Job description
Role: Clinical Pharmacist (Primary Care) - candidates must hold an Independent Prescribing qualification
Location: Westwood Road Surgery, Reading
Salary: £24.67- £27.82 per hour depending on experience
Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week with the expectation of working extended access hours on a rota basis, shared with the wider clinical team. Extended access hours are 18:30-20:00 on a Monday, Thursday and every 1 in 5 Fridays.
Job summary
We are a rapidly growing GP-led organisation with a mission to ensure that all patients have access to comprehensive, coordinated, and continuous care within a sustainable primary care system. We appreciate that our whole primary care system is struggling, which is hurting patient care and staff happiness. We believe that we can turn this around by reimagining how primary care is delivered from the ground up by placing a focus on data insights, technology, and clinical innovation. Ultimately, we want to improve patient access, patient experience, and health outcomes to significantly increase the quality of care for our patients.
Main duties of the job
* Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their 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.
* Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the organisation and to help in tackling inequalities.
* Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care.
* Have 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 the wider health and social care system.
* Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with 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 and have access to appropriate clinical supervision.
* Each clinical pharmacist must receive a minimum of one supervision session per month by a senior clinical pharmacist.
* The senior clinical pharmacist must 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.
* To act as the point of contact for all medicine related matters, establishing positive working relationships.
* To consult patients within defined levels of competence and independently prescribe acute and repeat medication.
* To receive referrals and directed patients from triage services and other clinicians.
* To provide medication review services for patients in the practice.
* To manage a therapeutic drug monitoring system and the recall of patients taking high risk drugs, i.e., anticoagulants, anticonvulsants and DMARDs, etc.
* To deliver long term condition clinics and home visits, particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes, and prescribe accordingly.
* To provide pharmaceutical consultations to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team.
* To review medications for newly registered patients.
* To improve patient and carer understanding of confidence in and compliance with their medication.
* To encourage cost-effective prescribing throughout the organisation.
* To implement and embed a robust repeat prescribing system.
* To provide advice and answer medication related queries from patients and staff.
Who are we looking for? (Qualifications, Attributes and Experience)
Essential:
* Registered Pharmacist
* Pharmacy Degree
* Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
* Independent Prescriber
* Experience in chronic disease management and prescribing
* Provide evidence of continuous professional development
* Post-registration experience in primary/community/acute care
Desirable:
* UK Driving License
* Previous direct GP practice experience
* Experience in minor acute condition management and prescribing
Benefits:
* 27 days annual leave (pro-rata) plus 8 bank holidays (pro-rata)
* NHS Pension Scheme
* Life Assurance
* Income Protection
* Enhanced sick leave
* Enhanced family leave
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such will be necessary for a submission for the Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £24.67-£27.82 per hour
Expected hours: 37.5 per week
Work Location: In person
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