Clinical Pharmacist

NHS; Melton Mowbray; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading medical practice in Melton Mowbray is seeking an experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join their dedicated team. The role includes conducting medication reviews, supporting acute prescriptions, managing chronic disease care, and providing expertise in clinical medicines. Applicants should be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council and possess a postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy. Opportunities for professional development are available.

Benefits

Regular mentoring opportunities

Access to extensive education and training

Qualifications

• Experience of working independently and as part of a team.
• Knowledge of NHS/Primary Care services.

Responsibilities

• Conduct medication reviews and support patients with complex polypharmacy.
• Provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation.

Skills

Effective communication

High attention to detail

Time management

Interpersonal skills

Education

Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council

Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy

Tools

Microsoft Office

GP clinical systems (EMIS, SystmOne)

Job description

Latham House Medical Practiceis looking for an experienced Clinical Pharmacist to complement the existingteam of Pharmacists and Technicians.

Working alongside our current PharmacyTeam the post-holder will quickly become an integral member of the Practice andenjoy a diverse range of duties and responsibilities including:

Resolving medicinesrelated queries with both healthcare professionals and patients.

Further develop thePractices strong working relationships with care homes and community nursingsupporting the management of patients.

Conductingmedicines/polypharmacy reviews either in a face-to-face clinical setting or by telephone.

Developing their clinicalskills in a chosen area of expertise.

Contributing to andsupporting the Audits and Quality Improvement Programme to ensure prescribingis aligned to the local formulary.

Ensuring the achievementof targets and budgets.

Liaising with Pharmacistsworking within the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICB

As a self-motivated andenthusiastic Clinical Pharmacist, the successful candidate will enjoy:

• Regularopportunities to discuss matters with a mentor.
• Face-to-face reviews with healthcare professionals.
• Accessto an extensive programme of Practice based education, learning and training opportunities.
• Candidateswill either be non-medical prescriber or will work towards this.

Main duties of the job

Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facingrole.

Help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescriptionrequests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems forsafer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressingboth public and social care needs of patient in the GP practice (s).

Take responsibility for areas of chronic disease managementwithin the Practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactivelymanage patients with complex polypharmacy.

Provide primary support to general practice staff with regardsto prescription and medication queries.

Provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation, qualityimprovement, maintaining expenditure within set budgetary limits and managesome aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.

Ensure that the practice integrates with community andhospital pharmacists to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes,ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload.

Therole is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficienciesso requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within generalpractice.

Engage, support and provide a training environment for the Team.

About us

Latham House Medical Practice is one of the UKs largest doctors surgeries, based in the Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.We are conveniently situated within 30 50 minutes of Nottingham, Leicester and Peterborough; Melton Mowbray is a large market town in the fortunate position of being surrounded by picturesque villages, beautiful countryside, and local activities.The post will give the opportunity for professional development through a working plan that suits you, working within a dedicated team and building close links with the community and other neighbouring Practices.

Job responsibilities

TelephoneAcute Medicines Support

Provide a telephone help line for patientswith questions, queries and concerns about their medicines and acutemedication requests.

To reconcilemedicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into carehomes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and workingwith patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive themedicines they need post discharge.

Set up andmanage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to highrisk groups ofpatients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).

Management Of Medicines Reconciliationof Clinic Letters

PatientFacing Long-Term Conditions Clinics

See patients face to face, or work withpatients on the telephone, or by written correspondence (where appropriatewith single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation isrequired (e.g. COPD, asthma).

Review the on-going need for each medicine, areview of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with theirmedicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e.medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to GPs for medicineimprovement.

PatientFacing Clinical Medication Review

Undertake clinical medication reviews withpatients and produce recommendations for Nurses and/or GP on prescribing andmonitoring.

PatientFacing Care Home Medication Reviews

Undertake clinical medication reviews withpatients and produce recommendations for the Nurses or GPs on prescribing andmonitoring.

Work with care home staff to improve safetyof medicines ordering and administration.

PatientFacing Domiciliary Clinical Medication Review

Undertake clinical medication reviews withpatients and produce recommendations for the, Nurses and GPs on prescribingand monitoring.

Attend and refer patients tomultidisciplinary case conferences.

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

MedicineInformation To Practice Staff And Patients

Answers relevant medicine -related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, otherhealthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries aboutmedicines.

Suggesting and recommending solutions.

