Clinical Pharmacist

Birchwood Surgery; Letchworth; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Birchwood and Sollershott Surgery is seeking an experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our GP practice. You will deliver safe, evidence-based prescribing, support medicines optimisation, and lead on clinical governance within a busy, multidisciplinary team.

The role offers a varied workload including direct patient care, clinical leadership, and medicines management activities across two sites.

Qualifications

• General practice and primary care prescribing understanding
• Experience in improving prescribing quality and medicines optimisation
• Autonomy in managing pharmacy services in primary care
• Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
• Clinical governance knowledge and ability to use SystmOne
• Minor ailments certification and MUR/repeat dispensing certification

Responsibilities

• Care management of patients with chronic diseases and polypharmacy
• Lead medicines optimisation and contribute to quality improvement
• Undertake structured medication reviews and support adherence
• Lead on shared care protocols with clinicians and pharmacists
• Be the point of contact for medicine-related matters
• Maintain accurate clinical records within legislation
• Implement and embed repeat prescribing systems
• Improve prescribing quality through audits and education

Job description

We are seeking an experienced, motivated, andpatient-centered Clinical Pharmacist to join our growing and ambitious GPPractice. This is an excellent opportunity to become part of a supportivemultidisciplinary team that is committed to deliveringoutstanding care to its patient population.

You will play a key rolein the delivery of safe, effective and evidence-based prescribing, supportingboth patients and clinicians. You will contribute to medicines optimisation, management of long-termconditions and the continuous improvement of prescribing quality across thepractice.

You will be proactive, collaborative, and committed to developing pharmacy services withinprimary care. The role offers a varied workload with a balance of directpatient care, clinical leadership, and practice-based medicines managementactivities.

Main duties of the job

Your responsibilities will include:

• care management of patients with chronic diseases, undertaking clinicalmedication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, with multipleco-morbidities and people withlearning disabilities or autism
• providespecialist expertise in the use of medicines, and provide leadership onperson-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement, whilstcontributing to the QOF and enhanced services
• undertakestructured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care
• takea central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, liaison withspecialist pharmacists, communitypharmacists, and anticoagulation
• actas the point of contact for all medicine related matters
• ensure timely changes are made to medicationfrom clinical correspondence
• managea caseload of complex patients and provideadvice for the GP management of more complex patients or areas such asaddictive behaviours, severe mental illness or end of life care
• alongsideour PCN team, manage a therapeutic drug monitoring system and the recall ofpatients taking high risk drugs
• maintainaccurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
• implementand embed a robust repeat prescribing system
• improvethe quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit andeducation

About us

• The Birchwood and Sollershott Surgery is one practice based over two sites. We are an accredited education practice, which supports ST2/ST3s.
• With a patient list of approx 18,500 and growing, we are a busy and lively practice.
• We operate a Total Triage model of working, with a clinical triage team supporting the triage for patient enquiries.
• Our GPs have 15-minutes per patient appointment, with admin and catch up slots during the day.
• Our multi-disciplinary clinical team is made up of GPs, Paramedic, ANPs, prescribing nurses, Practice Nurses and Health Care Assistants.
• We operate in a supportive PCN area, with support from Clinical Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, First Contact Physio, Midwifery, Phlebotomy, Mental Health Nurse, Social Prescribers and Enhanced Access Service.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached PDF Job Description for full details and more about this Clinical Pharmacist role.

Person Specification

Experience

• An appreciation of the nature of general practice and the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
• Minimum of two years working as a pharmacist demonstrated within a practice portfolio
• An appreciation of the new NHS landscape, including the relationships between individual practices, PCNs and the commissioners
• Experience in managing pharmacy services in primary care
• In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
• Experience of working autonomously

Clinical Knowledge

• Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information effectively with people at all levels by telephone, email and face to face
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing, negotiation and organisational skills with the ability to constructively challenge the views and practices of managers and clinicians
• Understanding of safeguarding adults and children
• Ability to promote best practice regarding all pharmaceutical matters
• Ability to work within own scope of practice and understand when to refer to GPs
• Ability to record accurate clinical notes
• Plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
• Broad knowledge of clinical governance
• Ability to use SystmOne

Qualifications

• Hold or be working towards a GPhC independent prescribing qualification.
• GPC registered Pharmacist.
• To be enrolled in, or have qualified from, an approved 18-month training pathway or equivalent that equips you to be able to practice and prescribe safely and effectively in a primary care setting (for example, the CPPE clinical pharmacist training pathways)
• Proof of relevant professional and educational qualifications, coupled with details of any training
• Working towards faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Minor ailments certification
• MUR and repeat dispensing certification

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.

£45,000 to £55,000 a yearSalary range is dependent on experience and qualifications