Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using your expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
• Be a prescriber, or completing training to become a prescriber, and work with and alongside the general practice team.
• Be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP Stop Over Medication Programme).
• Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the PCNs practice(s) and to help in tackling inequalities.
• Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
• Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care.
• Take a leadership role in supporting further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload.
• Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across PCNs and the wider health and social care system.
• Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaisonwith specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties), liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation.

Be part of a professional clinical network.

The postholder will have access to appropriate clinical supervision. Appropriate clinical supervision means:

• Each clinical pharmacist will receive a minimum of one supervision session per month by a senior clinical pharmacist.
• A senior clinical pharmacist will receive a minimum of one supervision session every three months by a GP clinical supervisor.
• Each clinical pharmacist will have access to an assigned GP clinical supervisor for support and development.
• A ratio of one senior clinical pharmacist to no more than five junior clinical pharmacists, with appropriate peer support and supervision in place.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Must be registered as a Pharmacist with the GPhC.
• Enrolled or completed CPPE Training Pathway (18 month course).

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

Clinical Pharmacist Solutions

Address

Chobham, Woking

Chobham, Woking

GU24 9LU

Employer's website

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