Clinical Pharmacist

North Thames Genomics Laboratory Hub; Oxford; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A well-established healthcare practice in Oxford seeks a Clinical Pharmacist to join their team. The role involves providing comprehensive medication management and supporting general practice staff with prescription queries. The ideal candidate will be proactive in patient care, ensuring optimal medication use while collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Comprehensive training and development

Qualifications

• Registered pharmacist with experience in primary care.
• Completion of mandatory CPPE training.
• Ability to manage complex polypharmacy.

Responsibilities

• Perform clinical medication reviews for patients with long-term conditions.
• Provide expertise in clinical medicines advice and manage medication safety.
• Integrate pharmacy services to improve patient outcomes and healthcare access.

Skills

Teamwork

Clinical medicines advice

Medication safety

Education

Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Completed the CPPE pathway

Worked in Primary Care

Job description

We are looking for a Clinical Pharmacist to join our pharmacy team of two. The ideal candidate would have a can-do attitude and lots of focus of team work.

Being a prescriber is not essential but previous experience in a GP setting would be a bonus

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will help support the repeat prescriptions system, deal with acute prescription requests, medication reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patients in the GP Practice.

The post holder will ensure that the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise the skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload.

The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role. They will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy, especially for older people, people in care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities.

About us

We are a busy practice split over two sites with 24,000 patients. We also look after 2 x care homes, multiple Oxford colleges, and an Approved Premises site - so it's always busy with a wide range of patients.

Job responsibilities

RESPONSIBILITIES

Clinical Duties

• Provide face to face, telephone or remote clinical medication reviews for patients with single or multiple long term conditions, including patients on multiple medications,
• Provide support to patients and their carers to maximise medication safety and benefits and answer medication queries
• Provide medication review to complex patients in their place of residence
• Manage a case load of patients presenting with common or self limiting conditions including minor ailments within the scope of practice
• signposting to appropriate community services including community pharmacies
• Discuss patients with long term needs at local MDT meetings and refer to the named professional in line with recommendations
• Reconcile the medications of patients whose care is transferred back to primary care in a timely and effective manner liaising with patients and other providers to ensure patients receive appropriate medication on discharge
• To maintain full and complete records of all patient contacts using appropriate clinical templates and coding.
• Provide feedback and seek advice from GPs for patients where the post holder has clinical concerns around competence to safely manage their medications
• Advise patients on effective techniques required for the use of medication delivered by devices
• When indicated take monitoring observations and record in the patient record such as blood pressure, peak flow rate and urine dip stick
• Make appropriate prescribing decisions and/or recommendations based on clinical information obtained during consultation or in the patients record
• Medicines Management and Repeat Prescribing
• Review the ongoing need for medications and make suitable recommendations to the registered GPs or amend within the scope of practice
• Manage requests to prescribe medication from specialists in line with locally agreed guidelines
• Work with the Practice to ensure that safe and effective systems for the repeat prescribing of medication are developed and maintained
• Contribute to systems to ensure the effective supply of medication to high risk patients
• Contribute to systems to ensure safe and effective management of high risk medication
• Implement changes to medicines in line with MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local or national guidance
• Support the practice with the implementation of evidence based base practice in line with local and national guidelines

Audit and Risk Stratification

• Participate in audit activities in the Primary Care Network and within the practice to optimise the use of prescribing resource
• Feedback results of clinical audit activities in areas agreed with GPs and implement recommendations and completing full audit cycle
• Make recommendations based on the outcomes of audit and shared learning activities
• Proactively identify and recall patients due for medication review ensuring all appropriate monitoring tests are performed
• Analyse, interpret and present prescribing information at practice and population level to supportive effective decision making and change in evidence based clinical practice

Other Duties

• Liaise with other pharmacists based in the community and acute settings to ensure an integrated and robust service to patients
• Adhere to relevant practice policies and procedures
• Provide training and education on therapeutic and medicines optimisation within the practice or Primary Care Network
• Work with the Practice to ensure full compliance with the Care Quality Commission for safe and effective care
• Oversight and leadership of all targets that have a prescribing component to it
• Oversight and leadership of Prescribing Quality Scheme

Personal Development and Training

The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the Practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

• participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
• taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work
• attendance or completion of all Mandatory and Statutory training requirements as indicated by the Compliance Manager

Quality

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the Practice, and will:

• Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
• Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision whilst embracing the practices ethos of recording of any errors or near misses and learning by mistakes without blame
• Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources

Health and Safety

The Pharmacist will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Health and Safety Policy

Equality and Diversity

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

• Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
• Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
• Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Confidentiality

• In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
• In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, Practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
• Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data

Person Specification

Qualifications

• - Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• - Completed the CPPE pathway
• - Worked in Primary Care

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.

Full-time,Part-time,Flexible working,Compressed hours