Job summary
Clinical Pharmacist - Warwickshire East
South Warwickshire GP Federation
Salary: Ranges from £46,155 to £50,183 - dependent on experience
Job type: Full time, Permanent, x1 position
Location:The successful candidate will be required to be based at Fenny Compton. Due to the geography and nature of the role a clean UK driving license and full use of car is essential.
Warwickshire East are looking to recruit two Clinical Pharmacists who are passionate for delivering a quality service to their patients. The Clinical Pharmacist role supports to improve patients health outcomes and of the efficiency of the primary care team by providing direct, accessible and timely medicines expertise, including face to face. Clinical Pharmacist proactively transfer workload relating to medicines optimisation issues to improve patients care safety and free up clinical staff to spend more time on clinical care.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will help patients to get the best from their medicines by switching medications to agreed and approved protocols, improving repeat prescribing processes in General Practice, including promotion of repeat dispensing and online ordering, minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.
About us
SWGP Federation is made up of GP practices from areas including Warwick, Leamington, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Kenilworth. We work together to deliver enhanced services for the 300,000 patients we cover, as well as improving working practices for our staff. We are proud to offer high levels of patient care across South Warwickshire. Our purpose is to grow, support and enable Primary Care in South Warwickshire by offering additional services and enabling individual practices to focus more time on delivering patient care.
o 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
o NHS Pension
o Health & Wellbeing support
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Duties
- To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using extensive experience and in-depth knowledge to be directly responsible for care and prescribing of defined cohort(s) of patients
- To deliver and develop pharmacy led medicines optimisation working with general practice and the wider multidisciplinary team, ensuring practice remains up to date
- To lead and promote, support and facilitate medicines optimisation for specialist area in the wider medicines agenda ensuring best value, reduced harm and improved outcomes.
- To lead and deliver evaluation and audit of service delivery for specialist area in order to ensure a high-quality service and to further develop provision.
- To work to the principles of Medicines Optimisation and relevant up to date national guidelines and evidence base.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main Duties
- To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using extensive experience and in-depth knowledge to be directly responsible for care and prescribing of defined cohort(s) of patients
- To deliver and develop pharmacy led medicines optimisation working with general practice and the wider multidisciplinary team, ensuring practice remains up to date
- To lead and promote, support and facilitate medicines optimisation for specialist area in the wider medicines agenda ensuring best value, reduced harm and improved outcomes.
- To lead and deliver evaluation and audit of service delivery for specialist area in order to ensure a high-quality service and to further develop provision.
- To work to the principles of Medicines Optimisation and relevant up to date national guidelines and evidence base.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
- Extensive knowledge of medicines optimisation through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training.
- Member of GPHC.
- Understanding of the current national policies those impacting on medicines optimisation services.
- Considers most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery; can take actions which support and promote this agenda.
- Sound knowledge of medicines legislation and the vision for the development of clinical pharmacists within primary care.
- Experience of a patient focused role and consultation skills to apply knowledge in a format patients/carer can understand.
- Demonstrates understanding of legal, governance and ethical frameworks within which pharmacists and primary/secondary.
Desirable
- GPHC Independent Prescribing Qualification.
- Good understanding of primary care.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
- Extensive knowledge of medicines optimisation through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training.
- Member of GPHC.
- Understanding of the current national policies those impacting on medicines optimisation services.
- Considers most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery; can take actions which support and promote this agenda.
- Sound knowledge of medicines legislation and the vision for the development of clinical pharmacists within primary care.
- Experience of a patient focused role and consultation skills to apply knowledge in a format patients/carer can understand.
- Demonstrates understanding of legal, governance and ethical frameworks within which pharmacists and primary/secondary.
Desirable
- GPHC Independent Prescribing Qualification.
- Good understanding of primary care.
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).
Additional information
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).
