The Green House Surgery

Clinical Pharmacist

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Job summary

Join our friendly and forward-thinking GP Practice located on the beautiful North East Coast, just a short walk from the sea. We serve a diverse and growing patient population and pride ourselves on delivering high quality, patient-centred care.

The Practice is forward thinking and supported by an excellent team. We have a strong team ethos and work collaboratively to provide outstanding patient care.

The Employment Package we offer includes:

1. A positive organisation culture with a friendly, supportive team; it's a nice place to work.

2. Salary negotiable depending on experience for the right candidate based on skills and experience.

3. A named GP mentor who will provide support with more complex cases and processes as required.

4. Six weeks annual leave plus a pro rata share of BH, plus study leave.

5. An unlimited education support package with NB medical.

6. An employee support package (with access to personal support resources).

7. Regular team meetings; including clinical educational meetings and regular clinical meetings.

8. NHS pension scheme.

Main duties of the job

JOB SUMMARY

As a Clinical Pharmacist, the post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to develop and run processes for repeat prescription reauthorisation, deprescribing, management of medicines including transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing.

They will work directly with patients to assess and treat conditions, manage long-term conditions as well as promote self-care.They will be part of a group of Primary Care Network(PCN)Clinical Pharmacists working under the supervision and mentoring of a Clinical Pharmacist Manager.

The post holder will be an integral part of the general practice team, as well as part of a wider pharmacist network and multi-disciplinary team. This includes being a conduit of patient medicines information into and out of hospitals. They will work to optimise medication issues to improve patient care and safety and support clinical staff in the management of patients.

They will be expected to complete the accredited 18-month Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway provided by CPPE as part of their training and the support to obtain their Independent Prescriber Qualification. The 18-month CPPE pathway does not need to be completed if the pharmacist meets a HEE (Health Education England) exemption such as completion of Clinical Diploma.

About us

The Green House Surgery currently has a registered patient list of approximately 10,000 patients residing in Redcar and surrounding areas.

We work from modern, purpose-built premises and benefit from ease of access to hospital-based diagnostics and other services. We have excellent public transport links (Redcar train stations are within walking distance) and have ample free on-site parking for both patients and staff.

Our existing clinical team consists of 4 GP Partners, Salaried GP, Paramedic Practitioner, Nurse Practitioners, Practice Nurses, Advanced HCAs, HCAs, Phlebotomists and Pharmacy Technicians.

As a member of Redcar Costal PCN, we benefit from having access to various ARRS practitioners and have good working relationships with other member practices.

Our excellent Practice Administrators and Management team provide nonclinical support and help reduce the administration burden on clinicians.

This resolute team provides an evolving healthcare and medical service to meet the varying needs of our patients, and, in turn, provides what we believe is a sustainable model of modern General Practice. We have an overarching vision of Putting Patients First and providing services that tailor their needs, which we strive to achieve through brilliant leadership, mentorship, teamwork, communication, problem- sharing and solving, training, education and continued development.

Date posted

08 July 2025

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

A3401-25-0001

Job locations

Redcar Primary Care Hospital

West Dyke Road

Redcar

Teesside

TS10 4NW

Job description

Job responsibilities

Primary Responsibilities

Patient facing Clinical Medication Review

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients within the practice, care homes and/or domiciliary visit to proactively manage polypharmacy and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.

Patient facing Long-term condition clinics

See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. Respiratory, Cardiovascular and Diabetes).

Clinics are done face to face, via telephone, home visits and in the future, possibly video consultations.

The post holder will undertake clinics for patients or develop one to one relationship in order to de-prescribe where necessary or offer clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement.

Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicine adherence ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to GPs for medicine improvement.

Patient facing Care Home and Domiciliary Clinical Medication Reviews

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for clinicians on prescribing and monitoring. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.

Management of common/minor/self- limiting ailments

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

Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate.

Medicines support

Provide patient facing clinics and a telephone helpline for those with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines in the practice.

Medicine information to practice staff and patients

Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines.

Suggesting and recommending solutions.

Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes

Telephone medicines support

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

Helping tackle the issue of unplanned hospital admissions

Review the use of medicines most associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews.

Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups.

Management of medicines at discharge from hospital

To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in Care Homes).

Signposting

Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc.

Repeat prescribing

Produce and implement a repeat prescribing policy within each PCN practice. Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review.

Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.

Risk stratification

Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both.

Service development

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).

Medicines quality improvement

Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the relevant practice team.

Medicines safety

Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance.

Care Quality Commission

Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

Collaborative Working Relationships

Participates in the Primary Care Network Multidisciplinary Team.

Liaises with ICB colleagues including ICB pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit in surgeries.

Foster and maintain strong links with all services across the PCN and neighbouring networks.

Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships.

Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care.

Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including

patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g. ICBs).

Can recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary.

Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams.

Liaises with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients including but not limited to:

Patients and their representatives.

GP, nurses, and other practice staff.

Other healthcare professionals including community pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, social prescribers, first contact physiotherapists, physicians associate and paramedics.

Community pharmacists and support staff

Other members of the medicines management (MM) team including pharmacists, technicians, and dieticians

Locality/GP prescribing lead

Community nurses and other allied health professionals

Hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimization

Professional Development

Work with your line manager to undertake continual personal and professional development, taking an active part in reviewing and developing the role and responsibilities.

Involved in one-to-one meetings with line manager monthly to discuss targets and outcomes achieved.

Adhere to organisational policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and health and safety.

Work with your line manager to access regular clinical supervision, to enable you to deal effectively with the difficult issues that people present.

Review yearly progress and develop clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others.

Participate in the delivery of formal education programmes.

Demonstrate an understanding of current educational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keep up to date with relevant clinical practice.