Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Patient facing long-term condition clinic

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

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 senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP 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 senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.

Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.

Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments

Manage caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence.

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.

Telephone medicines support

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

Medicine information to practice staff and patients

Answer relevant 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)

Desirable

• Specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
• Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience
• An understanding of general practice and how it works
• An understanding of the context of prescribing in primary care and strategies for its improvement
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills including within patient consultations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to implement medicines optimisation
• Good IT skills including the ability to obtain and analyse complex technical information
• Recognise priorities when problem solving and identify deviations from the normal pattern, able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
• Able to work under pressure, prioritise workloads and to meet deadlines.
• Work effectively both independently and as a team member

Desirable

• In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)
• Produce timely and informative reports

Other

Essential

• Self-motivation
• Adaptable
• Immunisation status

Desirable

• Full driving licence

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

Primary Care Sheffield

Address

722 Prince of Wales Road

Sheffield

South Yorkshire

S9 4EU

Employer's website

http://www.primarycaresheffield.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)