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An exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic Clinical Pharmacist has arisen to join our team at North Preston Medical Practice. The working hours for this position are part time and flexible.

This position will support and contribute to the clinical team dealing with day to day acute conditions alongside medication reviews and repeat prescribing, whilst supporting the in-house pharmacy team.

We are looking for an individual who has excellent communication and adaptability to the ever-changing NHS. We will provide a friendly and supportive environment to work in alongside development and training.

The post holder will manage and undertake the following duties:

- Clinical medication reviews

- Acute and minor aliment clinics within the candidates competency framework

- Deal with incoming hospital discharges and third party letters

- Repeat prescribing

- Medicine safety and quality audits

- Care Quality Commission work

- Contractual target based work

- Deal with medicine related queries

This is not an exhaustive list of responsibilities associated with the position.

We like to think that North Preston Medical Practice is a great place to work, with a CQC overall rating as good.

Our people are dedicated to providing the absolute best care for our patients and supporting each other whilst doing this.

Working over our 2 sites (Ingol & Fulwood) you will be a member of the in-house pharmacy team which comprises of 1 Clinical Pharmacist (post advertised for) two Pharmacy Technicians and a Medicines Coordinator.

The practice also has 5 GP partners, 3 salaried GP's, 1 Advanced Nurse Practitioner, 4 Practice Nurses, 1 Nurse Associate, 1 HCA, plus a very supportive and friendly and administrative team.

North Preston Medical Practice is a training practice for medical students, foundation and specialist trainees.

The post-holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management, provide face to face and telephone structured medication reviews, manage long-term conditions, ensure systems for safe prescribing, addressing public health and social care needs of patients at the practice. The post-holder will perform review of patients with poly-pharmacy especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities.

This role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation to deliver an excellent service within general practice.

• Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and care homes producing prescribing and monitoring guidance for network practices.
• Provide proactive leadership on medicines and prescribing systems to the multidisciplinary team, patients and their carers
• Maximise the use of technology and management systems to provide management of safety, risk and information
• Focusing on prevention of illness and personalised care, and supporting patients to make informed decisions about their care and look after their own health, by connecting them with the full range of statutory and voluntary services
• Deliver training, mentoring and guidance to other clinicians and staff on medicine issues
• Support the network practices in improving the health of their patients through the rational and safe use of medicines
• Undertake responsibility for areas of QoF and Quality Contract and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy
• Co-ordinate and lead meetings ensuring key performance indicators are identified and plans for achievement shared.
• Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved
• Provide advice for the GP management of more complex patients / polypharmacy patients
• Report medicines related incidents, contribute to investigations and root cause analyses
• Participate in serious incident investigations and multidisciplinary case reviews
• Computer data entry/data allocation and collation, processing and recording information in accordance with practice procedures
• Initiating contact with and responding to requests from patients, other team members and associated healthcare professionals and providers
• Participate in the primary care network MDT liaising with key stake-holders to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.

• Ability to manage and prioritise workload
• Proven ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Demonstrates understanding of the implications of local and national priorities for the practice and its population
• Demonstrates understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace
• Good communication and record keeping skills
• Experience in using I.T based patient documentation systems
• Able to professionally and appropriately challenge differing opinions as a patient advocate.
• Experience and awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-terms conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice
• Able to work autonomously, using own clinical judgment to form clinical plan
• Dispensing skills as per protocols and patient group directives
• Knowledge of medical model of documentation
• Able to give appropriate telephone advice
• Understanding of health education/promotion
• Experience of following referral pathways
• Awareness / Knowledge of child protection issues
• Experience of clinical audit and research projects
• Commitment to reducing health inequalities and proactively working with reach people from all communities

• Able to work cooperatively with the multi-disciplinary team.
• Able and willing to develop professionally.
• Able to use own initiative.
• Able to deal with violence, aggression and extreme situations.
• Vaccine and immunity status in accordance with UK Department of Health Guidelines
• Able to deal with sensitive issues e.g. sudden death/bereavement, child abuse, domestic violence.
• Able to adjust and respond in rapidly changing environments.
• Able to work in a calm and organised manner in situations of extreme workload.
• Hold a current driving licence with business insurance.
• Enhanced DBS disclosure.
• Experience of Microsoft Office applications
• Experience of EMIS
• Experience of Eclipse
• Able to promote a learning environment

• Degree in pharmacy with post graduate experience in pharmacy
• Medical prescriber
• Be enrolled in or have qualified from a CPPE-commissioned training pathway
• Evidence of continued professional development
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Committee
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Teaching and assessing qualification

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.