Clinical Pharmacist

Tone Valley Primary Care Network; Taunton; Presencial; GBP 42.000 - 62.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Tone Valley PCN in Taunton seeks a full-time Clinical Pharmacist (Independent Prescriber) to join Warwick House Medical Practice and the wider PCN pharmacy team. You will contribute to medicines management and patient-centred care across multiple sites.

Ideal candidates will be an experienced Pharmacist with Independent Prescriber status, but newly qualified applicants will be considered. The role offers development towards Advanced practice within a supportive network.

Formación

• Registered Pharmacist with GPhC and independent prescriber status.
• Experience in medicines optimisation and clinical reviews.
• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary primary care team.
• Open to newly qualified applicants.

Responsabilidades

• Conduct clinical medication reviews and make prescribing recommendations.
• Run long-term condition clinics as an independent prescriber.
• Support medicines management and reconciliation on transfer of care.
• Collaborate with community and hospital pharmacy for safer prescribing.
• Provide medicines optimisation and quality improvement support.

Conocimientos

Independent Prescriber

Medicines optimisation

Patient-centred care

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Educación

GPhC registered pharmacist

Descripción del empleo

Warwick House Medical Practice under ToneValley PCN has an opportunity for 1 full-time enthusiastic and forward thinkingClinical Pharmacist to join our established and growing teams in providingmeaningful, patient centred support in general practice.

We are looking ideally for an experiencedClinical Pharmacist Independent Prescriber keen to develop their practicetowards the Advanced level and further roles for the future. Applications fromnewly qualified Pharmacists will be considered.

You will work across 1 main siteWarwick House Medical Practice but also be part of the Tone Valley PCNPharmacist team, which works across Taunton Vale, North Curry, Lyngford Parkand Creech Medical Centre.

Warwick House has had a Pharmacistintegrated in their team for 10 years now, and they have a well establishedrole. You would be working alongside an experienced full time ClinicalPharmacist with Pharmacy technician support. Warwick House is also part of theSymphony Healthcare Services group which itself has a wide Pharmacist andPharmacy technician team with development and support. We have an establishedPharmacist progression to Advanced level. We actively engage in trainingIndependent prescribers and Foundation Pharmacists and students.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work in a both a patient-facingand non-patient-facing role, depending on the needs of the individual practice,and this will be subject to review as the role develops.The post holder willwork as part of a multi-disciplinary team supporting medicines managementwithin the practice. The post holder may be asked to take responsibility forareas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinicalmedication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.

The post holder may provide primarysupport to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medicationqueries. They will help support the repeat prescription and dispensing system, helpwith acute prescription requests, support medicines reconciliation on transferof care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinicalmedicines advice while addressing both public health and social care needsofpatients.

The post holder will provide clinical supporton medicines optimisation and quality improvement and will support and managesome aspects of the quality and outcomes framework, dispensing services qualityscheme and enhanced services.

The post holder will ensure that thepractice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skillmix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and helpmanage workload.

About us

Tone Valley PCN consists of five GP Practices: Taunton Vale Healthcare, WarwickHouse Medical Practice, Lyngford Park Surgery, Creech Medical Centre and North Curry Health centre, and together ourdedicated teams care for around 36,500 patients. We are a friendly,forward-looking PCN who values the work-life balance we are able to provideallowing us to enjoy the beautiful countryside of Somerset. We are looking for a self-starter who is able to work well as part of a team as well as on theirown initiative. The ability to work well under pressure is also an importantconsideration for any successful candidate. If you are a positive, confidentand organised individual who adopts a flexible can do attitude to your workcoupled with a focus on high quality service then one of these roles within a fast-paced and continuously developing environment could be just right for you.

Job responsibilities

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week, job share will be considered

Salary: Competitive, depending on experience

Location: Warwick House

Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility

Note: Duties and Areas of Responsibility will vary between the practices according to needs. They may include the following examples:

• a.See (whereappropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicineoptimisation is required
• b. Review theon-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and anopportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they getthe best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation).
• c. Run ownlong-term condition clinics where responsible for prescribing as an independentprescriber.

Patient facing clinical medication review:

• a.Undertakeclinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendationsfor/implement changes in prescribing and monitoring.
• a. Undertakeclinical medication reviews with patients/carers and produce recommendations/implement changes in prescribing and monitoring.
• b. Work withcare home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.

Patient facing domiciliary clinical medication review:

• a. Undertakeclinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for/implement changes in prescribing and monitoring.
• b. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case

Patient facing medicines support:

• a. Providepatient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns abouttheir medicines

Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments:

• a. Managingcaseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while workingwithin a scope of practice and limits of competence
• b. Signpostingto community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals