Clinical pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties and responsibilities

• Carry out telephone and face to face consultations with patients.
• Run minor illness clinics, prescribing medication as clinically indicated and within remit of qualifications and own professional registration regulations.
• To identify target patient groups for medication reviews.
• To carry out medication reviews in the surgery, patient home or in residential/nursing home settings.
• Provide health education advice to patients and run medicine awareness campaigns for patient groups.
• To provide routine chronic disease reviews for patients including review of medication.
• To communicate and implement medication changes and alerts as advised by the medicines management team of the CCG or NICE guidelines or any other appropriate professional body.
• To develop medication protocols for managing clinical conditions.
• To ensure that the repeat prescribing policy and procedures are efficient and are updated and communicated whenever necessary.
• To maintain good working relationships with Community Pharmacists.
• To support clinical audit in the practice and carry out audits and provide reports relating to own area of expertise.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Recognised pharmacist qualification. Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Already be engaged with or willingness to undertake the CPPE Clinical Pharmacists in General Practice Education programme

Desirable

• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
• Completion of or working towards an independent prescriber qualification

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience
• An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices
• An appreciate of the nature of general practice prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills
• Ability to build rapport and gain trust with patients
• Ability to support and mentor staff
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences
• Confident IT user
• Ability to prioritise own workload, work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Work effectively independently and as a team member
• Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimization issues in core areas for long term conditions
• Recognises priorities wen problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
• Audit and reporting experience

Desirable

• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
• Proficient in use of excel for audits and data reporting
• Experience in the use of GP clinical systems especially EMIS
• Good delegation skills

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

PRIMECARE PMS Trading as South Street Medical Centre

Address

71A Greenwich South Street

Greenwich

London

SE10 8NT

Employer's website

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