Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

The role of the Clinical Pharmacist will be made up of many of the following:

Clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.

Be prescribers, or committed to completing training to become prescribers.

Contribute to the delivery of effective daily processes for the transfer of care between hospitals and GPs including effective signposting, recommendation of medication changes and communication accordingly.

Support colleagues and patients with medication queries and monitoring.

Take responsibility for the care management of patients with chronic diseases.

Undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy.

Focus especially on the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities (in particular Frailty, COPD and Asthma) and people with Learning Disabilities or Autism.

Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines, while helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients.

Through the use of audit and action planning, help to tackle inequalities.

Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement.

Contribute to the General Practice Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) and Enhanced Services.

Use Structured Medication Reviews to support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care.

Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).

Work with general practice teams to ensure that practices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Master of Pharmacy or equivalent
• Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
• Be willing to commit to or have completed the CPPE Pathway
• Be willing to complete Independent Prescribing Qualification
• Experience of Common Acute and Long-term Conditions
• Strong problem solver
• Work effectively independently
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
• Rigorous in following legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies and codes of conduct
• Committed to continuous professional development
• Ability to apply research evidence base into the workplace
• Excellent verbal communication skills
• Excellent organisational skills
• IT literate

Desirable

• More than 2 years Experience as a Pharmacist
• Independent Prescriber
• Experience of Medication Reviews relevant in General Practice
• Track record of improving work processes
• Previous experience of working in a GP Surgery
• Up to date knowledge of CQC Regulations in General Practice
• Good understanding and history of quality improvement work through audit
• User of EMIS Web

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

New Pond Row Surgery

Address

35 South Street

Lancing

West Sussex

BN15 8AN

Employer's website

https://www.newpondrow.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)