Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

To improve patients health outcomes and the efficiency of the Primary Care team by providing direct, accessible and timely Clinical Medicines expertise, by working as part of a Multi-Disciplinary Practice Team. To pro-actively transfer workload relating to medicines optimisation issues from other clinical staff to improve patient care, safety, thus freeing up clinical staff to spend more time on other clinical care:

To provide relevant support to the primary care team.

To promote safe, evidence based, cost effective prescribing in line with ICB requirements

To provide expert pharmaceutical advice to Practices and the Medicines Optimisation Team

To provide prescribing support to the designated Practices and team members in areas such as o Hospital discharge letters

Face to Face Medication reviews and follow up

Implementation of prescribing changes

Review of repeat prescribing

Audit

The post holder will provide leadership on quality improvement and clinical audit, as well as managing some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework.

This role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires good motivation and passion to deliver an excellent service within a General Practice environment.

Person Specification

Other

Essential

• Meet DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions.
• Adaptable and self motivated.
• Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis including visiting people in their own homes.

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
• Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
• 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.
• Produce timely and informative reports.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Experience

Essential

• Strong therapeutic and clinical knowledge with a firm understanding of evidence-based healthcare.
• Insight into the workings of general practice and the primary care environment.
• Appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rationale prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience in a clinical setting.
• Undertaking, completed or can demonstrate exemption from CPPE's Primary Care Pharmacy Education Programme.
• Minimum of 5 years post - qualification experience.

Desirable

• Independent prescriber of currently working towards 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.

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

East Shore Partnership

Address

St Cuthbert’s Church

Hayling Avenue

Portsmouth

Hants

PO3 6BH

Employer's website

http://www.eastshorepartnership.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)