Clinical Pharmacist

NHS; Harlow; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Harlow is seeking a Clinical Pharmacist to join the Primary Care team. The role involves providing specialized support, managing chronic disease medication, and engaging with patients both face-to-face and remotely. Candidates should be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council and preferably have prior General Practice experience. This permanent position offers 37.5 hours per week and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Continuous professional development opportunities

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Hold or be working towards a prescribing qualification.
• Experience of working in General Practice is essential.
• Demonstrates self-development through continuous professional development.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist pharmaceutical support to the practice.
• Conduct clinical medication reviews for patients.
• Manage repeat prescription requests and monitor medicine optimisation.

Skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Proficient in SystmOne

Ability to work under pressure

Education

Postgraduate Diploma

Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council

Tools

SystmOne

AccuRx

Job description

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Clinical Pharmacist to join our friendly and committed Primary Care team at Lister Medical Centre.

The post holder will work within their clinical competencies to provide specialist pharmaceutical support to the practice including working with members of the wider healthcare team to improve care and support safe and effective prescribing.

The successful candidate will need to be proactively involved in quality improvement and audit as well as managing some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework.

The role will have a patient facing element - either face to face or telephone - including chronic disease management, repeat prescription management and structured medication reviews. This will also include the management and review of patients with polypharmacy.

Main duties of the job

• To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals or intermediate care and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post-discharge and to reduce risk of readmission.

To maintain full and complete records of all patient contacts using appropriate clinical templates and coding.

Implement changes to medicines inline with MHRA alerts, product withdrawal or shortage and other local or national guidance.

Clinical medication reviews for patients with single or multiple long-term conditions where medicines optimisation is required.

To monitor practice prescribing against the local health economy and make recommendations for GP's or amend within scope of practice, based on findings.

Work with care home staff to improve the safety of ordering medicines and administration if required.

Actively reporting of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised.

Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills

About us

Lister Medical Centre is based in Harlow, Essex.

We are a well-established, friendly teaching practice and our dedicated team includes 8 GPs, 4 Emergency Care Practitioners. 3 Practice Nurses,2 Nursing Associates, 2 Physician Associate, 4 HCAs and 17 admin/support staff.We have been providing a full range of GP services for over 30years and have a patient list size of over 21,000 patients.

As a teaching practice, we have Foundation Doctors and Students from Cambridge University based with us. By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities.

We are situated in a purpose-built health centre close to local amenities.

Job responsibilities

Lister Medical Centre

Job Description

RESPONSIBLE TO: Partners and Senior Management Team

HOURS OF WORK: 37.5 hours per week

RENUMERATION: Depends on experience

CONTRACT LENGTH: Permanent

LOCATION: Lister Medical Centre, Abercrombie Way, Harlow, Essex CM18 6YJ

Job Summary:

The post holder will work within their clinical competencies to provide specialist pharmaceutical support to the practice including working with members of the wider healthcare team to improve care and support safe and effective prescribing.

The role will have a patient facing element either face to face or telephone - including chronic disease management, repeat prescription management and structured medication reviews. This will also include the management and review of patients with polypharmacy.

The post holder will need to be proactively involved in quality improvement and audit as well as managing some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework.

The post holder will be supported to help develop the role and work to improve the care and outcomes for the patients across the practice.

To play a pivotal role in the delivery of high-quality primary health care within the practice.

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

Clinical medication reviews for patients with single or multiple long term conditions where medicines optimisation is required

To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals or intermediate care and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post-discharge and to reduce risk of readmission.

To be involved in multidisciplinary clinical meetings where appropriate

To manage repeat prescription requests, resolving queries where possible within scope of practice. To ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.

Implement changes to medicines in line with MHRA alerts, product withdrawal or shortage and other local or national guidance

To maintain full and complete records of all patient contacts using appropriate clinical templates and coding

To undertake a proactive role in audit and quality improvement implementing recommendations where appropriate.

Provide independent information to patients with regard to medicines and prescribing changes, initiating further support from other healthcare professionals where appropriate

Participate in review and setting of policies relating to medicines management and prescribing and help ensure the practice prescribe in accordance with local guidelines and formulary

To identify areas of clinical risk at network level and make recommendations to support the introduction of new working practices that will optimise the quality of prescribing and make more efficient use of network resources.

To monitor practice prescribing against the local health economy and make recommendations for GPs or amend within scope of practice, based on findings.

To maintain own clinical and professional competence and be responsible for own continuous professional development

To ensure full compliance with Care Quality Commission standards for safe and effective care

Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates

Responsible for reviewing and managing acute medication requests

To be involved in and contribute to the safety of drug monitoring processes to ensure appropriate drug monitoring

Work with care home staff to improve the safety of ordering medicines and administration if required.

Duties will vary according to the demands on the practice as agreed with the GP Partners

Health & Safety

The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety Policy, the practice Health & Safety Manual, and the practice Infection Control policy and published procedures. This will include:

Using personal security systems within the workplace according to Practice guidelines

• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills

Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards

• Actively reporting of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
• Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, assisting in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness consistent with the scope of the job holders role

Production of Performance and Quality Information

• To ensure that documentation (electronic and paper-based) exists to support performance standards across the full range of performance-based activity QOF, Enhanced Services etc.

Data Quality

To work within the clinical computer system to improve data quality, using the expertise of other data staff where appropriate.

Equality and Diversity

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

• Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies, and current legislation.
• Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.
• Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional Development

Training requirements will be monitored by yearly appraisal. Personal development will be encouraged and supported by the Practice. It is the individuals responsibility to remain up to date with recent developments. The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the Practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development.
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning, and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others.

Quality

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the Practice, and will:

• Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision.
• Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance.
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs.
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

Communication:

The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will:

• Communicate effectively with other team members.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers.
• Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.
• Most instruction and communication of activity will be via the Management Team
• External communication will be with patients, Primary Care Trusts and other NHS bodies, and other GP practices and service providers.

Contribution to the Implementation of Services

The post-holder will:

• Apply Practice policies, standards and guidance.

Confidentiality

• In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.
• In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
• Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance
• with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• - Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
• - Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• - Hold or be working towards a Postgraduate Diploma
• - Hold or be working towards a prescribing qualification (training will be provided if not already underway)

Experience

• - Experience of working in General Practice

Behavioural competencies and Skills

• - Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• - Demonstrates the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)
• - Proficient in SystmOne, Ardens Manager and AccuRx
• - Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
• - Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to others when appropriate
• - Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
• - Work effectively independently and as a team member
• - Demonstrates self-development through continuous professional development activity
• - Is able to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct
• 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.