We are excited to offer a unique opportunity to join our dynamic team as a Clinical Pharmacist, working alongside our experienced Clinical Pharmacist Partner. This additional role is integral to enhancing the quality of care for our patients, focusing on operational efficiency and patient outcomes. If you are passionate about making a real difference in patient care and enjoy a multi-disciplinary approach to healthcare, we want to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
As a Clinical Pharmacist, you will play a pivotal role in chronic disease management, providing clinical medication reviews, particularly for patients with complex polypharmacy, older individuals, those in residential care, and those with co-morbidities. You will be at the forefront of improving the quality of care and optimising medication use.
* Delivering patient-facing services as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
* Taking responsibility for chronic disease management and clinical medication reviews.
* Offering clinical expertise to manage polypharmacy and reduce medication-related risks.
* Supporting general practice staff with prescription and medication queries, including repeat prescriptions and acute medication requests.
* Leading efforts in medicines optimisation, quality improvement, and adherence to safe prescribing practices.
* Providing leadership and guidance on the quality and outcomes framework, as well as enhanced services.
* Collaborating with community and hospital pharmacies to improve patient outcomes, streamline access to care, and help manage the practice workload.
About us
We are a busy and well-established practice located in a growing market town in South Norfolk, offering a vibrant community, great local amenities, and proximity to Norwich and the coast. Our practice is part of the Breckland Alliance PCN, working alongside two other local practices. You will be joining a dedicated clinical team that includes GPs, paramedics, advanced nurse practitioners, practice nurses, and healthcare assistants.
At our practice, we pride ourselves on fostering a supportive and collaborative environment. We enjoy working with and supporting the learning of future healthcare professionals, including trainee nursing associates, paramedics, and physician associates.
Our modern, purpose-built, and spacious facility allows us to adapt our services to meet the needs of our growing patient list.
Job responsibilities
Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility
* See patients in multimorbidity clinics and in partnership with primary healthcare colleagues and implement improvements to patients' medicines, including de-prescribing.
* Manage own caseload and run long-term condition clinics where responsible for prescribing as an independent prescriber for conditions where medicines have a large component (e.g. medicine optimisation for stable angina symptom control, warfarin monitoring and dose adjustment for patients requiring long-term anticoagulants).
* Review the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation).
* Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients with multimorbidity and poly-pharmacy and implement own prescribing changes (as an independent prescriber) and order relevant monitoring tests.
* Manage own caseload of care home residents. Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients with multimorbidity and poly-pharmacy and implement own prescribing changes (as an independent prescriber) and order relevant monitoring tests.
* Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
* Manage own caseload of vulnerable housebound patients at risk of hospital admission and harm from poor use of medicines.
* Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences, identifying key areas of need for vulnerable patients and formulating care plans.
* Provide patient-facing clinics for those with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines in the practice.
* Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines.
* Provide out of hours/on call/extended services for the practice and the patients, which can include patient-facing and telephone consultations.
* Answer relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines.
* Devise and implement practice searches to identify cohorts of patients most likely to be at risk of an unplanned admission and readmissions from medicines.
* To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care, and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes.
* Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time.
* Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy.
* Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
* Support public health campaigns.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
* Masters degree in pharmacy (Mpharm or equivalent)
* Minimum 2 years post-qualification experience
* Independent prescriber
* Experience of working in general practice environment
* An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
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.
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