Clinical Pharmacist

NHS; Dartford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a part-time Clinical Pharmacist to join their dedicated team. The role involves managing patient medications, conducting reviews, and supporting public health initiatives. The ideal candidate will have a Master of Pharmacy degree and a commitment to personal development. This position offers the chance to work closely with a multidisciplinary team to enhance patient care in the community.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years post registration experience.
• Experience in both primary and secondary care.

Responsibilities

• Manage medicines at discharge from hospitals.
• Conduct clinical medication reviews with patients.
• Provide telephone support for medicine-related queries.

Skills

Communication

Organisational skills

Teamwork

Education

Master of Pharmacy Degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

River Darent Medical Group is seeking an enthusiastic, highly-motivated and experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our friendly practice team and contribute to improving healthcare to our local community, with which we have strong links with. The post-holder would be working within a practice where we pride ourselves on supporting our patients and our staff.

The job is on part time basis for 20 hours per week. The post holder will be required to work on-site for all 20 hours per week. Please note remote working is not applicable in this role.

Main duties of the job

Work as part of a multidisciplinary dispensing team to develop and runprocesses for repeat prescription reauthorisation, management of medicines on transferof care and systems for safer prescribing.

Work with patients to help them managing their long-term conditions.

Working as an active member of the dispensing team.

About us

The role is based at River Darent Medical Group. The practice is part of Swanley & Rural PCN is made up of 2 GP practices in collectively serving over 37,000 registered patients.

RDMG is a two-sited practice with sites near to each other in SouthDarenth and Farningham. It serves 13,000patients with one main dispensary and a satellite dispensary serving roughly aquarter of the patients.

We work extremely closely with general practice but also in partnership with other local healthcare providers with a purpose to ensure viable GP services remain at the heart of local communities, providing sustainable and high-quality patient-focused healthcare.

Join our team and experience a workplace that truly values growth, collaboration, and impact. We take pride in fostering a supportive and inclusive environment where every team member is encouraged to listen, learn, and lead.

At our organisation, your professional growth matters we are committed to providing the resources and opportunities you need for continuous development, ensuring you thrive both in your role and your career.

Job responsibilities

Management of Medicines at Discharge from Hospital.

To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

Repeat prescribing

To help the practice in the repeat prescribing reauthorisation processby reviewing patient requests for changes in repeat prescriptions or repeatacute medication.

Telephone and patient facing medicines support

Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.

Medication review

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients

You may be asked to see patients with single medical problems wheremedicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma).

Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of this service that have medicinal components (e.g. advise on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).

Care Quality Commission

Work with the practice manager and GPs to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

Public health

To contribute to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, and adult immunisation programmes as per Public health England campaigns

Medicine information to practice staff and patients

Answers all medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff and patients with queries about medicines.

Information management

Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.

Undertake simple audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.

Implementation of local medicines management and national guidelines and formulary recommendations

Auditing practice's compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance.

Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.

Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

Key working relationships

GP, nurses and other practice staff

Primary Care Networks

Other members of the medicines optimisation team including the head

Locality / GP prescribing lead

Locality managers

Community nurses and other allied health professionals

Community pharmacists and support staff

Hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines

Responsibilities underpinning the role

To ensure patient questions and requests are dealt with promptly. Towork alongside the dispensary staff to help them in their questions. To plan andorganise the post holder's own workload, including audit and project work, andtraining sessions for members of the practice team and other partners arerequired

To record personally generated information and maintain a database of informationrelating to the work done in the practice

To maintain registration as a pharmacist and comply with appropriate professionalcodes

As appropriate to the post, to maintain and develop professional competence and expertise, keep up to date with medical/therapeutic evidence and opinion, and local and national service, legislation and policy developments, agree objectives and a personal development plan and participate in the appraisal process

To attend local, regional and national meetings of relevance

All employees should understand that it is their personal responsibility to comply with all organisational and statutory requirements (e.g. health and safety, equal treatment and diversity, confidentiality and clinical governance)

Person Specification

Experience

• At least 3 years post registration experience
• Experience working in both primary and secondary care

Knowledge

• Awareness of current issues from a primary and secondary perspective.
• Knowledge of NICE guidance relating to medicines optimisation.
• Good working knowledge of drug therapies.
• Familiarity with GP computer systems

Qualifications

• Registered pharmacist, i.e.: Master of Pharmacy Degree or equivalent, plus current registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
• Willingness to work towards independent prescribing qualification
• Commitment to personal development
• Evidence of ongoing education/training

Personal Skills and Attributes

• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Organisational skills.
• Calm and objective under pressure.
• Able to maintain and develop professional relationships.
• Able to work alone.
• Able to work in a team.
• Able to listen to others.
• Able to influence others.
• Able to identify when advice needs to be sought.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office packages.

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.