Job summary
Wootton Vale and Shortstown Surgery are seeking an enthusiastic clinical pharmacist to work on a full or part-time basis to join our teams working across both sites.
As an experienced clinical pharmacist, you will provide the following;
1. Carry out structured medication reviews, long term condition clinics, ensuring medicines optimisation and offering medicine information services to patients and clinicians.
2. Work collaboratively with our healthcare team that includes pharmacists, GPs, specialist nurses as well as AHPs.
3. Assess patients, devising, implementing, and agreeing management plans, and following approved protocols as appropriate.
4. Make onward referrals to other agencies and members of multidisciplinary teams. Training on local services will be provided.
Main duties of the job
5. Clinical medicines management.
6. Provide face to face/remote structured medication reviews.
7. Management of long-term conditions asthma/COPD, CVD, diabetes, dementia/frailty.
8. Medicines optimisation, review of monitoring needs and blood interpretation.
9. Management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing.
10. Manage prescription requests including authorisations and reauthorisations.
11. Medicines safety and quality improvement, incorporating the use of national tools.
12. Ensure both the public health and social care needs of patients within the GP practices.
13. Regular audits to improve and influence prescribing across the practice.
14. Support and supervise other staff in undergoing training.
About us
We are 2 practices who share the same clinical & management teams. Our ethos is to embrace new ways of working & workforce development and we have been involved in numerous early adopter and NHS pilots developing roles. We also work closely with our CCG in supporting quality & development in areas such as IT & medicines management.
The practices have a combined list size of 17,000. The two practice lists vary greatly in terms of demographic and depravation scores, thus providing a diverse, interesting mix of clinical challenge and will therefore appeal to clinicians looking to broaden their range of exposure and experience.
The team comprises: GP partners, 4 salaried GPs, 2 nurses, women's healthcare specialist, HCA, clinical pharmacists, pharmacy technician, 2 care coordinators, business director, practice manager and 16 admin staff.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Ifyou would like to find out more information about this role, please see theattached job specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
15. Masters degree MPharm.
16. Registered Pharmacist MRPharm.
17. Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Pharmacy or Pharmacy Practice (or equivalent).
Desirable
18. Basic Life Support.
19. Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or Pharmacy Practice.
20. Member of the RPS faculty.
21. Independent Prescribing qualification.
Experience
Essential
22. Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice.
23. Ability to work autonomously in managing own blood results and prescriptions.
24. Minimum 2 years' experience of general practice and/or secondary care.
25. Demonstrates an in-depth knowledge of medical conditions, treatments, and pharmacology.
26. Experience of supporting doctors in clinical decision making.
27. Ability to work autonomously within the scope of supervised practice.
28. Detailed knowledge of maintaining confidentiality and implementing data protection legislation requirements including information governance.