The Millwood Partnership is looking for an enthusiastic Clinical Pharmacist Team Lead to join our pharmacy team.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our practice team. You will effectively lead our pharmacy team to deliver patient-centred pharmaceutical care to our patients in General Practice.
You will improve patients' health outcomes and the efficiency of the primary care team by providing direct, accessible and timely medicines and expertise including face-to-face contact with patients.
You will be an integral part of the general practice team, as well as part of a wider pharmacist network and multi-disciplinary team. This includes being a conduit of patient medicines information into and out of hospitals. You will work to optimise medication issues to improve patient care and safety, and support clinical staff in the management of patients.
About us
We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Pharmacist Team Lead to join our forward-thinking practice. We have 3 GP Partners, 5 Salaried GPs and we are looking to expand our team. We are a total triage practice using Footfall for all of our appointment requests. We have capped numbers per day and our clinical staff book their own appointments in line with their judgement of the patients' condition. You will lead and develop our Pharmacy Team consisting of Pharmacy Technicians and Prescription Clerks, and our wider team of doctors and clinicians.
Job responsibilities
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 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.
4. Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst 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 and quality improvement, whilst 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 and ensure better access to healthcare.
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 and clinical research with medicines.
10. Consult patients within defined levels of competence and independently prescribe acute and repeat medication.
11. Receive referrals and directed patients from triage services and other clinicians.
12. Receive and resolve medicines queries from patients and other staff.
13. Provide medication review services for patients in the practice and during domiciliary visits to the local nursing home.
14. Manage a caseload of complex patients.
15. Manage a therapeutic drug monitoring system and the recall of patients taking high-risk drugs.
16. Deliver long-term condition clinics and home visits, particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes, and prescribe accordingly.
17. Provide pharmaceutical consultations to patients with long-term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team.
18. Review medications for newly registered patients.
19. Improve patient and carer understanding of confidence in and compliance with their medication.
20. Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation.
21. Encourage cost-effective prescribing throughout the organisation.
22. Implement and embed a robust repeat prescribing system.
23. Provide advice and answer medication-related queries from patients and staff.
24. Organise and oversee the organisation's medicines optimisation systems, including the repeat prescribing and medication review systems.
25. Improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education.
26. Develop yourself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training and service redesign activities.
27. Ensure appropriate supervision of safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs.
28. Provide subject matter expertise on medication monitoring.
29. Support clinicians with the management of patients suffering from drug and alcohol dependencies.
30. Actively signpost patients to the correct healthcare professional.
31. Manage a caseload of complex patients and provide advice for the GP management of more complex patients.
32. Review the latest guidance, ensuring the organisation conforms to NICE, CQC etc.
33. Provide targeted support and proactive reviews for vulnerable, complex patients.
34. Handle prescription queries and requests directly.
35. Provide proactive leadership on medicines and prescribing systems to the organisation, patients and their carers.
36. Support in the delivery of enhanced services and other service requirements on behalf of the organisation.
37. Participate in the management of patient complaints when requested to do so.
38. Undertake all mandatory training and induction programmes.
39. Contribute to and embrace the spectrum of clinical governance.
40. Attend a formal appraisal with your manager at least every 12 months.
41. Contribute to public health campaigns through advice or direct care.
42. Maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area at all times.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* GPhC registered pharmacist.
* An appreciation of the nature of Primary Care prescribing.
* Experience and awareness of common acute and chronic conditions.
* An appreciation of the new NHS landscape.
* Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information effectively.
* Excellent leadership and organisational skills.
* Knowledge of IT systems.
* Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and renew general medicine optimisation issues.
* Polite, clear telephone manner.
* Effective time management skills.
* Demonstrate personal accountability and emotional resilience.
* Experience of pharmacy services in primary care.
* In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge.
* Clinical system IT knowledge of SystmOne.
Personal Qualities
* Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies.
* Ability to use own initiative, discretion and sensitivity.
* Able to get along with people from all backgrounds.
* Flexible and cooperative.
* Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk.
* Sensitive and empathetic in distressing situations.
* Problem solving and analytical skills.
* Ability to maintain confidentiality.
* Flexibility to work outside of core hours.
* Evidence of continuing professional development.
* Full UK Driving Licence.
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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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