Job summary
We are seeking a highly skilled and
experienced Senior Clinical Pharmacist to join our busy GP practice. The
successful candidate will report directly to the Lead Clinical Pharmacist and
the Medicines Management GP Partner. You will work collaboratively with a
dynamic team of pharmacists and a pharmacy technician to deliver exceptional
patient care and optimize medication management.
Applicants should be registered with the General
Pharmaceutical Council and have completed an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy. Applicants should be
an independent prescriber.
Main duties of the job
Chronic conditions management and clinic provision in areas including hypertension, diabetes, asthma, COPD etc
Experience in lipid management and ability to initiate/monitor cholesterol lowering medication during cardiovascular medication reviews
Experience in managing minor ailments and undertaking clinics to respond to patient demand within this area
Able to support the practice to achieve its QOF targets/and other practice targets which involve prescribing using clinical protocols
Support pharmacy technician/junior pharmacist with clinical and pharmaceutical problems and provide guidance on complex medicines-related queries
Provide expertise in clinical medicines
review, address public health and social needs of patients
Liaise with community pharmacy/hospital pharmacy teams to ensure continuity of care and resolve medication queries
Manage patients and healthcare professionals medicine queries
Increase quality and safety of
prescribing through mechanisms such as audits and recall systems
Work with primary care professionals to implement NICE and other evidence-based guidelines
Run clinics where medicines are the main
interventions including DOC monitoring
Provide medicines information and
training to Practice healthcare professionals and admin staff
Act as a source of medicines information for all of the practice team and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives e.g. around out of stocks) managing medication queries.
About us
We are a large innovative, forward thinking GP surgery located
on the Harrow/Barnet Borders. The
practice has strong ethos of staff training and development and is involved in
teaching GP Registrars, F2s, medical students and nurses. We hold regular educational meetings with
internal and external speakers.
We offer:
Opportunity for Hybrid Working
Opportunities for professional development and career progression
Competitive rates of pay appropriate to skills and experience.
Occupational Pension Scheme
Free Parking
Job description
Job responsibilities
Primary Roles and Responsibilities
Medication Reviews
- Hold
clinics for patients requiring face-to-face structured medication
reviews i.e. a review of the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of
monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their
medicine taking.
- Provide
a telephone support for patients with questions, queries, and concerns
about their medicines.
- Undertake
structured medication reviews with patients with multi-morbidity and
polypharmacy and implement own prescribing changes (as an independent
prescriber) and order relevant monitoring test.
Long Term
Conditions
- See
patients in long term condition clinics and implement improvements to
patient's medicines, including de-prescribing.
- Manage
own case load, run own long-term condition clinics in conjunction with
GPs and support clinical decision making when medicine management input
is required
- Review
the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an
opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking.
High-risk
Medication Reviews
- Manage
patients at risk of hospital admissions and harm from poor use of
medicines.
- Undertake
clinical medication reviews with patients with multi-morbidity and
polypharmacy and implement own prescribing changes (as an independent
prescriber) and order relevant monitoring tests.
- Attend
and refer patients to multidisciplinary case meetings.
Repeat
Prescribing
- Produce
and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy.
- Manage
the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests
for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates.
- Ensure
patients are booked in for necessary monitoring tests where required.
Management
of Medicines at Discharge from Hospital
- Management
of medicines at discharge from hospital
- To
reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate
care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying
unexplained changes manage these changes without referral to a GP.
- Perform
a clinical medication review, produce a post discharge medicines care
plan including dose titration and booking of follow up tests and working
with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the
medicines they need post discharge.
Medicines
Safety
- Working
with patients, the network and primary care teams to minimise risks
through medicines optimisation.
- Review
national and local policy and guidance that affects patient safety using
medicines, including MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and emerging
evidence form clinical trials.
- Manage
the process of implementing changes to medicines and guidance for
practitioners.
- Develop
and put into place protocols for managing patients on high-risk
medications and train admin/reception staff in these to optimise safe
management of these patients.
- Design,
develop and implement of clinical system searches to identify cohorts of
patients at high risk of hard from medicines,
Cost Saving
Make
recommendations for, and manage pharmacy technicians to, make changes to
medicines (switches) designed to save on medicine costs where a medicine or
product with lower acquisition cost is now available.
