Senior Experienced Clinical Pharmacist

Integrated Care System; London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in London is seeking a highly skilled Senior Clinical Pharmacist for the Primary Care Network 7. The role involves managing chronic conditions and optimizing medication management to deliver exceptional patient care. The successful candidate will collaborate with a dynamic team and support clinical decision-making. Competitive salary and opportunities for professional development are included.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Opportunities for professional development

Free onsite parking

Qualifications

• Completion of an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy, and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Minimum of 3 years post-qualification experience.
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

Responsibilities

• Manage patients and healthcare professionals' medicine queries.
• Hold clinics for patients requiring structured medication reviews.
• Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorization process.

Skills

Therapeutic knowledge

Clinical understanding

Complex information communication

Interpersonal skills

Clinical decision-making

Education

Pharmacy degree

General Pharmaceutical Council registration

Independent prescriber

Tools

EMIS

Job description

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Clinical Pharmacist to join our Primary Care Network 7, which consists of Oak Lodge Medical Centre and Mulberry Practice. The successful candidate will be predominantly based at Mulberry Practice and report directly to the PCN Lead Clinical Pharmacist and the Lead PCN clinical directors. You will work collaboratively with a dynamic team of pharmacists and a pharmacy technician to deliver exceptional patient care and optimize medication management.

Main duties of the job

You will assist with the following key areas:

Chronic conditions management and clinic provision in areas including hypertension, diabetes, asthma, COPD etc

Experience in lipid management and ability to initiate/monitor cholesterol lowering medications during cardiovascular medication reviews

Able to support the practice to achieve its QOF targets / and other practice targets which involve prescribing using clinical protocols

Support pharmacy technician and junior pharmacist with clinical and pharmaceutical problems and provide guidance on complex medicines-related queries

Provide expertise in clinical medicines review and address public health and social needs of patients in GP practices

Collaborative working as part of PCN7 prescribing hub

Reduce inappropriate polypharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review

Improve the incidence of medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines

Liaise with community pharmacy and hospital pharmacy teams to ensure continuity of care and resolution of medication queries

Manage the repeat prescribing re authorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates

Manage patients and healthcare professionals medicine queries

Increase quality and safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audits and recall systems

About us

Competitive salary and benefits package.

Opportunities for professional development and career progression

Free onsite parking

Job responsibilities

Job title: Senior ExperiencedClinical pharmacist

Mode: On site during probatory period then transition tohybrid

Salary: Depends on experience (band 8a)

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled andexperienced Senior Clinical Pharmacist to join our Primary Care Network 7,which consists of Oak Lodge Medical Centre and Mulberry Practice. Thesuccessful candidate will be predominantly based at Mulberry Practice andreport directly to the PCN Lead Clinical Pharmacist and the Lead PCN clinicaldirectors. You will work collaboratively with a dynamic team of pharmacists anda pharmacy technician to deliver exceptional patient care and optimizemedication management.

You will assist with the following keyareas:

Chronic conditions management and clinicprovision in areas including hypertension, diabetes, asthma, COPD etc

Experience in lipid management andability to initiate/monitor cholesterol lowering medications duringcardiovascular medication reviews

Able to support the practice to achieveits QOF targets / and other practice targets which involve prescribing usingclinical protocols

Support pharmacy technician and juniorpharmacist with clinical and pharmaceutical problems and provide guidance oncomplex medicines-related queries

Provide expertise in clinical medicinesreview and address public health and social needs of patients in GP practices

Collaborative working as part of PCN7prescribing hub

Reduce inappropriate polypharmacy andwasteful prescribing through clinical medication review

Improve the incidence of medicine relatedhospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the bestoutcomes from their medicines

Liaise with community pharmacy andhospital pharmacy teams to ensure continuity of care and resolution ofmedication queries

Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions andmedicines reaching review dates

Manage patients and healthcareprofessionals medicine queries

Increase quality and safety ofprescribing through mechanisms such as audits and recall systems

Manage practice formularies to improvethe quality, safety and cost effectiveness of prescribing Implement drugwithdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety

Work with primary care professional andpatients to implement NICE and other evidence-based guidelines

Run clinics where medicines are the mainintervention including DOAC monitoring

Provide medicines information andtraining to Practice healthcare professionals and admin staff

Act as a source of medicines informationfor all of the practice team and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects,adverse events, possible alternatives e.g. around out of stocks)

Competitive salary and benefits package.

Opportunities for professionaldevelopment and career progression

Free onsite parking

Primary roles andresponsibilities

MedicationReviews

• Holdclinics for patients requiring face-to-face structured medicationreviews i.e. a review of the ongoing need for each medicine, a review ofmonitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with theirmedicine taking.
• Providea telephone support for patients with questions, queries, and concernsabout their medicines.
• Undertakestructured medication reviews with patients with multi-morbidity andpolypharmacy and implement own prescribing changes (as an independentprescriber) and order relevant monitoring test.

Long TermConditions

• Seepatients in long term condition clinics and implement improvements topatient's medicines, including de-prescribing.
• Manageown case load, run own long-term condition clinics in conjunction withGPs and support clinical decision making when medicine management inputis required
• Reviewthe ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and anopportunity to support patients with their medicines taking.

High-riskMedication Reviews

• Managepatients at risk of hospital admissions and harm from poor use ofmedicines.
• Undertakeclinical medication reviews with patients with multi-morbidity andpolypharmacy and implement own prescribing changes (as an independentprescriber) and order relevant monitoring tests.
• Attendand refer patients to multidisciplinary case meetings.

RepeatPrescribing

• Produceand implement a practice repeat prescribing policy.
• Managethe repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patientrequests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reachingreview dates.
• Ensurepatients are booked in for necessary monitoring tests where required.

Managementof Medicines at Discharge from Hospital

• Performa clinical medication review, produce a post discharge medicines careplan including dose titration and booking of follow up tests and workingwith patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive themedicines they need post discharge.
• Collaborativewith the existing PCN pharmacy team to deliver on PCN targets, includingCQC, Payment Quality Scheme (PQS) and other relevant workstreams
• Provideregular feedback to improve the working relations of the pharmacy teamacross both sites.

Cost Saving

Makerecommendations for, and manage pharmacy technicians to, make changes tomedicines (switches) designed to save on medicine costs where a medicine orproduct with lower acquisition cost is now available.

ClinicalAdvice and Expertise on Medicines

• Answersall medicine-related enquiries from GPs and other practice staff withqueries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions.
• Providetelephone advice for patients with questions, queries and concerns abouttheir medicines. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effectof any changes.

Care QualityCommission

To ensurethe practice(s) are compliant with CQC standards where medicines areinvolved.

Training

Provideeducation and training to the Practice staff on therapeutics and medicinesoptimisation.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Professional registration and qualifications:
• - Completion of an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy, and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• - Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• - Independent prescriber
• - Minimum of 3 years post--qualification experience.
• Professional registration and qualifications:
• - Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• - Have worked in general practice for at least 1 year

Experience

• Skills, knowledge, and experience:
• - In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
• - Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form
• - An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing
• - Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
• - Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• - Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form
• - Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
• - 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
• - Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
• - Produce timely and informative reports
• - 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
• - Work effectively, independently and as a team member
• - Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
• - Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions
• Skills, knowledge, and experience:
• - Experience of EMIS

Management

• Management:
• - Demonstrates understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision
• - Demonstrates ability to improve quality within limitations of service
• - Reviews last years progress and develops clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others
• - Demonstrates ability to motivate self to achieve goals
• - Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management
• - Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol
• - Demonstrates understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service

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.

Depending on experienceDepends on experience (band 8a)