Clinical Pharmacist in General Practice

A new opportunity for a Clinical Pharmacist in General Practice.

Are you looking for a new General Practice employed pharmacy role? Have you completed or are you working towards your IP and/or CPPE pathway accreditation, and are looking for a new opportunity to join a stable and established team? Do you have a passion for teaching and improving standards through continuity of care and a team-based approach?

Following practice reorganisation, we seek to directly employ an enthusiastic and driven pharmacist to join our friendly team at Lower Broughton Health Centre in Salford, just a stone's throw away from Manchester city centre.

This is an excellent opportunity for the right candidate to work in an aspirational and thriving practice with great colleagues. We are a Salford GP Training practice, as well as a University of Manchester Training Site for undergraduate students.

We are heavily invested in teaching and have supported several pharmacists through the CPPE pathway and IP course; and one of the practice partners teaches on the course.

Main duties of the job

This is a full-time role for a Clinical Pharmacist with GP experience, to bring their expertise and innovation to the team at Lower Broughton Health Centre located in Salford. The Clinical Pharmacist will work as a core part of our team.

What we are looking for:

You should aspire to contribute to our team ethos to deliver the highest standard of clinical care and safety for our patients. We pride ourselves on our culture of supporting each other and our patients, and would seek to employ somebody who is equally adaptable and flexible.

Our requirement is for 37.5 hours per week, split over 5 working days. However, we would consider 2 applicants in a job share role, should we receive more than 1 exceptional applicant.

We welcome innovation and new skills to our team, and we are keen to support your development in both clinical and non-clinical areas.

We ideally seek a clinical pharmacist who has completed their Independent Prescribing and/or CPPE qualifications and is keen to develop further.

About us

The Practice:

Split over 2 sites looking after 11,500 patients in M6 and M7 Areas of Greater Manchester.

2 Partners, 10 Salaried GPs (3 Fellows), 3 GP STs, 2 Practice Nurses, 3 HCAs, Practice employed part-time Pharmacist, PCN employed ARRS pharmacists and pharmacy tech, and a well-organised and helpful team of reception staff.

High retention rate of staff.

High QoF achievement / CQC rating Good.

EMIS web IT system with AccuRx for patient messaging and Triage.

Surgery Connect telephone system.

A paper-light practice with organised Docman Workflow.

A typical day:

A typical day's tasks involve working through shared Docman workflow, reviewing medication-related queries from clinicians and patients, undertaking SMRs by telephone and in person, time allocated to work on practice priorities, KPIs and projects, and attendance at practice meetings/training sessions.

We offer terms as per our standard practice contract including NHS pension, annual leave and employment benefits. Depending on experience £47k - £52k.

Job responsibilities

The Clinical Pharmacist will work as a core part of our team, and will:

1. Provide expertise in clinical medicines review.
2. Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication reviews.
3. Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post-discharge.
4. Contribute to reductions in medicine-related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines-related issues.
5. Interface with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop relationships which help enhance patient care.
6. Support the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates.
7. Manage patients and healthcare professionals' medicine queries.
8. Increase quality and safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as searches, recalls, audit and PDSA cycles.
9. Manage practice formularies to improve the quality, safety and cost-effectiveness of prescribing.
10. Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety.
11. Work with practice clinicians and patients to implement NICE and other evidence-based guidelines.
12. Run clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. SMR and chronic disease monitoring clinics.
13. Review pathology results for patients on known medicines and reauthorise medications.
14. Contribute to multi-morbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews.
15. Provide medicines information and training to Practice healthcare professionals and admin staff, as well as patients.
16. 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).

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Relevant degree/qualification to show you are a registered Clinical Pharmacist with GPhC registration.
• 12+ months experience working in primary care.
• Experience with EMIS.
• An independent prescribing qualification (working towards/or completed).
• Able to commute to onsite location.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• To already be on CPPE Primary Care pathway or will be willing to partake, unless exempted if you have extensive experience working as a Clinical Pharmacist.

Experience

• At least 12 months of experience working in General Practice.
• Experience with EMIS, System One, Docman.

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.