Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Patient Services

Resolve day-to-day medicines and prescription issues with healthcare professionals

Liaise with primary, secondary and community care colleagues to ensure medicines follow-up on transfer of care

Respond to patient discharge from hospital, liaising with local pharmacies to improve patient outcomes and ensure prescribing in is line with the latest evidence and prescribing guidelines.

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

Work with General Practice to provide clinical medicines advice to care homes and domiciliary care teams with a focus on Evidence based treatment and/or prescribing.

Perform Medication reviews to optimise patients drug management directly, organising blood tests and/or follow up where appropriate.

Detect early deterioration in patients and act proactively to help manage the condition where appropriate.

Support practice repeat prescription services and deal with queries from reception staff and patients

Rationalise repeat prescriptions lists to avoid waste and duplication

To follow up identified patient groups, targeting better patient adherence with treatment to improve outcomes

Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorization process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching

review dates and flagging up those needing a review.

Provide practice and or home based review clinics to those with LTCs or complex health needs including vulnerable people in the future.

Advising patients of the adverse side effect of medication and potential interaction with other medication/treatments

Compliment and co-ordinate practice based public health campaigns with the local community pharmacy public health campaigns e.g. flu vaccinations

Present to Patient groups any changes to prescribing in line with NICE, best practice or in response to prescribing alerts.

Managing caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence, in the future.

Strategic Direction and Business Development

To review existing prescribing practice and make recommendations to the prescribers and the practices and/or the PCN.

To develop new prescribing policies in line with best practice and local care pathways.

Contribute to policies on storage, preparation and ordering of practice stock and control systems

Ensure the practices are compliant with NICE, MHRA, NHSE and local prescribing guidelines and practices

To provide a link function between the hospital and the local community pharmacy in the use of Medicine Use Reviews and New Medicine Service

To support the development of practice services that reduces the workload within the practice

Review and make recommendations to GPs of patients medication who have Long term conditions as part of the patients care plan.

Engage with the Quality, Innovation, Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) agenda and support the Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF)

To provide updates to the Partners on clinical pathways, new medicines and NICE recommendations and guidelines.

Helping practices prepare for CQC visits

To develop systems and processes which reduce drug wastage and expenditure

Review and report on the usage of Electronic Prescription Service

Engaged with the following STOPP (screening tool for older peoples potentially inappropriate prescriptions)/ START (screening tool to alert doctors to right/appropriate treatments) identified patients recurrent hospital admissions.

Clinical leadership

To lead on the management of prescribing risk

To undertake risk assessments in line with practice or clinical priorities

To be responsible for ensuring that all patients medications are reviewed systematically, with a focus on medicines optimisations.

Lead on high risk prescribing to ensure safety e.g. patients on methotrexate, NOAC and warfarin

Review, maintain and update clinical records, as required

To provide timely review of patients discharge medication where there had been an unplanned hospital admission

To lead on medicine safety and ensure compliance with National Patient Safety Agency requirements

To action patient safety alerts and report to the GP Partners

Agree clinical audit of prescribed drugs with GP Partners

Contribute to Significant Event investigations and lead where these are drug related

To advise on the management of drugs purchase and storage to ensure there are processes in place to minimise errors or omissions, which could compromise Care Quality Commission Standards.

To regularly audit against QOF domains, improve risk stratification of patients and improve service targeting and delivery.

Develop cycle for prescribing audits, monitor and ensure change to practice where this is indicated

To ensure that the practice has robust governance in respect of prescribing all drugs on prescription

To develop relevant prescribing skills and qualifications as requested by the practice.

Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.

Where required take part in safeguarding training and updates and be aware of /and act on such issues when dealing with all patients.

Communication

Provide medicines information to ensure all practice staff have access to up-to-date medicines information in a format that supports patient engagement and education.

To provide regular updating on clinical pathways, new medicines and NICE recommendations and guidelines

To ensure clear record keeping and communications within the practice IT systems.

Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.

Internal and External relationships

To liaise and engage directly with local community based pharmacists

To work with both the CCG and the Local Authorities and Public Health to develop and support the delivery of services that improves the health of the local community

To liaise directly with Acute and other care providers.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm)
• Clinical diploma
• Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
• A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience.

Desirable

• Independent prescriber

Skills knowledge and Experience

Essential

• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare.
• An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices.
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience of motivational interviewing and able to train other staff
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences.
• Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
• Good IT skills
• Familiarity with GP systems.
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
• Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
• Reliable.
• Self-motivated.
• Work autonomously.
• Able to work under pressure to meet deadlines, whilst maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
• Able to work at part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Commitment to CPD.

Desirable

• Experience of Emis Clinical System
• Experience of 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.

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

Parkside Group Practice

Address

27 Wyche Grove

South Croydon

Surrey

CR2 6EX

Employer's website

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