Clinical Pharmacist - Nightingales PCN

Job description

Job responsibilities

Core Responsibilities

· Working within the practice based team to undertake medication reviews particularly in high risk groups such as:

- Frail elderly

- Poly-pharmacy

- Renal impairment

- Hepatic impairment

- Asthma, diabetes, hypertension and Rheumatoid and DMARD drug monitoring

- Substance misuse

- Patients on high risk medicines

- STOPP/START identified patients

- Revolving door Hospital admissions

· Management support for the dispensary including: profitability and stock control; negotiations with drug company representatives and wholesalers; and organisational management including review of SOPS (Standard Operating Procedures) and compliance issues;

· Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all prescribers within the practice;

· Lead on where changes in evidence require changes in prescribing across the patient population, e.g. where a drug is withdrawn or indications change;

· Liaise with colleagues in community pharmacy to align support for medicines adherence;

· Support improvements in clinical care through practice based audit and implementing change;

· Prescribing advice to prescribers in practice e.g. temporary non-availability of drugs;

· Ensure patient safety when they are transferred between care providers through reconciliation of prescribed medicines;

· Lead for medicines optimisation scheme compliance, including care home support; discharge reviews; medication reviews; and QIPP;

· Has an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Min 2 4 years post graduate (2 years experience working in general practice or 4 years in other comparable healthcare setting).
• Experience of public health promotion/high risk medicines monitoring/lead on antimicrobial stewardship/safe and effective repeat prescribing.
• Good working knowledge of QOF and contribution to QOF delivery.
• Good working knowledge of and role in Enhanced Services.
• An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices.
• Able to carry out Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment.
• Able to conduct clinical medicine reviews, reduce waste through poly-pharmacy and over prescribing, reconcile and optimize medications.
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
• Excellent interpersonal influencing and negotiating skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimization issues in core areas for long term conditions.
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
• Recognizes priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• 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.
• Able to act upon MHRA alerts.

Desirable

• 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 to a variety of audiences (eg patients).
• Produce timely and informative reports.
• To be familiar with GP IT systems.
• To be able to demonstrate experience in a patient facing role.

Qualifications

Essential

• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Undergraduate Pharmacy Degree
• experience.
• Independent Prescriber or working towards this.
• Other post graduate studies such as diploma.

Desirable

• Masters level Pharmacy qualification or working towards this (MPharm).

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

SW Healthcare

Address

Droitwich Medical Centre

Ombersley Street East

Droitwich Spa

Worcestershire

WR9 8RD

Employer's website

http://www.swhealthcare.org.uk (Opens in a new tab)