Clinical Pharmacist

NHS; Halesworth; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS is seeking a Clinical Pharmacist to join the South Waveney Primary Care Network, focusing on patient-facing roles and medicines optimisation. The role involves managing patient caseloads, conducting clinical reviews, and providing leadership within a multi-disciplinary team. Candidates must have relevant qualifications and be passionate about delivering high-quality care in general practice. Support for independent prescribing qualifications is available.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience.
• Independent prescriber or working towards it.
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of an integrated multi-disciplinary Primary Care team.
• Manage caseloads while ensuring effective medicine optimisation.
• Conduct clinical medication reviews with patients.

Skills

Communication

Problem solving

Interpersonal skills

Leadership

Negotiation

Education

Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council

Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

Go back South Waveney Alliance Primary Care Network

Clinical Pharmacist

The closing date is 02 July 2025

South Waveney Primary Care Network is seekingto appoint a Clinical Pharmacist to join an established team of Practiceand Network Pharmacists. The post holder will be employed by Cutlers Hill Surgery, with a GP Mentor and where an established Clinical Pharmacist for peer support are based. The established CPPE pathway for clinical pharmacists new to primary care and independent prescribing qualification are supported.

Part time working/job share will be considered.

For further information or an informal discussion, please contact [e-mail]

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as part of an integrated multi-disciplinary Primary Care team in a patient-facing role, managing caseloads, as well as providing clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement. The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice.

About us

South Waveney Alliance Network comprises of 5 member GP practices:

Cutlers Hill Surgery

Longshore Surgeries

Sole Bay Health Centre

Please see our practice websites for more information.

Job responsibilities

See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiplemedical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma).

Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review ofmonitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicinestaking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicinesoptimisation).

Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists orGPs for medicine improvement.

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients andproduce recommendations for nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients andproduce recommendations for nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.

Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicinesordering and administration.

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients andproduce recommendations for nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring.

Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary caseconferences.

Manage caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limitingailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence.

Signpost to community pharmacy and referring to GPs orother healthcare professionals where appropriate.

Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions,queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice

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

Answer relevant medicine related enquiries from GPs, otherpractice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patientswith queries about medicines.

Suggest and recommend solutions.

Provide follow up for patients to monitor the effect ofany changes

Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplannedhospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patientreviews.

Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of thesemedicines to high risk patient groups across the Network.

Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals,intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifyingunexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists toensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicinessupply to high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicinecompliance aids or those in care homes).

Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriatehealthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriateperiod of time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions,long term condition reviews etc.

Review and update practice repeat prescribing policies witha view to creating Network policies adopted by all 5 practices.

Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process byreviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicinesreaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review.

Support the development or review of procedures to ensure patientshave appropriate monitoring in place and work towards Network SOPs based onbest practice.

Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harmfrom medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patientrelated, medicine related, or both.

Share findings across the Network to ensure uptake of bestpractice

Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development andimplementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice ontreatment pathways and patient information leaflets), ensuring good Networkcommunication and uptake of new practice across the Network.

Analyse, interpret and present medicines data from theNetwork to highlight issues and risks to support decision making and promotequality improvement.

Undertake clinical audits of prescribing, feedback theresults and implement changes via Network meetings.

Work with the Network Pharmacists toensure Network implementation of changes to medicines that result from MHRAalerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

Support all practices to ensure there is an effectiveprocedure in place to implement actions identified in MHRA alerts.

Monitor each practices prescribing against the local healtheconomy's RAG list/Dashboard and make recommendations to GPs for medicines thatshould be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care(amber drugs).

Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a practiceformulary that is hosted on the practices computer system. Work towards a Network formulary.

Audit practices' compliance against NICE technologyassessment guidance and share findings across the Network and support implementation of quality improvements.

Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribingmessages to the Network.

Provide education and training to primary healthcare team ontherapeutics and medicines optimisation.

Work with the general practice teams to ensure the practicesare compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

Support public health campaigns.

Provide specialist knowledge on all public healthprogrammes available to the general public.

Line management of practice pharmacy technician, where in post.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience.
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
• Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience.
• Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification.
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.

Experience

• An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices.
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients).
• Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
• Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
• Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/ persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/ agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers.
• Work effectively independently and as a team member.
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
• Produce timely and informative reports.
• Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines.
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
• Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships.
• Working knowledge of SystmOne.

Other

• Self-Motivation
• Adaptable
• Safeguarding adult and children level three
• Immunisation status
• Basic life support training
• Full 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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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