Job summary
The post holder will be a pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacists in general practice. In this role they will be supported by a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist who will develop, manage, and mentor them.
The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews toproactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.
The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff withregards to prescription and medication queries. They will help support therepeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, andmedicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing,providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both publicand social care needs of patient in the GP practice(s).
The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement.
The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice.
The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become anon-medical prescriber.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the role include but not limited to :
- Patient facing long-term condition clinics and clinical medication review
- Providing telephone and face to face support for patients
- Providing medicines information support to practice staff and other health care professionals
- Medicines reconciliation and management of medicines after discharge of patients from hospital
- Signposting patients to appropriate health care services
- Initiating and maintaining patients on electronic repeat dispensing
- Assisting specialist clinical pharmacists with service improvement project and clinical governance audits.
About us
We are an award winning and CQC rated good, health and social care Trust that delivers care to communities in Hull, East Yorkshire, Scarborough and Ryedale and Whitby. We deliver safe, effective and integrated health services that improve the physical, mental and social health and wellbeing of our patients and service users.
To find out more about our wide range of services including mental health, learning disabilities, children and young people service, Forensic, Community and Primary Care visit our website humber.nhs.uk/Services
You will join our team of over 3600 colleagues that work together across our wide geography and specialties to change lives every day. We're extremely proud of our Trust community and we know you can expect to receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need from your new team to get you started.
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development to ensure the delivery of high quality, person-centred and compassionate care to patients. We value our staff and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills and competencies to deliver outstanding care.
We Trust recognises the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Professional Registration
Essential
- Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical society
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)
Desirable
- Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
- Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification
Skills, Competence and Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience.
- An appreciation of the nature of general practice, understanding the concept of rationale prescribing and strategies for improvement
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
- Good IT skills and excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g., Patients)
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and can refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
- Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
- Influence/motivate/ persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
- Work effectively independently and as a team member
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
Desirable
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence- based healthcare.
- Can plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
- Produce timely and informative reports
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
Person Specification
Professional Registration
Essential
- Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical society
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)
Desirable
- Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
- Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification
Skills, Competence and Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience.
- An appreciation of the nature of general practice, understanding the concept of rationale prescribing and strategies for improvement
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
- Good IT skills and excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g., Patients)
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and can refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
- Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
- Influence/motivate/ persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
- Work effectively independently and as a team member
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
Desirable
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence- based healthcare.
- Can plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
- Produce timely and informative reports
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical 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.
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).
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.
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).
