Clinical Prescribing Pharmacist

Primary Care Careers; Cuffley, Goffs Oak; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

Cuffley and Goffs Oak Medical Practice is seeking a proactive clinical pharmacist to join our team on a part-time basis (three days per week). You will support medicines optimisation, improve patient outcomes and help deliver high-quality care within our two-site practice.

The role focuses on patient-facing care, clinically reviewing medications, and contributing to public health initiatives within the PCN. 2 sites, friendly team, and supportive admin staff.

Qualifications

• Pharmacist degree and GPhC registration are essential.
• Post-qualification experience in primary care or hospital is desirable.
• Qualified independent prescriber status is required or to be pursued.
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Clinically assess and treat patients, using medicines knowledge.
• Provide medicines information, reviews and education to patients.
• Lead medicines optimisation and quality improvement activities.
• Support the practice dispensary and hospital discharge letters.

Skills

Pharmacy degree

GPhC registration

Post-qualification experience

Independent prescriber

RPS member

Medicine optimisation

Patient-facing care

Education

Degree in Pharmacy

Tools

SystmOne

Ardens templates

Accurx

Job description

Job summary

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 duties of the job

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.

Job responsibilities

• 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.

Person Specification

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

Essential

• 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.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.