Clinical Pharmacist

North Thames Genomics Laboratory Hub; Ryde; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare facility in England seeks a motivated and experienced Clinical Pharmacist to enhance patient care within their General Practice team. This pivotal role involves managing chronic diseases, optimising medications, and improving patient outcomes while collaborating closely with a multidisciplinary team. The ideal candidate will hold a master's degree in Pharmacy and possess independent prescribing qualifications. Full-time commitment preferred, with part-time hours considered for the right candidate. Join a dedicated team, enhancing community health through effective pharmaceutical care.

Qualifications

• Clinical experience in primary care is essential.
• Specialist knowledge of clinical guidelines required.
• Experience with audit processes preferred.

Responsibilities

• Clinical assessment and treatment of patients in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Managing chronic disease care and conducting clinical medication reviews.
• Providing leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement.

Skills

Compiling protocols and clinical guidelines

Audit

Clinical medication reviews

Education

Registered Pharmacist with GPhC

Masters in Pharmacy degree

Independent prescribing

Membership Primary Care Pharmacy Association (PCPA)

Completion of the Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway (PCPEP)

Specialist knowledge through a postgraduate diploma or equivalent

Job description

The Esplanade Surgery are seeking a motivated and experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our General Practice team. Whilst we are looking to appoint a Clinical Pharmacist on a full time basis, we would consider part-time hours for the right candidate.

The Clinical Pharmacist will play a pivotal role in supporting the management of patients with chronic diseases, optimising medicines, improving patient outcomes, and contributing to the overall health and well-being of the community. Please note this is not a remote role.

Main duties of the job

The role of the clinical pharmacist in primary care is changing rapidly. The provision of a prescription is the single most common outcome from a consultation. Medicine monitoring and medicines safety has risen exponentially over recent years and combined with the complexity of those living with multiple long term conditions and frailty means clinical pharmacy is a core part of general practice.

Primary care needs to be ambitious to pro-actively help patients stay safe, well and out of hospital as well as ensuring that general practice remains resilient in their ability to provide the increasing range of services.

About us

The Esplanade Practice has now been established for over 60 years supporting the care of our patients across Ryde and the surrounding area. We support a population of c. 9000 patients from our Surgery on the Ryde seafront. The successful candidate will join our existing multidisciplinary team of GPs, ANPs, Paramedics Nurses and HCAs. We are a training practice supporting registrars, medical students, trainee pharmacists and paramedics.

Job responsibilities

Job responsibilities

The following describes the key responsibilities that the postholder will deliver and/or work towards delivering with supported and on-going development.

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.

Take responsibility 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 and those with multiple co-morbidities.

Be a prescriber, or be willing to undertake training to become a prescriber, and work with and alongside the general practice team.

Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients to help in tackle inequality.

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 (QoF) and enhanced services

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

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.

Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across neighbouring practices and the wider health and social care system.

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.

To provide support to pharmacist colleagues in the clinical aspects of medicine reviews, clinical audit, practice research and governance

Share outcomes of prescribing, clinical, service and patient outcomes audits within our practice and across the locality in order to drive service and practice improvement.

To respond to and act on MHRA drug alerts, implementing and communicating any medication changes required as a result.

To monitor medicines and prescribing expenditure at practice level and propose efficiencies to ensure delivery within budget.

Be part of a professional clinical network and have access to appropriate clinical supervision.

Person Specification

Experience

• Compiling protocols and clinical guidelines
• Audit
• Recent primary care or applicable experience

Qualifications

• Registered Pharmacist with GPhC
• Masters in Pharmacy degree
• Independent prescribing
• Membership Primary Care Pharmacy Association (PCPA)
• Specialist knowledge through a postgraduate diploma or equivalent
• Completion of the Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway (PCPEP)

Other

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.