Clinical Pharmacist (Maternity cover)

Lichfield and Burntwood GP Network Ltd.; Lichfield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare provider is seeking a Clinical Pharmacist to support practices in Lichfield and Burntwood. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing high-quality patient care, optimising medication use, and providing support to pharmacy teams. Ideal applicants should have a Master's in pharmacy, be registered with the GPhC, and possess strong communication and clinical skills. This is a key role within a dedicated network aiming for better patient outcomes.

Qualifications

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent.
• Qualified as an independent prescriber.

Responsibilities

• Conduct patient facing medication reviews and make recommendations.
• Manage repeat prescribing reauthorisation process.
• Support public health campaigns.

Skills

Patient care

Medicine optimisation

Communication skills

Clinical knowledge

Education

Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm)

Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

Qualified as an independent prescriber

Tools

EMIS

Docman

Job description

An opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Pharmacist to support the PCN(s) and practices in high quality patient focussed pharmacy services.

The successful candidate is a Clinical Pharmacist who is enthusiastic, highly motivated and key to delivering high quality patient care, medicine optimisation, pharmacy queries and support to pharmacy teams.

The PCN Network team already has excellent links with the PCN practices, local hospital, community pharmacies and care homes in the area, so you would be truly part of a larger team working for better patient care

Main duties of the job

Patient facing Long-term condition clinics - where appropriate patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required e.g. COPD, asthma. Review the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines i.e. medicines optimisation. Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement.

Patient facing Clinical Medication Review - Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.

Telephone medicine support.

Patient facing domiciliary clinical medication review - Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacists, nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.

Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments - Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate.

Management of medicines at discharge fromhospital - To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals,intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifyingunexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists toensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

About us

Lichfield and Burntwood GP Network Ltd was formed in 2018 and has evolved into two distinct but closely linked Primary Care Networks. The practices work closely together enabling greater provision of proactive, personalised, coordinated and more integrated health and social care for our communities. They are meeting the ambitions in the NHS Long Term Plan. We cover a patient population of over 78,000 and have a team of over 26 wte people working across and in the PCN practices. A Pharmacy team meeting takes place each month about pharmacy issues and developments along with a quarterly staff meeting.

Job responsibilities

Patient facing Long-term condition clinics -where appropriate patients with single or multiple medical problems wheremedicine optimisation is required e.g. COPD, asthma. Review the ongoing needfor each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to supportpatients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of theirmedicines (i.e. medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations toSenior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement.

Patient facing Clinical Medication Review - Undertakeclinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations forsenior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.

Patient facing care home medication reviews -Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendationsfor the senior clinical pharmacist, nurses or GPs on prescribing andmonitoring. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines orderingand administration.

Patient facing domiciliary clinical medicationreview - Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and producerecommendations for the senior clinical pharmacists, nurses and GPs onprescribing and monitoring. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary caseconferences.

Management of common/minor/self-limitingailments - Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or otherhealthcare professionals where appropriate.

Patient facing medicines support - Providepatient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns abouttheir medicines in the practice. Telephone medicines support - Provide atelephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns abouttheir medicines.

Medicine information to practice staff andpatients - Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practicestaff, other healthcare teams e.g. community pharmacy and patients withqueries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providingfollow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.

Unplanned hospital admissions - Review the useof medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions andreadmissions through audit and individual patient reviews. Put in place changesto reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups.

Management of medicines at discharge fromhospital - To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals,intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifyingunexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists toensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge. Set up andmanage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups ofpatients e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes.

Signposting - Ensure that patients are referredto the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of carewithin an appropriate period of time e.g. pathology results, common/minorailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc.

Repeat prescribing - Manage the repeatprescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeatprescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging upthose needing a review. Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests inplace when required.

Risk Stratification Identification of cohortsof patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-pared practicecomputer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicinerelated or both.

Service development - Contribute pharmaceuticaladvice for the development and implementation of new services that havemedicinal components e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient informationleaflets.

Information management - Analyse, interpret andpresent medicines data to highlight issues and risks to supportdecision-making.

Medicines quality improvement - Undertakeclinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback theresults and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.

Medicines safety - Implement changes tomedicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local andnational guidance.

Implementation of local and national guidelinesand formulary recommendations - Monitor practice prescribing against the localhealth economies RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines thatshould be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care(amber drugs). Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formularythat is hosted on the practices computer system. Auditing practices complianceagainst NICE technology assessment guidance. Provide newsletters or bulletinson important prescribing messages.

Education and Training - Provide education andtraining to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.

Care Quality Commission - Work with the generalpractice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards wheremedicines are involved.

Public health - To support public healthcampaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmesavailable to the public.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council GPhC
• Masters degree in pharmacy MPharm or equivalent
• Qualified as an independent prescriber
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate diploma or equivalent training/experience

Experience

• Working knowledge of GP IT systems including EMIS, Docman
• Experience of working with operational teams, cross organisations and a range of professionals
• 2 years GP - Primary Care experience

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.