Job summary
Dryland Surgery is looking for a motivated and enthusiastic Clinical Pharmacist to be an integral part of our multi-disciplinary team, driving positive changes in healthcare for local people.
Main Duties
1. To undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations with patients.
2. To carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration, supporting the Clinical Pharmacists structured medication reviews and medicines reconciliation.
3. To support care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings, linking with local community pharmacies.
4. To utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively.
5. To provide expertise to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health inequalities.
6. To manage shared care protocols and liaise with Clinical Pharmacists for more complex patients.
7. To support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing locally.
8. To support the wider multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation processes are being followed.
About Us
Dryland Surgery has a growing population and strives to be a great place to work while providing the best care possible to our patients.
We have an established team of 3 partners, 2 Salaried GPs, 1 Lead Nurse, 2 ANPs and Practice Nurses. We value the low turnover of staff we have achieved which gains the rewards continuity of roles brings in understanding our 12,000 patients and their families at our high-QOF achieving practice.
We are a mixed team of experienced, long standing staff and newly qualified members and we believe in supporting and developing all our staff to achieve what they want out of their career.
Feel free to contact our Lead Nurse, Stephanie Archer or Practice Manager Dawn Savage for an informal chat about the practice and to get a feel for the friendly supportive team culture we thrive on.
Date Posted
10 April 2025
Pay Scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience
Contract
Permanent
Working Pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Reference Number
A0395-25-0001
Job Location
1 Field Street, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN16 8JZ
Job Responsibilities
To work as part of the primary care team in the practice supporting the team to help achieve efficiencies and effectiveness. To support with leading improvements to maximise safe, cost-effective best practice in prescribing to improve the quality of patient care.
The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role.
They will help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patients in the GP practice.
The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the Practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.
The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries.
The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation, quality improvement, maintaining expenditure within set budgetary limits and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
The post holder will ensure that the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacists to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload.
The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice.
Role Responsibilities
1. Provide telephone support for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines and acute medication requests.
2. To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.
3. Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).
4. Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for Nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.
5. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
6. Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.
7. Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review.
8. Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches.
9. Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components.
10. Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
Person Specification
Experience Essential
* Understanding of the NHS and Primary Care services
* Knowledge of confidentiality in the workplace and information governance
* A good level of knowledge and understanding of the primary care sector and the healthcare sector
* Extensive knowledge of IT programs and software such as Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and the internet
* A good level of knowledge and understanding of medical terminology
Qualifications Essential
* GPC Registration
* Evidence of CPD
* Post graduate masters or diploma in clinical pharmacy, management or equivalent (or working towards) or equivalent
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer Details
Dryland Medical Centre
1 Field Street, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN16 8JZ
Website: drylandsurgery.co.uk
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