Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

See (where appropriate, and with support and supervision) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. hypertension, COPD, asthma).

Undertake clinical structured medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.

Managing 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.

Be available to offer advice and support to the Prescription Admin Team dealing with patients questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.

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 and providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes

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).

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

Support the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by ensuring patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.

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

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).

Support the delivery of QOF, LCS, and medicine optimisation programmes by working collaboratively with other Foundry team members and the ICB.

Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision- making.

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

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

Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economys policies and guidance and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs).

Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance.

Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.

Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.

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

To support public health campaigns.

To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)
• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.

Desirable

• Specialist knowledge acquired through post- graduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience.
• Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification.
• Completed the CPPE Pathway.
• A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working within an NHS setting.
• Knowledge of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.

Desirable

• Experience of working within a GP practice or Primary Care Network

Skills

Essential

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to recognise limitations and refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
• Work effectively independently and as a team member
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
• Self-motivated

Desirable

• Experience of documenting patient care in SystmOne

Other

Essential

• Current DBS.
• Safeguarding adult and children level three.
• Full 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.

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

Foundry Healthcare Lewes

Address

School Hill Medical Practice

33 High Street

Lewes

East Sussex

BN7 2LU

Employer's website

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