Clinical Pharmacist

Job responsibilities

Job Summary

The post is for a PCN clinical pharmacist as part an ARRS role. The pharmacist will be employed by the practice and will work within, and be supported by, a well established pharmacy team. The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews including patients with complex polypharmacy. The post holder will provide support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will help support the repeat prescribing process, deal with acute prescription requests, and undertake medicines reconciliation for the relevant patients following discharge from hospital.

They will provide expert advice on medicines to patients and the multidisciplinary teams across our practices. Other responsibilities will include the provision of clinical leadership on medicines optimisation, quality improvement and the management of some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and some enhanced services across all sites. The post holder will facilitate integration with community and hospital pharmacy to improve overall patient care. The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires the post holder to demonstrate motivation and passion to deliver excellent services across our practices. The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber as needed. The post holder will be expected to work independently and also as part of our pharmacy team. They must recognise the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and other stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and professionals from other NHS/private organisations e.g. CCGs). They must be able to recognise their personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary.

Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility

• Long term condition medication reviews
• Care home medication reviews
• Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments
• Supporting medication queries and information to both practice staff and patients
• Medicines reconciliation following discharge from hospital
• Delivering local enhanced services
• Repeat prescribing
• Clinical audits
• Medication queries form clinicians
• Participate in regular supervision sessions and appraisals with your line manager
• Action MHRA alerts
• Provide guidance on managing out of stock medication queries
• Attend training and development activities as identified and participate in meetings as required.
• Maintain a good working knowledge of Health and Safety procedures and fire precautions.
• Work flexibly to meet the needs of our patients.
• To undertake any other duties appropriate to the grade and purpose of the job as may be agreed by the post holder or their line manager
• Be instrumental in the prescribing and monitoring of high-risk medications and shared-care drugs

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence- based healthcare
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when
• appropriate.
• Good written and verbal communication as well as adequate presentation skills

Desirable

• 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
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients).
• Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
• Good IT skills
• Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
• Work effectively independently and as a team member.
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
• Recognise priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from normal pattern and is able to refer to senior colleagues when appropriate

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional Registration: General Pharmaceutical Council
• Qualification: Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)

Desirable

• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
• Independent prescriber or working towards /intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification
• Completed or undertaking the CPPE general practice clinical pharmacist training pathway

Other

Essential

• Full Driving Licence
• In date CRB
• Safeguarding adult and children level three

Desirable

• Self-Motivation
• Adaptable
• Recent Information Governance training
• Immunisation status
• Basic life support training

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).