Clinical Pharmacist

Uppingham Surgery; Oakham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK seeks an experienced Clinical Pharmacist to enhance patient care through leadership, medication management, and patient consultations. The role requires a Clinical Pharmacy Degree and experience, ideally in primary care. Expect competitive salary and benefits including NHS pension access. Join a supportive multidisciplinary team and contribute to high-quality patient-centered care.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Access to NHS pension scheme

Purpose-built modern facilities

Supportive working environment

Qualifications

• Primary care experience is essential.
• Experience in managing long-term conditions is required.
• Knowledge of SystmOne is advantageous, but training is provided.

Responsibilities

• Provide pro-active leadership on medicines and prescribing.
• Deliver patient-facing services to improve health outcomes.
• Perform clinical medication reviews and develop treatment plans.
• Support the primary care team with medication management.

Skills

Outstanding verbal and written communication skills

Strong patient care skills

IT skills including Microsoft Office

Positive and proactive approach to work

Education

Clinical Pharmacy Degree

Job description

Uppingham Surgery is looking to recruit aClinical Pharmacist with excellent clinical skills and warmth, with acommitment to positively contribute to our provision of high-quality patientcentred care.

Hours: up to 37 hours per week Monday to Friday. The position offers a verycompetitive salary, generous annual and study leave, with access to the NHS pension scheme.

Main duties of the job

What the role involves:

• Provide pro‑active leadership on medicines and prescribing systems to the practice multidisciplinary team, patients and their carers
• Deliver patient facing services and clinics which improve patient outcomes, reflect the needs of the practice population and shift workload from other disciplines
• Improve patient and carer understanding of, confidence in, and compliance with their medicines
• Provide pharmaceutical consultations and home vis­its to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of themulti­disciplinary team
• Deliver high quality medication reviews and develop bespoke medicines treatment plans for patients (particularly theelderly, complex patients and those at high risk of admission)
• Improve the safety and quality of prescribing following hospital admissions and attendance
• Improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education to improve performance against NICE standards, prescribing guidance and other clinical standards
• Develop yourself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training and service activities
• Provide a clear and active link with community pharmacists and other stakeholders in the medicines supply chain to improve patient experience and manage issues
• Deliver training, mentoring and guidance to other clinicians and staff on medicines issues

About us

Uppingham Surgery is a diverse multidisciplinary team looking after 12,800 patients in the beautiful market town of Uppingham, situated just off the A47.

Benefits of working with Uppingham Surgery:

• Purpose built modern facilities
• A highly supportive working environment focusing on your professional and personal wellbeing
• Well‑established and passionate management and Partnership setup and active member of Rutland Health PCN
• Salary dependent upon experience
• Auto‑enrolment into the NHS pension scheme
• Be part of our experienced and coherent team everyone has their part to play

Job responsibilities

The post holder is a Clinical Pharmacist who acts within their professional boundaries, working alongside a team of pharmacists in general practice within the wider PCN.

They will improve patients health outcomes and the efficiency of the primary care team by providing direct, accessible and timely medicines and expertise including face to face contact with patients.

The post holder will be an integral part of the general practice team, as well as part of a wider pharmacist network and multi-disciplinary team. This includes being a conduit of patient medicines information into and out of hospitals. They will work to optimise medication issues to improve patient care and safety, and support clinical staff in the management of patients.

A part of their employment, the post holder will achieve qualifications from an accredited training pathway, including independent prescribing, equipping the Clinical Pharmacist to be able to practise and prescribe safely and effectively in a primary care setting.

The Clinical Pharmacist in a general practice organisation has the following key responsibilities in relation to delivering health services.

The post may be required to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels.

They work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.

They are a prescriber, or completing training to become a prescriber, and work with and alongside the general practice team.

They are responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP Stop Over Medication Programme).

They provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the organisation and to help in tackling inequalities.

They provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services.

Through structured medication reviews, they support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care.

They have a leadership role in supporting further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload.

They develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across the wider health and social care system.

They take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties), liaison with community pharmacists, and anticoagulation.

They be part of a professional clinical network and have access to appropriate clinical supervision. Appropriate clinical supervision means:

Each clinical pharmacist must receive a minimum of one supervision session per month by a senior clinical pharmacist.

The senior clinical pharmacist must receive a minimum of one supervision session every three months by a GP clinical supervisor.

Each clinical pharmacist will have access to an assigned GP clinical supervisor for support and development.

The ratio of one senior clinical pharmacist to no more than five junior clinical pharmacists, with appropriate peer support and supervision in place.

They act as the point of contact for all medicine related matters, establishing positive working relationships.

They consult patients within defined levels of competence and independently prescribe acute and repeat medication.

They receive referrals and directed patients from triage services and other clinicians.

They receive and resolve medicine queries from patients and other staff.

They provide medication review services for patients in the practice and during domiciliary visits to the local nursing home.

They manage a caseload of complex patients.

They manage a therapeutic drug monitoring system and the recall of patients taking high risk drugs, i.e., anticoagulants, anticonvulsants and DMARDs, etc.

They deliver long term condition clinics and home visits, particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes, and prescribe accordingly.

They provide pharmaceutical consultations to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team.

They review medications for newly registered patientsp>

They improve patient and carer understanding of confidence in and compliance with their medication.

They maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation.

They encourage cost-effective prescribing throughout the organisation.

They implement and embed a robust repeat prescribing system.

They provide advice and answer medication related queries from patients and staff.

They organise and oversee the organisation’s medicines optimisation systems, including the repeat prescribing and medication review systems.

• To improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education, to improve performance against NICE standards and clinical and prescribing guidance.
• To develop yourself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training and service redesign activities.
• To ensure appropriate supervision of safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs. To apply infection‑control measures within the practice according to local and national guidelines.
• To provide subject matter expertise on medication monitoring, implementing and embedding a system.
• To support clinicians with the management of patients suffering from drug and alcohol dependencies.
• To actively signpost patients to the correct healthcare professional.
• To manage a caseload of complex patients and potential care institutions and to provide advice for the GP management of more complex patients or areas such as addictive behaviours, severe mental illness or end of life care.
• To review the latest guidance, ensuring the organisation conforms to NICE, CQC etc.
• To provide targeted support and proactive reviews for vulnerable, complex patients and those at risk of admission and re‑admission to secondary care.
• To handle prescription queries and requests directly.
• To provide proactive leadership on medicines and prescribing systems to the organisation, patients and their carers.
• To support in the delivery of enhanced services and other service requirements on behalf of the organisation.
• To participate in the management of patient complaints when requested to do so, and participate in the identification of any necessary learning brought about through clinical incidents and near‑miss events.
• To undertake all mandatory training and induction programme.
• To contribute to and embrace the spectrum of clinical governance.
• To attend a formal appraisal with your manager at least every 12 months. Once a performance/training objective has been set, progress will be reviewed on a regular basis so that new objectives can be agreed.
• To contribute to public health campaigns (e.g., COVID‑19 or flu clinics) through advice or direct care.
• To maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area at all times.

Experience

• Primary Care experience
• Long term condition management
• IT skills including Microsoft Office (Knowledge of SystmOne would be advantageous however full training is provided)
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Strong patient care skills with a compassionate approach
• Positive and proactive approach to work, with the ability to work under pressure
• Experience of working in a team and using your own initiative
• Ability to abide by strict confidentiality and information governance compliance and the responsibility this brings

Qualifications

• Clinical Pharmacy Degree

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.