Able to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct
• Involves patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidelines. NB: it is anticipated level of qualification held may vary according to the level of position and the components of the role being carried out, see person specification for details.

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

Rosedale Surgery

Address

Ashburnham Way

Carlton Colville

Lowestoft

Suffolk

NR33 8LG

Employer's website

https://www.rosedalesurgery.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)