Clinical Pharmacist

Job responsibilities

Job responsibilities

• To be part of the primary care team based in a small dispensing practice in a patient facing role. Including:
• Patient facing / telephone Clinical Medication Review
• Be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities and people with learning disabilities or autism
• Review the on-going need for each medication, ensuring monitoring needs are performed and use the opportunity to support patients achieve better health outcomes through shared decision-making conversations
• Support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care
• Make appropriate recommendations to prescribers
• Promote safe disposal of medicines and recycling of inhalers
• Patient facing Long-term condition clinics
• Help to set up pharmacist run long term condition clinics particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes
• Optimisation of blood pressure control
• Patient facing Care Home Medication Reviews
• Undertake clinical medication reviews, formulate a medicines optimisation plan jointly with the patient/ carer and facilitate its implementation by working with other professionals, services, and agencies as necessary
• Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.

Medicines information

• Take part in the pharmacy team central rota to answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients.
• Suggest and recommend solutions using clinical knowledge and trusted pharmaceutical sources

Medicine Reconciliation

• Carry out medication reviews and reconciliation for all new care home patients and for patients whose care is transferred back into primary care.

Medicines Management

• Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing locally.
• Support the Pharmacy team in the set up and roll out of a new way of working to manage blood monitoring of High-Risk Drugs and DOACs across the PCN.
• Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the PCNs practices and to help in tackling inequalities
• Undertake and lead on any specific medicines optimisation-based projects/portfolio areas of work as may be required by the Pharmacy Team, e.g. diabetes medication.

Collaborating Working Relationships

• Having a leadership role in supporting further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare, and help manage general practice workload
• Work collaboratively with ICB pharmacists within our Pharmacy Team
• Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals within and across the PCN and the wider health and social care system
• Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists, liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation
• Explore the potential for collaborative working and embrace opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships

Education and Training

• Enrol in the NHS England CPPE Primary care pharmacy education program (if not already undertaken) and complete the 18-month course. This will be fully supported by the PCN, and time allocated for study days.

Medicines optimisation

• Demonstrate self-development through continuous professional development
• Develop a good working knowledge of the clinical systems used by the practices (Systmone TPP)
• Attend internal and external meetings and any training courses and supervision sessions as required.
• Complete regular mandatory training.

Practice

• Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings. This will be achieved through undertaking clinical audits, supporting quality improvement measures and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services.
• Support the delivery of the pharmacy and medicines optimisation elements of the network service specifications within the Network Contract DES and IIF.
• Help the GPs with reauthorising medication and repeat prescribing process and medication reviews.
• On the day medication queries from patients
• Understand the role of CQC in General practice and adhere to practice policies.
• Take part in significant event meetings and practice protected learning meetings.
• Help with education of practice dispensers and pharmacy technicians
• Optimisation of the blood pressure control
• Support dispenser manager with safe management of medicines in the practice and review if the monthly statement.
• Service development
• Work with GPs and Pharmacy Technicians to create processes and Standard Operating Procedures for use within the practice and pharmacy teams, which offer improvement in consistency and delivery of our services to patients.
• Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services
• Identify areas of good practice and help to disseminate across the PCN
• To liaise with the practices and, where practicable, to standardise the medicines management process across the PCN
• Undertake any other duties as may reasonably be required from time to time.

The applicant will need to have access to their own transport to travel across the whole of the Purbeck Primary Care Network during the week.

Qualifications

Essential

• Pharmacy Degree
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education primary care Pharmacy Education Pathway (PCPEP) qualification or working towards/ willing to enrol
• Registered non-medical prescriber

Desirable

• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Postgraduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
• Primary Care experience
• Experience of working with clinical management systems, especially SystmOne.

Knowledge and understanding

Essential

• Relevant theoretical and practical knowledge of Primary Care Networks, General Practice, and evidence-based medicine
• An appreciation of NHS agenda, national policies, and government targets
• An understanding of the current PCN DES specifications
• A wide range of IT skills especially Microsoft 365 software and specifically Excel.

Desirable

• Awareness of GP budget management and funding systems to enable GP
• clinical pharmacist services to assist delivery of PCN and NHS priorities and requirements for financial balance and quality
• Awareness of systems to support management of patients in a primary
• care setting, delivering pharmaceutical input and support in the context of pathways of care and the business of the organisations
• Can plan, manage, monitor, advise and review medication for patients in core areas, including long term conditions

Other

Essential

• Be able to organise workload, multi-task, and work under pressure to achieve tight deadlines
• Work autonomously and within a team
• Ability to be flexible with hours if required
• Clear understanding of confidentiality
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Clear, concise record keeping and report writing skills
• Demonstrates the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences
• Have a flexible working attitude and willingness to adopt new ways of working
• Self-motivated
• Friendly and approachable
• Ability to drive/ have use of own transport

DBS and UK registration information

Essential

• Disclosure and Barring Service Check
• This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order (as amended) and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) 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). (Link: https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/working-health/overseas-health-professionals/overseas-health-professionals)

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).