Clinical Pharmacist

National Health Service; Honiton; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Honiton Surgery in Honiton, Devon, is recruiting a Pharmacist to join the practice team. You will work with GPs to optimise medicines for long-term conditions, conduct prescribing reviews and support the PCN with pharmacotherapy initiatives.

The role offers both full-time and flexible (0.6 WTE) working patterns and involves collaboration with the PCN pharmacists and technicians to improve patient care and safety.

Qualifications

• Must be a registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Experience in general practice medicine optimisation and prescribing would be advantageous.
• Demonstrates excellent communication and teamwork abilities.

Responsibilities

• Carry out medicine optimisation and review plans for Long Term Conditions.
• Perform structured medication reviews for priority patients via face-to-face and phone appointments.
• Liaise with secondary care and community services to ensure safe medicines use.

Skills

Medicine optimisation

Structured medication reviews

Prescribing knowledge

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Clinical governance

Education

Pharmacist registered with GPhC

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

Job summary

Honiton Surgery is looking for an experienced Pharmacist to join our practice team. Based at Honiton Surgery you will work with our GPs and other clinicians to support Long Term Conditions, prescribing and review medication. Whilst working directly for the surgery, you will also work alongside our existing practice Pharmacist and be supported by our PCN team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. Whilst we are advertising for 1 WTE, applications from candidates interested in a part-time role of no less than 0.6 WTE are welcome.

About us

We are a large, supportive and friendly well-established GP practice of 18,000 patients and are located in the market town of Honiton in East Devon. We have a diverse clinical team that includes 6 GP partners, 13 salaried GPs, advanced nurse practitioners, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, FCP physiotherapists and occupational therapists. We also have a health and well-being coach team that works closely with our local CMHT. We are the lead practice in our PCN working with two other local practices and have a good rating with CQC. In addition, we are a training practice currently training GP registrars, AHPs, nurses and nurse practitioners. We are an RCGP Research Ready practice with many active active research studies. The Partners and Practice Manager are innovative and forward thinking, proactive in quality improvement work for developing our service, supporting excellent patient care and staff wellbeing. Successful applicants could be supported to become involved in delivery of research and quality improvement projects.

Details

• Pay scheme: OtherSalary Depending on experience and on ARRs Roles (Band 7 Equivalent)
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
• Reference number: A1758-26-0015
• Job locations: Marlpits Lane, Honiton, Devon, EX14 2NY, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

• a. See patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required e.g. diabetes, hypertension, heart failure, or where patients are prescribed large numbers of medicines or combinations with identifiable risks. Review the ongoing medicine plan for these patients, ensuring they get the best use of their medicines and make appropriate recommendations to clinicians for medicine improvement
• b. Carry out structured medication reviews for patients identified as priority by the practice or through the PCN DES. This will be provided by face to face and phone appointments and may also involve visiting people in their own homes or in care homes. Although the candidate does not need to be a non-medical prescriber at time of application, they must be willing to work towards this goal and will be supported to achieve this following completion of the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacist Programme.
• c. Carry out medicines reconciliations for patients across care boundaries to ensure that our patients get the right medicines in a timely manner with the correct drug monitoring. This will involve liaising with colleagues in secondary care and possibly accessing further support through the community pharmacy discharge medicines scheme or referral to the community services pharmacy team
• d. Answer prescription and medication queries from patients and staff across the health network.
• e. Present and lead improvement projects on PCN wide policies and procedures.
• f. Contribute to Practice and PCN meetings, GP educational meetings and any other meetings as and when required.
• g. Support the GP prescribing leads with implementing change, maintaining standards and achieving prescribing targets e.g. those set through the Devon Medicines Optimisation Scheme and Impact and Investment Fund.
• h. Liaise with community pharmacy colleagues to align cross sector initiatives e.g. GPCPCS, eRD.
• i. Complete and communicate audits to ensure a culture of continual quality improvement.
• j. Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
• k. Support the PCN pharmacy technicians working within Honiton Surgery.
• l. Document all work in a thorough and timely way in the practice patient management system - SystmOne.
• m. Advise and support with queries regarding medication storage and transportation including vaccines.
• n. Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both.
• o. Support the delivery of QOF, incentive schemes, QIPP and other quality or cost effectiveness initiatives.
• p. Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
• q. Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
• r. To support public health, including vaccination campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.

Person specification

• Qualifications Essential: Must be a registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Qualifications Essential: Will undertake or can demonstrate exemption from CPPE's Primary Care Pharmacy education Programme.
• Qualifications Essential: Safeguarding and Other Mandatory Training.
• Desirable: Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
• Desirable: Membership of the Primary Care Pharmacy Association.
• Experience Essential: Experience and awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-terms conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
• Desirable: Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams and community groups.
• Desirable: Experience of reviewing patients with Long Term Conditions, e.g. Diabetes, Hypertension etc.
• Skills and Knowledge Essential: In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
• Skills and Knowledge Essential: Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
• Skills and Knowledge Essential: Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Skills and Knowledge Essential: Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients).
• Skills and Knowledge Essential: Recognise priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern, knowing when to escal…
• Skills and Knowledge Essential: Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social, economic and environmental factors and their impact on communities.
• Skills and Knowledge Essential: Be able to work well independently and as a team member.
• Skills and Knowledge Essential: An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
• Skills and Knowledge Essential: Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports.
• Skills and Knowledge Essential: Able to plan, manage, monitor and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.

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.

UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name: Honiton Surgery

Address: Marlpits Lane, Honiton, Devon, EX14 2NY, United Kingdom