Senior Clinical Practice Pharmacist – Air Balloon Surgery

Avon Local Medical Committee Ltd; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 56,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension

Study leave

Annual leave

Birthday day off

Fresh fruit & drinks

GP Training practice

Park-Run Practice

Job summary

Air Balloon Surgery in Bristol is seeking a Senior Clinical Practice Pharmacist to lead our practice pharmacist team. The post is full-time (37.5 hours per week) and focuses on medicines management, clinical leadership, and improving patient safety within primary care.

The successful candidate will be an independent prescriber with primary care prescribing experience, able to provide clinical supervision and drive service development, audits, and quality improvement across the practice.

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years post-graduate experience.
• Independent prescriber with primary care prescribing experience.
• Experience leading a pharmacy team within a GP practice.

Responsibilities

• Lead the multi-disciplinary pharmacy team to meet medicines management service needs.
• Manage repeat prescribing, authorisations and renewals.
• Perform medication reviews, focusing on polypharmacy and high-risk patients.
• Lead medicines optimisation, audits, and local ICB projects.

Skills

Independent prescriber

Primary care prescribing

Team leadership

Clinical pharmacy

Education

MPharm degree

GPhC registration

Postgraduate clinical training

Job description

Senior Clinical Practice Pharmacist

Full-time – 5 days per week

AIR BALLOON SURGERY, BRISTOL

An opportunity to join and lead our well established and highly skilled practice employed pharmacist team, and would suit those with primary care experience looking for the next challenge.?

This is a permanent post, working solely for Air Balloon Surgery, and funded through the FABB PCN Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme. The post has become vacant as the existing post holder is leaving to focus on a new venture outside General Practice.

We have a long tradition of employing our own Practice Clinical Pharmacist, being one of the first in Bristol to do so. We fully recognise the value and important role this brings to the wider team. The pharmacy team’s work is well established into practice pathways and working arrangements.

The role of the Senior Clinical Practice Pharmacist is well embedded in the wider practice clinical team. We see this post as a senior clinical role within the wider clinical team and are keen to embrace and further develop the potential for clinical pharmacy in our practice vision for high quality clinical services. Leading our existing team of experienced prescribing Clinical Practice Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technician, the role of the Senior Clinical Practice Pharmacist is pivotal to improving the quality of care and ensuring patient safety.? The team manage a complex and varied program of working across all aspects of medicines management, and you will be working to improve value and outcomes from medicines and consult with and treat patients directly, pro-actively managing patients with chronic disease and complex poly-pharmacy.?This includes day-to-day and more developmental and strategic work. The post holder would lead this work along with quality improvement, audit and development of services.

The Practice Pharmacy team consists of 3 team members. This post will lead the team and provide clinical supervision to the other 2 team members with support from one of the GP partners and our local training hub.

The successful candidate will have a minimum of five years post graduate experience, be an independent prescriber with primary care prescribing experience, and will have completed the Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway.

You will have regular clinical supervision with a GP partner and will receive opportunities to grow and develop professionally.

We ensure a healthy work-life balance is maintained through the decisions we make, and we continually review our working structure to enable this.

Hours:

This post will be full-time, 37.5 hours per week ideally worked over 5 days. Consideration could be given to an alternative working pattern.

Pay:

Competitive salary offered, negotiable depending on experience and skill set, within range of £56,186 - £62,023 pro rata. Includes NHS Pension Scheme. One week study leave, 5.6 weeks pro rata annual leave per year plus any bank holidays, and day off on day of birthday if falls on a day you work.

About us:

• 4 Partners and 6 Associate (salaried) GPs
• Home Visits done by Frail Care Physiotherapist
• Extensively skilled nursing team, including Urgent Care Nurses and nurse prescribers
• Two clinical practice pharmacists including two prescribing
• Extremely supportive and highly-trained Care Navigator team.
• CPD well supported in-house and with external training
• Modern, spacious, purpose built premises
• GP Training practice
• We are a registered Park-Run Practice.
• Fresh fruit, tea & coffee provided
• Achieved overall ‘good’ CQC rating

More information

Informal enquiries welcome.? For more information, please contact Kate Milne-Brown at [e-mail] or Miffy Saunders at [e-mail] . For more information about us please see our Practice Profile.

Interviews

Details for initial interviews to be agreed with short-listed candidates.

Brief Job Summary

(Please see Job Description for full details) The successful candidate will be an experienced clinical pharmacist with previous experience of working in Primary Care, who acting within their professional boundaries and as part of the wider clinical team, will develop and manage medicine management services within the practice.

The post holder will:

• lead the multi-disciplinary pharmacy team, to meet practice service requirements for medicines management.
• manage systems and be part of the workforce relating to repeat prescribing, authorisations and reauthorisation, acute prescription request, management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing.
• lead processes and perform medication review of patients with polypharmacy especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities.
• provide leadership on medicines optimisation, leading on local ICB projects and schemes of work, quality improvement and clinical audit.

Provision of Clinical Services

• Long term conditions clinics
• Differential/undeferential diagnosis
• Care Navigation
• Telephone and patient facing medicines support
• Management of medicines at discharge from hospital
• Medication reviews
• Care home medication reviews
• Domiciliary clinical medication review

Leadership and Management

• Managing the pharmacy team
• Managing the practice pharmacy services

Dignity at Work and Equality Statement

We are committed to treating all of our staff and Service Users with dignity and respect. You are responsible for behaving in a way that is consistent with the aims of our Equality and Diversity Policy and the Equality Act (2010). This includes not discriminating unfairly in any area of your work and not bullying, harassing or otherwise intimidating other people.

You should recognise and appreciate that people, both colleagues and service users are different and to act in ways that are consistent with their needs and preferences.

You should at all times embody the ethos and values of Air Balloon Surgery and the Pharmacy Team.

Person Specification - Senior Clinical Pharmacist

Professional Registration

• Mandatory registration with t he general Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Membership of the RPS (Desirable)
• A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (Desirable)

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)
• Specialist knowledge acquired through post- graduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience (Desirable)
• Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining an independent prescribing qualification

Skills and knowledge

• An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
• Specialist knowledge in a clinical area such as heart failure, diabetes ect (desirable)
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)
• Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
• Good IT skills
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
• Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years post qualification experience.
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare.
• Previous line management experience (desirable)
• Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/ persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision

Personal Qualities and attributes

• Ability to motivate others
• Is able to manage multiple and complex numerous workstreams across a team
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Adaptable, self-motivating and hard working.
• Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
• Produce timely and inform itive reports
• Work effectively independently and as a team member
• Is able to bring qualities of innovative thinking, enthusiasm and commitment to the post

Other

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 an enhanced level 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 with the General Pharmaceutical Council. For further information please see Registers | General Pharmaceutical Council (pharmacyregulation.org)

https://www.airballoonsurgery.co.uk