Clinical Pharmacist

NHS; Corby; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000

Job description

The post holder is a pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacists in general practice. The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.

Main Duties of the Job

Job responsibilities will include:

1. Telephone or patient facing medication reviews
2. Clinical audit/CQC inspection work
3. Ensuring high risk drug monitoring is being done/followed up on
4. LTC reviews such as HTN, asthma, etc.
5. Sorting out of stock medications
6. Processing letters that require medication changes
7. New patient medication reviews
8. Care home medication reviews
9. Signposting

About Us

At Aspiro Healthcare, we foster an inclusive culture that promotes employee health and well-being, creativity and engagement, and supports recruitment and retention. We create a valued training environment, promoting excellence and encouraging innovation to ensure a highly skilled and motivated workforce. We offer a competitive rate of pay.

Job Summary

The post holder is a pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacists in general practice. The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.

The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and manage medicines reconciliation on transfer of care, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patients in the GP practice.

The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services. The post holder will ensure that the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload. The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies, so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice.

The post holder will be supported to develop non-medical prescribing.

Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility

1. Patient facing Clinical Medication Review: Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacists, nurses and/or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
2. Patient facing care home medication reviews: Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
3. Patient facing domiciliary clinical medication review: Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the clinical pharmacists, dispensers, nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
4. Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments: Work towards managing a caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence.
5. Medicine information to practice staff and patients: Answer relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines.
6. Unplanned hospital admissions: Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews.
7. Management of medicines at discharge from hospital: Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes.
8. Service development: Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components.
9. Education and Training: Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.

Person Specification

Qualifications

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.