Senior Clinical Pharmacist

Portsdown Group Practice; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in Portsmouth is seeking an experienced clinical pharmacist to work in a varied, patient-facing role. The successful candidate will provide primary support for prescription queries and help run chronic disease management clinics. Qualifications include a postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy and full registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council. The position also offers the chance to engage in quality improvement projects within a supportive multi-disciplinary team environment. This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to high-quality patient care.

Qualifications

• Must have a full UK driving licence.
• Experience of working in general practice or primary care.
• Ongoing professional development (CPD) evidence required.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safe, evidence-based prescribing.
• Reconcile medications after hospital discharge.
• Run chronic disease management clinics.

Skills

Clinical knowledge

Communication skills

Negotiation skills

Ability to work under pressure

Organizational skills

Education

Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or prescribing

Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

Are you an experienced and motivated clinical pharmacist?

Would you like to work in a progressive practice in an exciting and varied role?

If you are proactive, innovative, organised and enthusiastic and possess the skills essential for this post, then we look forward to hearing from you.

Main duties of the job

To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. Providing primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. Support the established repeat prescription system (centralised prescription hub), medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing. Run chronic disease management clinics. Provide structured medication reviews, quality improvement projects as well as undertaking some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework (QOF) and enhanced services.

About us

Portsdown Group Practice covers the whole of Portsmouth frompostcodes PO1 to PO7. We operate from 6surgeries: Cosham Park House (PO6 3BG), Crookhorn Lane (PO7 5XP, Heyward Road(PO4 0DY), Kingston Crescent (PO2 8AL), Paulsgrove (PO6 4HJ), and Somerstown(PO5 4EZ).

We are our own Primary Care Network (PCN). We have ClinicalPartners, Salaried GPs and a comprehensive Nursing and extended clinical teamoverseen by our Clinical Team Manager.The team consists of Nurse / Paramedic Practitioners, Registered Nurses,HCAs, first contact Physiotherapists, Podiatrist, Social Prescribersand Care Co-ordinators. The Pharmacy team consists of Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians.

The Practice is well established, financially secure, andsuccessful.

Job responsibilities

Ensure delivery of safe, evidence based, cost effective prescribing within an overall quality and clinical effectiveness framework.

Reconcile medicines following discharge form hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with community pharmacists and secondary care to ensure patients are supported and receive the medicines they need post discharge

Please see our comprehensive vacancy pack to the right (or at the bottom if you are looking at this on a phone), for the full job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council of Great Britain
• Evidence of ongoing CPD
• Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or prescribing

Other

• Flexible approach to working patterns and ability to adapt to changing priorities
• Must have a full UK driving licence and be able to travel to a number of locations within the City of Portsmouth
• Available to occasional working outside of normal working hours

Knowledge

• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
• Good understanding of prescribing clinical governance, and risk management relating to primary care
• Sound understanding of the need for confidentiality
• An appreciation of the working nature of GPs and general practice
• Familiarity with general practice clinical systems / SystmOne

Skills

• Able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
• Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills
• Ability to influence, motivate and persuade prescribers to comply with the recommendations or agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
• Ability to work under pressure and deal with unpredictable issues arising on a daily basis
• Enthusiastic, innovative and highly motivated
• Proven ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audience

Experience

• Experience of working as a pharmacist in one or more different sectors such as community, primary or secondary care.
• Experience of dealing with people, to maintain a high level of care
• Experience of working in general practice or a primary care setting
• Experience of working in Hospital Pharmacy
• Experience of working as a pharmacist in one or more different sectors such as community, primary or secondary care
• Experience of dealing with people, to maintain a high level of care
• Experience of working in general practice or a primary care setting
• Experience of working in Hospital Pharmacy

Other

• Do you require sponsorship from Portsdown Group Practice?

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.