We are looking to appoint a new clinical pharmacist on a 12-month fixed term contract (with a view to permanent contract) for 25 hours per week to join our friendly team.
You will be working alongside 3 other clinical pharmacists at Village surgery, all with a wealth of knowledge and interests.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is a Clinical Pharmacist who acts within their professional boundaries, working alongside a team of pharmacists in general practice within the wider PCN.
They will improve patients' health outcomes and the efficiency of the primary care team by providing direct, accessible, and timely medicines expertise, including face-to-face contact with patients.
The post holder will be an integral part of the general practice team, as well as part of a wider pharmacist network and multi-disciplinary team. They will work to optimise medication issues to improve patient care and safety and support clinical staff in the management of patients.
About us
Village surgery is a friendly and approachable 5-partner GP practice in Derby, serving 12,000 patients drawn from the city and surrounding villages.
Job responsibilities
The Clinical Pharmacist in a general practice organisation has the following key responsibilities in relation to delivering health services:
1. 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.
2. Be a prescriber, or complete training to become a prescriber, and work with and alongside the general practice team.
3. 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).
4. Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines while helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the organisation and to help in tackling inequalities.
5. 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, while contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services.
6. Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste, and promote self-care.
7. 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.
8. Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across the wider health and social care system.
9. 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.
10. Be part of a professional clinical network and have access to appropriate clinical supervision.
11. Act as the point of contact for all medicine-related matters, establishing positive working relationships.
12. Consult patients within defined levels of competence and independently prescribe acute and repeat medication.
13. Receive referrals and directed patients from triage services and other clinicians.
14. Receive and resolve medicines queries from patients and other staff.
15. Provide medication review services for patients in the practice and during domiciliary visits to the local nursing home.
16. Manage a caseload of complex patients.
17. Manage a therapeutic drug monitoring system and the recall of patients taking high-risk drugs, i.e., anticoagulants, anticonvulsants, and DMARDs.
18. Deliver long-term condition clinics and home visits, particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes, and prescribe accordingly.
19. Provide pharmaceutical consultations to patients with long-term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team.
20. Review medications for newly registered patients.
21. Improve patient and carer understanding of confidence in and compliance with their medication.
22. Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation.
23. Encourage cost-effective prescribing throughout the organisation.
24. Implement and embed a robust repeat prescribing system.
25. Provide advice and answer medication-related queries from patients and staff.
26. Organise and oversee the organisation'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).
* Although optional for organisations other than a PCN, it is advisable that they are able to deliver the key responsibilities outlined in section B1 of the Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service 2024-25 specification.
* 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 awareness of common acute and chronic conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
* 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.
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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