Meopham Medical Centre

Clinical Pharmacist

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Job summary

We are thrilled to announce an opportunity for a skilled Clinical Pharmacist to join our team! This role offers the chance to collaborate with healthcare professionals, optimise medication therapy, and improve patient outcomes.

We are seeking a dedicated individual with strong clinical knowledge, excellent communication skills, and a passion for patient-centred care. As part of our multi-disciplinary team, you will play a key role in delivering a high-quality medicines optimisation programme. Your daily interactions will include patients, community pharmacists, care homes, and ICB/PCN pharmacy teams.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

Work as an independent prescriber, providing specialist advice to patients and colleagues

Conduct comprehensive medication reviews, proactively managing complex polypharmacy, particularly in elderly patients and those with multiple conditions

Support the practice in delivering effective and safe prescribing practices

If you are looking to make a meaningful impact in a dynamic healthcare environment, we encourage you to apply!

About us

Meopham Medical Centre is a semi-rural dispensing practice with a list of just over 10,000 patients.

We have excellent schools and local amenities, with the added benefit of being a short drive from the A2 and M25, and also great rail links into London. We also have free on-site parking.

We are part of the nationally recognised Altogether Better Programme and have a fantastic multi-disciplinary team which includes a great practice and frailty nurse team. We are aiming to develop a holistic and patient focused approach to health care by providing support for non-urgent or non-medical needs like medication review, social prescribing, care coordination, mental health support.

If you would like to work in a forward-thinking, patient-centred practice, with dedicated GPs and a great support team, then wed love to hear from you!

Date posted

10 April 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£37,500 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

A2644-25-0000

Job locations

Meopham Medical Centre

Wrotham Road

Meopham

Gravesend

Kent

DA13 0AH

Job description

Job responsibilities

Provide expertise in clinical medicines review and address public health and social needs of patients in GP practices

Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review

Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge

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

Interface with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals including the promotion of the CCG repeat dispensing service

Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates

Manage patients and health care professionals medicine queries

Increase quality and safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA cycles

Manage practice formularies to improve the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of prescribing

Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety

Work with primary care professional and patients to implement NICE and other evidence based guidelines

Run clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. hypertension clinics

Contribute to multi-morbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews

Provide medicines information and training to Practice healthcare professionals and admin staff

Review daily Pathology results for patients on known medicines

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)

Undertake minor ailments triage: dealing with minor ailments and triaging patients appropriately

Has an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

Working at Meopham Medical Centre to undertake medication reviews particularly in high risk groups such as:

Frail elderly

Poly-pharmacy

Renal impairment

Hepatic impairment

Substance misuse

Patients on high risk medicines

STOPP/START identified patients

Revolving door Hospital admissions

Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all prescribers within the practice

Lead on where changes in evidence require changes in prescribing across patient population e.g. where a drug is withdrawn or indications change

Liaise with colleagues in community pharmacy to align support for medicines adherence such as MUR and NMS

Support improvements in clinical care through practice based audit and implementing change

Prescribing advice to prescribers in practice e.g. temporary non availability of drugs

Ensure patient safety when they are transferred between care providers through reconciliation of prescribed medicines

QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING FOR THIS JOB

Requirements:

GPhC Registered Pharmacist
GPhC Independent Prescriber Qualification
Experience working in primary care
Strong IT skills, including working knowledge of EMIS Web
Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills

Completion of an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy, and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Minimum of 2 years post graduate experience in pharmacy, as demonstrated within a practice portfolio

Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)

Member of or working towards (through foundation) RPS Faculty membership

May hold or be working towards a prescribing qualification

May hold or be working towards a postgraduate pharmacy qualification

MANAGEMENT

Demonstrates understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service

Demonstrates understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation

Demonstrates understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice

Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol

Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management

Demonstrates ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team

EDUCATION, TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT

Understands and demonstrates the characterises of a role model to members in the team and/or service

Demonstrates understanding of the mentorship process

Demonstrates ability to conduct teaching and assessment effectively according to a learning plan with supervision from a more experienced colleague

Demonstrates self-development through continuous professional development activity

Participates in the delivery of formal education programmes

Demonstrates an understanding of current educational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keeps up to date with relevant clinical practice

RESEARCH AND EVALUATION

Demonstrates ability to critically evaluate and review literature

Demonstrates ability to identify where there is a gap in the evidence base to support practice

Demonstrates ability to generate evidence suitable for presentation at local level

Demonstrates ability to apply the research evidence base into working practice

Demonstrates understanding of the principles of research governance

Demonstrates ability to work as a member of the research team

CONFIDENTIALITY

While seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately

In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, Practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential

Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.