An exciting opportunity has arisen for the position of Clinical Pharmacist to join our welcoming and friendly team at Omnia Medical Practice, a forward-thinking practice based in the East of Birmingham.
We are looking to employ an experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our existing team on a full-time basis to help us expand and develop our chronic LTC management.
The successful candidate will be joining a team of 7 Partners, 3 Salaried GPs, 1 Pharmacist, 1 ANP, 3 Physician Associates, 3 Nurses, and 4 HCAs.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is a pharmacy technician registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council. They are required to act within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a multi-disciplinary team within general practice and a Primary Care Network (PCN). The post holder will contribute to improving prescribing practice, patient care, and deliver the Directed Enhanced Service PCN prescribing agenda. This includes improving repeat prescribing processes in General Practices within the PCN, promoting digitalisation, reducing medicines waste, and minimising clinical risk associated with medicines taking.
The post holder will help patients to get the best from their medicines, operating within clear protocols and guidance. They will be responsible for encouraging the development of better understanding of the principles of medicines optimisation throughout the practice.
The post holder will work with all sectors of pharmacy across the health system to improve population health, demonstrating improvement in patient outcomes and working to reduce health inequalities across the practice, contributing to improving the efficiency of general practice and delivering a best-in-class service.
Job responsibilities
The clinical pharmacist in a general practice organization has the following key responsibilities in relation to delivering health services:
1. Assess and triage patients, including same-day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE guidelines, and local care pathways) or make necessary referrals to other members of the primary care team.
2. Be a prescriber, or completing training to become a prescriber, and work with and alongside the general practice team.
3. Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines while helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the organization and to help in tackling inequalities.
4. Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste, and promote self-care.
5. 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.
6. Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across the wider health and social care system.
7. Consult patients within defined levels of competence and independently prescribe acute and repeat medication.
8. Receive referrals and directed patients from triage services and other clinicians.
9. Receive and resolve medicines queries from patients and other staff.
10. Deliver long-term condition clinics and home visits, particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes, and prescribe accordingly.
11. Review medications for newly registered patients.
12. Improve patient and carer understanding of confidence in and compliance with their medication.
13. Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation.
14. Encourage cost-effective prescribing throughout the organization.
15. Organise and oversee the organization's medicines optimisation systems, including the repeat prescribing and medication review systems.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Be able to practice and prescribe safely and effectively in a primary care setting (for example, the CPPE clinical pharmacist training pathways).
* GPhC Registered Pharmacist.
* Hold or be working towards a GPhC independent prescribing qualification.
* Minor ailments certification.
* Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
* Working towards faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
* MUR and repeat dispensing certification.
Experience
* An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practice.
* An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing, and strategies for improving prescribing.
* Experience and an awareness of common acute and chronic conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
* An appreciation of the new NHS landscape, including the relationships between individual practices, PCNs, and the commissioners.
* Minimum of two years working as a pharmacist demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
* Experience in managing pharmacy services in primary care.
* In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
* Understanding of the mentorship process.
* Broad knowledge of general practice.
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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