Job summary
Clinical
Pharmacist
Are
you looking for an exciting opportunity as a Clinical Pharmacist in Primary
Care? Are you an independent prescriber? Do you have other commitments outside
of work so looking for more flexibility with your hours? Does working a
portion of your hours from home appeal to you?
Come and join our experienced
prescribing team comprised of 8prescribing Clinical Pharmacists, 1
Pharmacy Technician and 5 Prescription Administrators. Our key aim is to provide
our Pharmacists with clinical variety and opportunities for development and progression
within this innovative PCN.
Each pharmacist has been offered the
opportunity to develop intoChronic disease management and specialist
areas, including:
HRT
Anticoagulation
Hypothyroidism
Diabetes
Heart
Failure
Hypertension
Asthma/COPD
Pain
Management
If you have an interest in education,
we are also involved in training pharmacist students from the hospital and
community, currently hosting 2 Pharmacist Students.
Main duties of the job
Our priory CARE access model utilises an AI tool to ensure our patients can access us in a variety of ways which allows both the pharmacists and prescription admin teams to manage patients' requests and needs more efficiently and effectively.
The Clinical Pharmacists provide both routine clinics and specialist clinics across their working week, this is supported by a Clinical Pharmacist CPPE trainer lead and two GP partners with an interest in Workforce transformation.
Within their routine clinics, the clinical pharmacy team provide a combination of Routine Medication Reviews, Acute Prescription requests and Urgent Same Day Queries. The aim being that there is limited hidden work and a complete transparency of daily work load shared between the pharmacists.
There are opportunities for diverse PCN audit work which benefits patient care for which there is protected time created to oversee this.
Each clinical pharmacist is aligned to a specific Priory Medical Group Care Home for which they have protected time and regular interaction with, enabling optimisation of medicine management for this Frail cohort. All our pharmacists have been supported in Frailty training.
Each pharmacist at Priory Medical Group is given an opportunity to develop and be trained in a chronic disease area of interest, benefiting both patients and professional development.
About us
Priory Medical Group (PMG) provides a broad range of NHS and
private clinical services covering the whole of the City of York and the
surrounding area.
All our surgeries offer GP and Nurse led routine and urgent
appointments throughout the week.
PMG was founded in 1946 and has since grown to become one of
the largest GP Groups in the UK. Despite our size our core values are to
maintain the Family Doctor ethos.
PMG is also a Training Practice and has strong links with
the Hull York Medical School and Yorkshire and Humber Deanery. Our doctors
train and educate many new doctors each year.
We offer travel advice and vaccines both with a PMG nurse
(NHS vaccines) and also in partnership with MASTA (private vaccines). All our
clinics are manned by fully trained and experienced staff who provide the
latest travel health information.
We also offer a range of occupational health services
including private medical examinations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Working as part of a wider MDT team within Priory Medical Group, the Clinical Pharmacist role includes:
- Clinical Medication Reviews and patient monitoring
- Urgent Medication Requests
- Same day Medication Queries
- Care homes and/or domiciliary visit to optimise medicine management
- Trained in providing specialist chronic disease clinics to match skills and professional interests, telephone or face to face clinics
- Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate
- Participation in PCN Audits
- Involvement in patient safety tools and process policy development e.g. STOPP/PINCER
- Supporting our Prescription Admin Team in their role of medicine reconciliation from secondary care, repeat prescribing and eRD
- Signposting patients to other members of the wider PCN team, including First Contact Mental Health Workers, Social prescribers, First Contact MSK practitioners, Complex Care Home MDT team etc.
- Implementing changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance with support from our GP prescribing lead
Job description
Job responsibilities
Working as part of a wider MDT team within Priory Medical Group, the Clinical Pharmacist role includes:
- Clinical Medication Reviews and patient monitoring
- Urgent Medication Requests
- Same day Medication Queries
- Care homes and/or domiciliary visit to optimise medicine management
- Trained in providing specialist chronic disease clinics to match skills and professional interests, telephone or face to face clinics
- Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate
- Participation in PCN Audits
- Involvement in patient safety tools and process policy development e.g. STOPP/PINCER
- Supporting our Prescription Admin Team in their role of medicine reconciliation from secondary care, repeat prescribing and eRD
- Signposting patients to other members of the wider PCN team, including First Contact Mental Health Workers, Social prescribers, First Contact MSK practitioners, Complex Care Home MDT team etc.
- Implementing changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance with support from our GP prescribing lead
Person Specification
Qualifications
Desirable
- Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- 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
Experience
Desirable
- 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
- May hold or be working towards an independent prescribing qualification
- 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Desirable
- Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- 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
Experience
Desirable
- 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
- May hold or be working towards an independent prescribing qualification
- 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.
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).
Additional information
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).
