Clinical Pharmacist

We are looking for an enthusiastic clinical pharmacist to join our multi skilled, friendly team and help us to deliver excellent clinical care to our long term condition patients.

Main duties of the job

Your primary role will be managing our long term condition patients, ensuring optimisation of their medication and educating around lifestyle choices. As part of this you will also be expected to contribute to ensuring we deliver on our long term condition QOF targets.

You will have an additional role, working alongside our two in house clinical pharmacist and our PCN clinical pharmacist, ensuring that medication reviews are completed, medication reconciliation is done safely and prescribing throughout the practice is done optimally.

About us

We are a semi-rural dispensing practice situated in the market town of Driffield. We have a wide skill mix and currently employ two clinical pharmacists. We are enthusiastic about upskilling our staff and are an established training practice of ANPs, GPs, Foundation doctors and medical students.

Job responsibilities

Job responsibilities

The Clinical Pharmacist will need to be committed to improving health and putting patients first. Key qualities will be the ability to build effective relationships with patients, GPs, nurses, community pharmacists, hospital and practice staff, and to work effectively as part of a team. Demonstrable general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas, including long term conditions, together with an understanding of general practice are essential.

Clinical Pharmacist in General Practice Role Person Specification

Reports to: Partners

Job Overview: 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 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.

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 medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patients in the GP practices.

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.

Responsibilities and Duties

• See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. hypertension, asthma, diabetes).
• Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to GPs for medicine improvement.

Patient facing clinical medication review:

• Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients.
• Undertake chronic disease reviews.
• Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.

Patient facing medicines support:

Medicine information to practice staff and patients:

• Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines.
• Suggesting and recommending solutions.
• Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.

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 and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.
• Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).

Signposting:

• Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc.
• Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches.
• Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.
• Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

Education and Training:

• Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.

Care Quality Commission:

• Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved and create and maintain any relevant prescribing policies.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree in Pharmacy, MPharm/BPharm.
• GPhC Registered.
• General Practice and understanding of medicines optimisation roles.
• Desired experience.
• Clinical systems trained (Emis).
• Accredited independent prescriber qualification.

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.

£48,000 to £56,000 a year Depending on experience and Prescribing Qualification.