Clinical Pharmacist

West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group; Bury St Edmunds; Remote; GBP 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS pension scheme

Job summary

Guildhall & Barrow Surgery is seeking a qualified clinical pharmacist to join its busy practice, working as part of a multidisciplinary team. The role is primarily full-time, with potential for reduced hours for the right candidate. You will assess and treat patients, independently prescribe within competence, and contribute to medicines optimisation and clinics.

The post involves home visits, domiciliary reviews, and collaboration with GPs and nurses in a patient-centered setting.

Qualifications

• Must be a GPhC registered pharmacist.
• Hold or be working towards a GPhC independent prescribing qualification.
• Experience in managing pharmacy services in primary care.

Responsibilities

• Clinically assess and treat patients as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Provide medicines optimisation and repeat prescribing systems.
• Deliver long-term condition clinics and home visits.
• Supervise safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs; follow infection-control guidelines.
• Prescribe within defined competence and manage a caseload of complex patients.
• Encourage cost-effective prescribing and participate in clinical audits.

Skills

Primary care pharmacy experience

Pharmaceutical clinical services

Patient counseling

Education

GPhC registered pharmacist

GPhC independent prescribing qualification

Primary care pharmacy management experience

Job description

About the Role

The Guildhall & Barrow Surgery is looking to welcome a qualified and experienced clinical pharmacist into our busy practice, to play a full and active role within our multi-disciplinary team. The role is offered on a full-time basis although part time hours may be considered for the right candidate.

The main responsibilities of the role include:

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas
• Consult patients within defined levels of competence and independently prescribe
• Receive referrals and directed patients from triage services and other clinicians
• Receive and resolve medicines queries from patients and other staff
• Provide medication review services for patients in the practice and during domiciliary visits to the local nursing home
• Manage a caseload of complex patients, as appropriate
• Manage therapeutic drug monitoring system and recall of patients taking high risk drugs, i.e. anticoagulants, anticonvulsants and DMARDs etc
• Deliver long term conditions clinics and home visits particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes and prescribe accordingly
• Provide pharmaceutical consultations to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team
• Review medications for newly registered patients
• Improve patient and carer understanding of, confidence in and compliance with their medication
• Encourage cost-effective prescribing.
• Implement and embed a robust repeat prescribing system.
• Provide advice and answer medication related queries from patients and staff
• Medicines optimisation systems including the repeat prescribing and medication review systems
• Improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education to improve performance against NICE standards and clinical and prescribing guidance.
• Develop yourself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training and service redesign activities
• Ensure appropriate supervision of safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs. To apply infection-control measures within the practice according to local and national guidelines

Please see additional duties attached.

About the Candidate

To be considered for this position, you will require the following:

Essential:

• GPhC registered pharmacist
• Hold or be working towards an GPhC independent prescribing qualification
• Experience in managing pharmacy services in primary care

Desirable:

• Membership of the Royal College of Pharmacy
• Minimum of two years working as a pharmacist demonstrated within a practice portfolio

About Us

The Guildhall & Barrow Surgery is a friendly two site GP practice with a patient list size of approx 13,800. The practice is made up of 6 x GP Partners, 8 x salaried GP's, 1 x Senior Clinical Pharmacist, 2 x Advanced Nurse practitioners, 1 x Nurse prescriber (supported by a team of RGN's and HCA's). We also have a visiting paramedic, pharmacy technician and first contact physio service provided by BSE PCN. We are an accredited GP training practice and our clinical system is SystmOne.

Benefits

Benefits: NHS pension scheme.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note 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.