The Esplanade Surgery are seeking a motivated and experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our General Practice team. The Clinical Pharmacist will play a pivotal role in supporting the management of patients with chronic diseases, optimising medicines, improving patient outcomes, and contributing to the overall health and well-being of the community. Please note this is not a remote role.
Main duties of the job
The role of the clinical pharmacist in primary care is changing rapidly. The provision of a prescription is the single most common outcome from a consultation. Medicine monitoring and medicines safety has risen exponentially over recent years and combined with the complexity of those living with multiple long term conditions and frailty means clinical pharmacy is a core part of general practice.
Primary care needs to be ambitious to pro-actively help patients stay safe, well and out of hospital as well as ensuring that general practice remains resilient in their ability to provide the increasing range of services.
Job responsibilities
The following describes the key responsibilities that the postholder will deliver and/or work towards delivering with supported and on-going development:
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. Take responsibility 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 and those with multiple co-morbidities.
3. Be a prescriber, or be willing to undertake training to become a prescriber, and work with and alongside the general practice team.
4. Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients to help in tackle inequality.
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, whilst contributing to the quality and outcomes framework (QoF) 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 neighbouring practices and 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. To provide support to pharmacist colleagues in the clinical aspects of medicine reviews, clinical audit, practice research and governance.
11. Share outcomes of prescribing, clinical, service and patient outcomes audits within our practice and across the locality in order to drive service and practice improvement.
12. To respond to and act on MHRA drug alerts, implementing and communicating any medication changes required as a result.
13. To monitor medicines and prescribing expenditure at practice level and propose efficiencies to ensure delivery within budget.
14. Be part of a professional clinical network and have access to appropriate clinical supervision.
Person Specification
Experience
* Compiling protocols and clinical guidelines
* Audit
* Recent primary care or applicable experience
Qualifications
* Registered Pharmacist with GPhC
* Masters in Pharmacy degree
* Independent prescribing
* Membership Primary Care Pharmacy Association (PCPA)
* Specialist knowledge through a postgraduate diploma or equivalent
* Completion of the Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway (PCPEP)
Other
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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