Clinical Pharmacist

Boyatt Wood Surgery and Eastleigh Medical practice are based in Eastleigh with a list size of 23000 patients. We aspire to offer exceptional care to our 23000 patients and are innovative in our approach to developing new teams and pathways to improve how general practice is delivered. We have a friendly and supportive team of more than 50 staff, with GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Paramedics, Nurses, Mental Health specialists and our range of administrative staff.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking an experienced Clinical Pharmacist, who is an independent prescriber, to improve the quality and safety of care offered to patients. They will have regular contact with patients and will support our GPs and ANPs in the practice. They will also aid in the support in the management of patients with long-term conditions.

Based at Boyatt Wood Surgery on a Permanent, Full-time basis. The successful post holder will undertake an enhanced DBS check and be subject to pre-employment checks.

About us

Boyatt Wood Surgery and Eastleigh Medical Practice in Eastleigh, Hampshire. Eastleigh Medical Practice is a busy, town centre practice in Eastleigh. Boyatt Wood Surgery is a partner practice about a mile from central Eastleigh. Eastleigh Medical Practice currently has over 14500 registered patients and Boyatt Wood has 8500 patients. There is excellent support from a multi-disciplinary team of GPs, ANPs and Practice Nurses. The computer system is EMIS Hub.

Key benefits:

• Close to the coast and the New Forest
• A diverse patient population
• Friendly and supportive working environment
• Option to develop special interests
• Excellent train service to London
• Regional airport

Job responsibilities

Specifically, the Practice-based Clinical Pharmacist will develop and manage medicines optimisation services within primary care. They will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to manage medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing.

They will perform face-to-face medication reviews of patients with polypharmacy; especially for those with frailty and/or with multiple co-morbidities. They will undertake face-to-face reviews of patients with specific long-term conditions that fall within their competency.

They will provide leadership on quality improvement and clinical audit, as well as managing aspects of medicines safety and antibiotic stewardship. They will contribute to practice financial stability through optimisation of medicines related targets in QOF.

Duties and responsibilities:

• To reduce the medicines related workload on doctors
• Increase safety and quality of prescribed medicines
• Provide support on medicines related issues to the whole practice team
• Be a point of contact for patients regarding medicines queries

They should support the following clinical work:

• Chronic Disease Management (for example, managing hypertension/Type 2 Diabetes/Asthma/COPD patients, polypharmacy review)
• Medicines reconciliation on transfer between care providers

They should also support the following practice development work:

• Focusing on QoF Domains, improving disease registers
• Prescribing Safety, Clinical audit, Local Enhanced Services support
• Lead on prescription management (systems and processes, ensuring monitoring is being done, support clerical staff)

Note: This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the post holder may be required to undertake other duties, which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the manager.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of working as an independent prescriber for at least 2 years.
• Experience of working in Primary Care.

Qualifications

• General Pharmaceutical Council Registration as an Independent Prescriber.

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.