Clinical Pharmacist

Job responsibilities

Job description

Job responsibilities

To be part of a multi-skilled primary care team in a patient facing role providing patient centred medical services based on patient needs with a focus on continuity of care. 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 inhaler.

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 dispensary team in the set up and roll out of a new way of working to manage blood monitoring of High-Risk Drugs and DOACs.

Take part in the monthly rota to check DOAC doses in response to these blood results.

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 specific medicines optimisation-based projects/portfolio areas of work as may be required by the Pharmacy Team, e.g., diabetes medication.

Collaborating Working Relationships

With the Pharmacy team, support 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

Work closely with other Pharmacy professionals within and across the PCN and the wider health and social care system

Work with the Pharmacy team to develop shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists, liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation

Education and Training

We would like the applicant to ideally have completed the non-medical prescriber course or the PCPEP, Primary Care Pharmacy course. Either course will be fully supported if not completed 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.

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. Make recommendations.

Support the delivery of the Pharmacy and medicines optimisation elements of the Network service specifications within the Network Contract DES

Help the GPs with reauthorising medication and repeat prescribing process and medication reviews.

On the day medication queries from patients

Manage minor illness queries for self-management or referral to GP or other agencies where needed.

Understand the role of CQC in General Practice and adhere to Practice policies.

Take part in significant event meetings and Practice protected learning meetings.

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.

Identify areas of good practice

To work with other Pharmacists, with the Practices and, where practicable, to help 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 and the ability to travel across the whole of the Purbeck Primary Care Network during the week.

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualifications:
• Pharmacy Degree
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway (PCPEP) qualification
• OR
• Registered non-medical prescriber.
• Safeguarding level 3
• Knowledge and Understanding:
• 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.
• Other:
• 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

Desirable

• Qualifications and experience:
• 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.
• Diploma
• Knowledge and Understanding:
• 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

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).