ARRS Clinical Pharmacist

Integrated Care System; Southampton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a Clinical Pharmacist, where your expertise will contribute to patient care and safety. Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to optimize prescribing practices and enhance clinical outcomes for a diverse patient population. A dynamic and supportive environment awaits you, ideal for professionals looking to make a difference.

Qualifications

• Independent prescriber with at least 2 years post-registration experience.
• Evidence of recent CPD.
• Experience working in a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Conduct structured medication reviews and optimise prescribing for long-term conditions.
• Provide expert advice and support to patients and colleagues.
• Undertake clinical medication reviews and manage chronic disease care.

Skills

Clinical Assessment

Medication Management

Patient Consultation

Team Collaboration

Auditing Skills

Education

Degree in Pharmacy

Registered with GPhC

Completion of CPPE Clinical Pharmacist Training Pathway

Job description

At Peartree Practice, we are seeking a Clinical Pharmacist to join our supportive and friendly team, where your expertise is valued and your ideas shape the future of patient care.

As a valued member of the Peartree Practice, your key duties will include:

• Conduct structured medication reviews and optimise prescribing for long-term conditions.
• Promote safer prescribing practices and reduce medication-related harm.
• Use audits to enhance clinical outcomes and improve patient safety.
• Provide expert advice and support to patients and colleagues, including our medicines management team.
• Support elements of the Quality and Outcomes Framework, local Medicines Optimisation Incentive Scheme and Local Enhanced Services.
• Contribute to the evolution of pharmacy services in primary care.
• Provide expert advice and support to patients and colleagues, including our medicines management team.
• Support elements of the Quality and Outcomes Framework, local Medicines Optimisation Incentive Scheme and Local Enhanced Services.

Review the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines, ensuring they get the best use of their medicines.

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy and implement own prescribing changes and order relevant monitoring tests.

Main duties of the job

1.Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in apatient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expertknowledge of medicines for specific disease areas

2.Be responsible for the care management ofpatients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews toproactively manage people with complex polypharmacy

3.Provide specialist expertise in the use ofmedicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social careneeds of patients at the practice and to help in tackling inequalities

4.Provide proactive support to the MedicinesManagement team, ensuring high standards of safe patient care

5.Provide leadership on person-centred medicinesoptimisation and qualityimprovement, while contributing to the quality and outcomes framework andenhanced services

6.Through structured medication reviews, supportpatients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste andpromote self-care

7.Have a role in supporting further integration ofgeneral practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community andhospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access tohealthcare and help manage general practice workload

8.Develop relationships and work closely withother pharmacy professionals across the local community and the wider healthand social care system

9. Agree and review prescribing formularies andprotocols and monitor compliance levels

About us

We are a diverse and friendlyteam of GPs, Physician Associate, Clinical Pharmacists, Advanced NursePractitioners, Paramedic, Social Prescriber, Nurses and HCAs who work togetherto provide high-quality care for 20,000 patients in the Southampton area.

We are a well organised andhardworking team with a long-established high QoF achievement. We activelysupport learning through regular clinical meetings and teaching events.Everyone has an opportunity to voice opinions as to how the practice can be improved.The clinical workload is set at a realistic level, with time allocated foradmin and additional responsibilities.

Our friendly and supportiveadmin/reception team assist in reducing admin workload as much as possible. Weare also a teaching practice for allied professional students across Hampshire.

During the COVID pandemic, wehave adapted our service to operate a triage system that helps us identify andprioritise our sickest patients and those who can safely be re-directed toself-care services. We also launched an online platform called eConsult, wherepatients can contact us digitally. All our rooms are equipped with videocalling and double screen monitors.

We are active in the BitternePrimary Care Network, with a partner having shared responsibility as a clinicaldirector. Our PCN Education Environment Lead also helps to ensure staffopportunities to meet any personal development goals.

Job responsibilities

The following is not an exhaustive list, and the post holder may occasionally need to undertake additional duties as required by the PCN.

• Promote safer prescribing practices and reduce medication-related harm.
• Use audits to enhance clinical outcomes and improve patient safety.

1. inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties), liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation

2. Be part of a professional clinical network and have access to appropriate clinical supervision

3. To act as a point of contact for all medicine related matters, establishing positive working relationships

4. To consult patients within defined levels of competence and independently prescribe acute and repeat medication

5. To receive referrals and directed patients from triage services and other clinicians

6. To receive and resolve medicines queries from patients and other staff

7. To provide medication review services for patients in the practice and during domiciliary visits to the local nursing home

8. To manage a caseload of complex patients

9. To manage a therapeutic drug monitoring system and the recall of patients taking high risk drugs, i.e., anticoagulants, anticonvulsants and DMARDs etc.

10. To deliver long term conditions clinics particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes and prescribe accordingly

11. To provide pharmaceutical consultations to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team

12. To review medications for newly registered patients

13. To improve patient and carer understanding of confidence in and compliance with their medication

14. To encourage cost-effective prescribing throughout the practice

15. To liaise with the clinical partners and implement and embed a robust repeat prescribing system for use across the practice

16. To provide advice and answer medication related queries from patients and staff

17. To organise and oversee the practices medicines optimisation systems including the repeat prescribing and medication review systems

18. To improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education to improve performance against NICE standards and clinical and prescribing guidance

19. To provide subject matter expertise on medication monitoring, implementing and embedding a system

20. To actively signpost patients to the correct healthcare professional

21. To review the latest guidance ensuring the organisation conforms to NICE, CQC etc.

22. To provide targeted support and proactive reviews for vulnerable, complex patients and those at risk of admission and re-admission to secondary care

23. To handle prescription queries and requests directly

24. To support in the delivery of enhanced services and other service requirements on behalf of the practice

25. To participate in the management of patient complaints when requested to do so and participate in the identification of any necessary learning brought about through clinical incidents and near-miss events

26. To undertake all mandatory training and induction programmes

27. To contribute to and embrace the spectrum of clinical governance

28. To attend a formal appraisal with your manager at least every 12 months. Once a performance/training objective has been set, progress will be reviewed on a regular basis so that new objectives can be agreed

29. To contribute to public health campaigns (e.g., COVID-19 or flu clinics) through advice or direct care

30. To maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area at all times.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree in Pharmacy
• GPhC registered with current registration
• Evidence of recent CPD
• Independent prescriber
• At least 2 years post-registration experience in a hospital, community or general practice setting
• Experience working with clinicians and multidisciplinary team
• Minor ailments certification
• Completion of the CPPE Clinical Pharmacist training pathway

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.