Clinical Prescribing Pharmacist

West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group; Cuffley; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Part time

Job summary

Cuffley and Goffs Oak Medical Practice is seeking a clinical pharmacist to join the team on a part-time basis (three days a week: ideally Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays). You will work in a patient-facing general practice role, supporting medicines optimisation, improving patient outcomes and contributing to high quality care.

The role involves clinical reviews, prescribing support, and leading on medicines improvement, with opportunities to run clinics and engage in public health and education

Qualifications

• Qualified pharmacist with UK registration (GPhC) and independent prescriber status.
• Post-qualification experience in primary care, hospital or community settings.
• Knowledge of medicines optimisation and ability to support NICE guidance.
• Commitment to patient confidentiality and professional codes of conduct.

Responsibilities

• Clinically assess and treat patients, optimise medications for chronic diseases.
• Provide medication reviews, education and information to patients.
• Lead medicines optimisation and contribute to quality improvement initiatives.
• Support safe discharge letters and communication with secondary care.
• Deliver clinics focusing on medicines as the main interventions.

Skills

UK professional registration (GPhC)

Independent prescriber

Post-qualification experience

Communication skills

Confidentiality

Medicine optimisation

Team collaboration

Education

Degree in Pharmacy

GPhC registration

Post-qualification experience in pharmacy

Royal Pharmaceutical Society membership

Tools

Ardens templates

Accurx

SystmOne

Job description

About the Role

Cuffley and Goffs Oak Medical Practice is seeking an enthusiastic and motivated clinical pharmacist to join our practice team. The position is part-time for three days a week - ideally Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in a patient-facing role within general practice, supporting medicines optimisation, improving patient outcomes and contributing to high quality care.

Main responsibilities

The main responsibilities of the role include:

• Clinically assessing and treating patients, using expert knowledge of medicines, for specific disease areas;
• Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines and medicine information (e.g. side-effects, dosage);
• Providing pharmaceutical medication review and health education advice to patients, by face-to-face, telephone or notes-based review, as agreed with the practice;
• Providing leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement;
• Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation and adult immunisation programmes;
• Processing specialist treatment letters;
• Supporting practice dispensary;
• Processing hospital medication discharge letters;
• Acting as a key contact, for all medication related queries;
• Supporting improvements in clinical care, through practice-based audits and implementing change;
• Running clinics where medicines are the main interventions;
• Conducting care-planning, including: mental health, admission avoidance schemes and end-of-life patients.
• Undertaking minor ailments triage and directing patients, based on clinical need;
• Capturing relevant patient health information at all consultations including contributing to the quality outcomes framework;
• Monitoring patients with complex, long-term conditions such as hypertension, diabetes and COPD, ensuring that medication is optimised, titrated, monitored and complied with;
• Providing clinical advice and expertise on medication;
• Establishing ongoing professional relationships with individual patients;
• Liaising with other providers, such as secondary care, community pharmacy and care or nursing homes, as necessary, to ensure the safe transfer of care;
• Delivering on and/or overseeing relevant aspects of the PCN Directed Enhanced Service (DES);
• Taking a central role in the clinical aspects of shared-care protocols, clinical research with medicines and liaison with specialist pharmacists;
• Managing the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process, by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates;
• Reviewing prescribing against local and national targets, and engaging with the wider prescribing team to rectify any issues

About the Candidate

You will be a qualified pharmacist with strong experience within primary care and have the following skills and qualifications:

• Completion of a degree in pharmacy;
• Current UK professional registration, with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC);
• Post-qualification experience in pharmacy (hospital, primary care or community), or working towards obtaining this;
• Qualified independent prescriber;
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS);
• Awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice;
• Ability to demonstrate general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas;
• Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general care plans for patients with long-term conditions;
• Ability to demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision as an individuals;
• Ability to recognise priorities when problem-solving and identify deviations from normal patterns, referring to seniors or GPs with confidence, when appropriate;
• Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies, procedures and codes of conduct;
• Ability to assist patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidance;
• Non-judgemental attitude and ability to be flexible and adaptable;
• Self-motivated with excellent communication skills;
• Understand the need for patient confidentiality.

About Us

We are a large practice based over two sites (just one mile apart) which are Valley View Health Centre and Cuffley Village Surgery - collectively known as Cuffley and Goffs Oak Medical Practice. We provide care to over 13,500 patients.

We have a happy, established team that consists of GPs, nurses and HCAs who are all supported by an experienced and organised admin team. We are also joined regularly and supported by colleagues from our PCN. We use Ardens templates, Accurx and SystmOne.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.