Clinical Pharmacist - Kingsbury Road Surgery
We have an exciting opportunity for a clinical pharmacist to join our team at Kingsbury Road Surgery.
This role is for 20 hours per week (0.53WTE) to be worked as 4 hours per day, Monday to Friday.
The position of clinical pharmacist plays an essential role in improving the healthcare we provide to our patients, helping to deliver consistency and excellence in medicines optimisation.
Main Duties of the Job
We are looking for a clinical pharmacist who will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, developing and managing medicines optimisation services within our practice. This role involves demonstrating improvements in value and patient outcomes and contributing to reducing health inequalities through the safe and appropriate use of medicines.
About Us
This role will be based at Kingsbury Road Surgery. We are a long-established practice that offers a high standard of modern medical care. At Kingsbury Road Surgery, we aim to treat all our patients promptly, courteously, and in complete confidence. Kingsbury Road Surgery is part of Our Health Partnership.
Our Health Partnership was set up by local GPs who are passionate about providing high-quality primary care and using their time and skills effectively to benefit patients. We are currently a GP partnership of 30 practices with 39 sites, serving around 280,000 patients in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Shropshire.
The partnership offers a shared administrative and management structure, reducing the time doctors have to spend on admin. It opens up economies of scale to get the best value from budgets and can access new funding streams that are only available to large GP organisations. It has the resources to develop innovative services and effective partnerships with local hospitals and care services.
Job Responsibilities
The post holder is a clinical pharmacist who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of healthcare practitioners within general practice.
The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff regarding prescription and medication queries. They will perform medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and implement systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patients in the practice.
The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. They will take responsibility for areas of medicines optimisation within the practice and undertake structured clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.
The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement (QI) and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services at practice and PCN level.
The post holder will work with all sectors of pharmacy across the health system and the wider OHP organisation to improve population health, demonstrating improvement in patient outcomes and working to reduce health inequalities, contributing to improving the efficiency of general practice and delivering a best-in-class service.
The post holder will be supported to develop their role in line with the OHP workforce strategy, which will include becoming and operating as a non-medical prescriber. This role will be reviewed at least annually, where the Job Description may be updated in line with the needs of the organisation.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
* May hold or be working towards an independent prescribing qualification.
Experience
* Experience working as a clinical pharmacist.
* Involving patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE and local best practice guidelines.
* NB: it is anticipated that the level of qualification, skill, and competence held will vary according to the level of position and the components of the role being carried out, see person specification for details.
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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