Clinical Pharmacist

North Thames Genomics Laboratory Hub; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is looking for a dynamic Clinical Pharmacist to enhance patient care in a supportive environment. This role involves conducting clinical medication reviews, leading medicines optimisation initiatives, and providing guidance to both patients and healthcare staff. You'll collaborate with a dedicated team, ensuring the highest standards of care and contributing to community health through public health initiatives. If you're passionate about improving healthcare outcomes and have the necessary qualifications, this is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference in patient lives.

Qualifications

• Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Minimum of 2 years experience as a pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Undertake comprehensive medication reviews and manage patients with complex needs.
• Provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and support junior pharmacists.
• Contribute to public health campaigns and seasonal vaccination programmes.

Skills

Independent Prescribing

Clinical Medication Review

Medicines Optimisation

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Interpersonal Skills

Education

Undergraduate Degree in Pharmacy

Postgraduate Diploma or Equivalent

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

Eastwood Primary Care Centre is seeking an enthusiastic, highly-motivated and experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our friendly practice team and contribute to improving healthcare to our local community, with which we have strong links. The post-holder would be working within a practice that has a CQC outstanding rating, and we pride ourselves on supporting our patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will either hold the independent prescribing qualification enabling them to work autonomously in practicing and prescribing safely and effectively within the primary care setting, or be willing to undertake the independent prescribing qualification as experience within primary care increases.

The post-holder will undertake clinics for clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients, including those with complex polypharmacy and long-term conditions. They will also be required to undertake medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and will contribute to and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework.

The post-holder will provide support to general practice staff and our specialised prescriptions team with regards to medication queries.

The post-holder will be required to provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and will contribute to training and education of junior pharmacists within the team.

The post-holder will be required to contribute to the seasonal vaccination programmes, of which the practice has served the community extremely well with in-house clinics and for our housebound patients.

About us

EPCC is a well-established training practice and the post-holder would be working alongside a team of practice-based and PCN pharmacists, PCN pharmacy technicians and student pharmacists, along with being an integral part of the wider general practice team.

Eastwood Primary Care Centre, located on the border of Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire, sits at the heart of the community and we contribute to the wider health of Nottinghamshire and work closely with Primary Integrated Care Services, Nottingham West PCN and The University of Nottingham.

Our practice offers a professional and caring service to approximately 18,500 patients, utilising the skills and enthusiasm of our practice and wider team.

Job responsibilities

PRIMARY DUTIES AND AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:

1. Undertake a comprehensive medication review of patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required. Ensure ongoing follow-up/monitoring to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e., medicines optimisation).
2. Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and make appropriate clinical interventions either in clinic or in a domiciliary setting where appropriate.
3. Provide patient-facing or telephone clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.
4. Respond to medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g., community pharmacy) and patients.
5. Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions/readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups.
6. To reconcile medicines following transfer of care from hospitals or intermediate care. To undertake a post-transfer consultation with patients to ensure continuity of care.
7. Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate Healthcare Professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time (e.g., pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long-term condition reviews, etc.).
8. Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions that have reached the review date.
9. Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches.
10. Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g., advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).
11. Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.
12. Undertake simple audits of prescribing in areas highlighted by the practice team and feedback the results and implement changes.
13. Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
14. Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
15. Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
16. Support public health campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.

COLLABORATIVE WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:

The post holder will:

1. Recognise the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care.
2. Demonstrate use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g., ICB).
3. Demonstrate ability to work as a member of a team.
4. Recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary.
5. Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality.
6. Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality.
7. Explore the potential for collaborative working and take opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships.
8. Demonstrate ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams.
9. Liaise with ICB/PCN colleagues on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.
10. Liaise with ICB pharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management/Optimisation to benefit from peer support.
11. Liaise with other GP Practices and staff as needed for the collective benefit of patients.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required:

Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.

Minimum of 2 years experience as a pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio.

Has experience and an awareness of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.

Will hold an independent prescribing qualification.

Recognises priorities when problem-solving and identifies deviations from normal patterns and is able to deal with or refer when appropriate.

Able to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct.

Involves patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidelines.

Leadership:

Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace.

Demonstrate understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision.

Engage with Patient Participation Groups (PPGs) and involves PPGs in development of the role and practices.

Demonstrate ability to improve quality within limitations of service.

Review yearly progress and develops clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others.

Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve goals.

Promote diversity and equality in people management techniques and leads by example.

Management:

Demonstrate understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service.

Demonstrate understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation.

Demonstrate understanding of, and conform to, relevant standards of practice.

Demonstrate ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol.

Follow professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management.

Demonstrate ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team.

Education, Training and Development:

Understand and demonstrate the characteristics of a role model to members in the team and/or service.

Demonstrate understanding of the mentorship process.

Demonstrate ability to conduct teaching and assessment effectively according to a learning plan with supervision from more experienced colleagues.

Demonstrate self-development through continuous professional development activity; working alongside Senior Clinical Pharmacist to identify areas to develop.

Participate in the delivery of formal education programmes.

Demonstrate an understanding of current educational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keeps up to date with relevant clinical practice.

Ensure appropriate clinical supervision is in place to support development.

Enrol into review and appraisal systems within the practice.

Research and Evaluation:

The post holder will:

Demonstrate ability to critically evaluate and review literature.

Demonstrate ability to identify where there is a gap in the evidence base to support practice.

Demonstrate ability to generate evidence suitable for presentations at practice and local level.

Demonstrate ability to apply research evidence base into working place.

Demonstrate understanding of principles of research governance.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Independent prescriber.
• Minimum 2 years post-qualification experience.
• Specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience.

Experience

• Is able to plan, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long-term conditions.
• An appreciation of the nature of general practice.
• 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).
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Produce timely and informative reports.
• Demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
• 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.
• Recognise priorities when problem solving and identify deviations from the normal pattern, and able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
• Have excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communications.
• Work effectively independently and as a team member.
• Be self-motivated and adaptable.
• Full driving licence.
• Level 3 safeguarding (adult and children).
• Have an in-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
• Previous experience of SystmOne.

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.