Providing follow up for patients to monitorthe effect of any changes.

UnplannedHospital Admissions

Review the useof medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions andreadmissions through audit and individual patient reviews.

Put in placechanges to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to highrisk patient groups.

Signposting

Ensure thatpatients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for theappropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time e.g. pathologyresults, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviewsetc.

RepeatPrescribing

Manage therepeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests forrepeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates andflagging up those needing a review.

Ensure patientshave appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.

RiskStratification

Identificationof cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines throughpre-prepared practice computer searches.

This mightinclude risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both.

ServiceDevelopment

Contributepharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new servicesthat have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patientinformation leaflets).

InformationManagement

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

MedicinesQuality Improvement

Undertakeclinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback theresults and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.

Implementchanges to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal andother local and national guidance.

ImplementationOf Local And National Guidelines And Formulary Recommendations

Monitorpractice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list and makerecommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospitaldoctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs).

Assistpractices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted onthe practices computer system.

Auditingpractices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance.

Providenewsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.

EducationAnd Training

Provideeducation and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics andmedicines optimisation.

CareQuality Commission

Work with thegeneral practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards.

PublicHealth

To supportpublic health campaigns.

To providespecialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the generalpublic.

CollaborativeWorking Relationships

Recognises theroles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patientcare.

Demonstratesuse of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevantstakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and otherprofessionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g. ICBs)

Is able torecognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s)when necessary

Actively worktoward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both withinand outside the practice and locality

Foster andmaintain strong links with all services across locality

Explores thepotential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate andsustain such relationships

Demonstratesability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacyteams

Liaises with ICBcolleagues including ICB Pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensureconsistency of patient care and benefit

Liaises with ICBpharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management/ Optimisation to benefit frompeer support

Liaises withother stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients includingbut not limited to:

oGP, nurses andother practice staff

oOtherhealthcare professionals including ICB pharmacists, pharmacy technicians,optometrists, dentists, health and social care teams and dieticians etc.

oCommunitynurses and other allied health professionals

oCommunity andhospital pharmacy teams

oHospital staffwith responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimisation

oPatientReference Group

Confidentiality

Inthe course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us togather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters.They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respecttheir privacy and act appropriately. In the performance of the dutiesoutlined in this job description, the post-holder will have access toconfidential information relating to the Practice as a business organisation.All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictlyconfidential. Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, otherhealthcare workers or the business of the Practice may only be divulged toauthorised persons in accordance with the Practice Policies and Proceduresrelating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitivedata.

Person Specification

Skills

• Able to establish, maintain and develop effective communications across the Practice and with external organisations
• High level literacy and numeracy skills with a passion for detail and accuracy
• Discretion in the handling of sensitive and confidential information
• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to build professional and personal credibility to gain the support of colleagues and external organisations
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; able to engage effectively with a wide ranges of audiences
• Excellent time management skills, capable of prioritising and managing competing demands and workloads

Experience

• Evidence of capacity to work successfully autonomous and as part of a team
• Experience of working with IT programs and software such as Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and the internet
• Experience of working with GP clinical systems such EMIS, SystmOne, Electronic Prescription Service
• Evidence of having achieved personal and departmental objectives within the workplace
• Experience of proactively and effectively managing phone calls/lists and requests from patients
• Experience of handling and dealing with specimens in accordance with Infection Prevention Control policies and procedures

Knowledge

• Understanding of the NHS/ Primary Care services
• Knowledge of confidentiality in the workplace/ information governance
• A good level of knowledge and understanding of the primary care sector and the healthcare sector
• Extensive knowledge of IT programs and software such as Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook and the internet
• Extensive knowledge of working with GP clinical systems such EMIS, SystemOne, Electronic Prescription Service
• A good level of knowledge and understanding of medical terminology

Additional Requirements

• Commitment to continuing professional development of self and others
• Able to maintain the consistent delivery of high quality services
• Satisfactory completion of an enhanced check through the Vetting and Barring Service (this will be taken up if offered the post)
• Legal Right to work in the UK
• Hep B/MMR - Vaccinated or willing to be vaccinated
• A commitment to anti-discriminatory practices in employment, training and service delivery
• An understanding of Health and Safety responsibilities
• Flexibility in working hours

Qualifications

• Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Post graduate masters or diploma in clinical pharmacy / management or equivalent (or working towards) or equivalent

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.