Clinical Advice and Expertise on Medicines
- Answers
all medicine-related enquiries from GPs and other practice staff with
queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions.
- Provide
telephone advice for patients with questions, queries and concerns about
their medicines. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect
of any changes.
Care Quality
Commission
To ensure
the practice(s) are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are
involved.
Training
Provide
education and training to the Practice staff on therapeutics and medicines
optimisation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Primary Roles and Responsibilities
Medication Reviews
- Hold
clinics for patients requiring face-to-face structured medication
reviews i.e. a review of the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of
monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their
medicine taking.
- Provide
a telephone support for patients with questions, queries, and concerns
about their medicines.
- Undertake
structured medication reviews with patients with multi-morbidity and
polypharmacy and implement own prescribing changes (as an independent
prescriber) and order relevant monitoring test.
Long Term
Conditions
- See
patients in long term condition clinics and implement improvements to
patient's medicines, including de-prescribing.
- Manage
own case load, run own long-term condition clinics in conjunction with
GPs and support clinical decision making when medicine management input
is required
- Review
the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an
opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking.
High-risk
Medication Reviews
- Manage
patients at risk of hospital admissions and harm from poor use of
medicines.
- Undertake
clinical medication reviews with patients with multi-morbidity and
polypharmacy and implement own prescribing changes (as an independent
prescriber) and order relevant monitoring tests.
- Attend
and refer patients to multidisciplinary case meetings.
Repeat
Prescribing
- Produce
and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy.
- Manage
the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests
for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates.
- Ensure
patients are booked in for necessary monitoring tests where required.
Management
of Medicines at Discharge from Hospital
- Management
of medicines at discharge from hospital
- To
reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate
care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying
unexplained changes manage these changes without referral to a GP.
- Perform
a clinical medication review, produce a post discharge medicines care
plan including dose titration and booking of follow up tests and working
with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the
medicines they need post discharge.
Medicines
Safety
- Working
with patients, the network and primary care teams to minimise risks
through medicines optimisation.
- Review
national and local policy and guidance that affects patient safety using
medicines, including MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and emerging
evidence form clinical trials.
- Manage
the process of implementing changes to medicines and guidance for
practitioners.
- Develop
and put into place protocols for managing patients on high-risk
medications and train admin/reception staff in these to optimise safe
management of these patients.
- Design,
develop and implement of clinical system searches to identify cohorts of
patients at high risk of hard from medicines,
Cost Saving
Make
recommendations for, and manage pharmacy technicians to, make changes to
medicines (switches) designed to save on medicine costs where a medicine or
product with lower acquisition cost is now available.
Clinical Advice and Expertise on Medicines
- Answers
all medicine-related enquiries from GPs and other practice staff with
queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions.
- Provide
telephone advice for patients with questions, queries and concerns about
their medicines. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect
of any changes.
Care Quality
Commission
To ensure
the practice(s) are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are
involved.
Training
Provide
education and training to the Practice staff on therapeutics and medicines
optimisation.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 3 years post--qualification experience.
Desirable
- Have worked in general practice for at least 1 year
Qualifications
Essential
- Completion of an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy, and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Independent prescriber.
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- 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
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form
- Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
- Strong IT skills
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs
- Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
- Produce timely and informative reports
- Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
- Work effectively, independently and as a team member
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
- Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions
Desirable
Management
Essential
- Demonstrates understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision.
- Demonstrates ability to improve quality within limitations of service.
- Reviews last year's progress and develops clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others.
- Demonstrates ability to motivate self to achieve goals.
- Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management.
- Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve risk managment issues according to policy/protocol
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 3 years post--qualification experience.
Desirable
- Have worked in general practice for at least 1 year
Qualifications
Essential
- Completion of an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy, and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Independent prescriber.
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- 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
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form
- Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
- Strong IT skills
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs
- Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
- Produce timely and informative reports
- Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
- Work effectively, independently and as a team member
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
- Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions
Desirable
Management
Essential
- Demonstrates understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision.
- Demonstrates ability to improve quality within limitations of service.
- Reviews last year's progress and develops clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others.
- Demonstrates ability to motivate self to achieve goals.
- Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management.
- Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve risk managment issues according to policy/protocol
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).