About this role
Job summary
The post-holder is a Clinical Pharmacist.
Currently, as this role is for 1-day per week, with potential increase in hours in the near future.
The Clinical Pharmacist acts within their professional boundaries, working alongside a team of pharmacists in general practice within the wider PCN.
They will improve patients health outcomes and the efficiency of the primary care team by providing direct, accessible and timely medicines and expertise including face to face contact with patients.
The post-holder will be an integral part of the general practice team, as well as part of a wider pharmacist network and multi-disciplinary team. This includes being a conduit of patients medicine information into and out of hospitals. They will work to optimise medication issues to improve patient care and safety, and support clinical staff in the management of patients.
As part of their employment, the post-holder will achieve qualifications from an accredited training pathway, including independent prescribing, equipping the Clinical Pharmacist to be able to practise and prescribe safely and effectively in a primary care setting.
The supervision and mentorship network will be provided to support the Clinical Pharmacist.
Main duties of the job
Work within a multidisciplinary, patient-facing team to clinically assess, treat & prescribe for patients using advanced medicines expertise. Manage long-term conditions & complex polypharmacy, elderly, frail, care home residents & those with COPD, asthma, learning disabilities or autism (including STOMP). Conduct structured medication reviews, improve adherence, reduce waste, promote self-care & address health inequalities.
Lead medicines optimisation, antimicrobial stewardship & quality improvement, contribute to QOF, enhanced services & NICE/CQC standards. Be a contact for medicines queries, shared care protocols, anticoagulation, high-risk drug monitoring, liaise with community, hospital & specialist pharmacists. Deliver clinics, home visits & domiciliary reviews; manage complex caseloads, therapeutic monitoring & repeat prescribing systems.
Support integration across health & social care, supervise safe storage & disposal of medicines, maintain accurate records, ensure safeguarding compliance & encourage cost-effective prescribing. Provide education, audit & research input to improve prescribing quality. Support vulnerable patients, those at risk of admission & with substance dependency or severe mental illness.
Participate in professional networks with structured supervision. Contribute to governance, complaints review, mandatory training, appraisal, public health campaigns & service development. Undertake additional duties as required by workload & staffing needs.
About us
We are a small and friendly GP practice located in Long Eaton, with excellent access to Nottingham or Derby or further afield, with junction 25 of the M1 being less than 2 miles away. We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated individualto join our friendly and caring Practice as a Clinical Pharmacist.
We pride ourselves on being a well-established training practice providing general medical services for our practice list of 5800 patients. This is a rewarding and varied role for a GP who shares our ethos of providing patient centred care and is motivated to maintain and improve our high QOF achievement and contribute to the development of the organisational and business aspect of the Practice.
We are a fully computerised Practice, using TPP SystmOne and working towards becoming paper light. We have an integrated nursing team including a Nursing team, Health Care Assistant and an efficient and supportive administration team.
We are a fully computerised Practice, using TPP SystmOne and working towards becoming paper light. We have an integrated nursing team including a Nursing team, Health Care Assistant and an efficient and supportive administration team.
Job description Job responsibilities
The following are the core responsibilities of the Clinical Pharmacist delivering health services.
a.Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas
b.Be a prescriber, or completing training to become a prescriber, and work with and alongside the general practice team
c.Be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP Stop Over Medication Programme)
d.Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the organisation and to help in tackling inequalities
e.Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services
f.Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care
g.Have a leadership role in supporting further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help to improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help to manage general practice workload
h.Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across the wider health and social care system
i.Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties), liaison with community pharmacists, and anticoagulation
j.Be part of a professional clinical network and have access to appropriate clinical supervision. Appropriate clinical supervision means:
k.Each Clinical Pharmacist must receive a minimum of one supervision session per month by a senior clinical pharmacist
l.The Senior Clinical Pharmacist must receive a minimum of one supervision session every three months by a GP clinical supervisor
m.Each Clinical Pharmacist will have access to an assigned GP clinical supervisor for support and development
n.A ratio of one Senior Clinical Pharmacist to no more than five junior Clinical Pharmacists, with appropriate peer support and supervision in place
o.Act as the point of contact for all medicine related matters, establishing positive working relationships
p.Consult patients within defined levels of competence and independently prescribe acute and repeat medication
q.Receive referrals and directed patients from triage services and other clinicians
r.Receive and resolve medicines queries from patients and other staff
s.Provide medication review services for patients in the practice and during domiciliary visits to the local nursing home
t.Manage a caseload of complex patients
u.Manage a therapeutic drug monitoring system and the recall of patients taking high risk drugs, i.e., anticoagulants, anticonvulsants and DMARDs, etc.
v.Deliver long term condition clinics and home visits, particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes, and prescribe accordingly
w.Provide pharmaceutical consultations to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team
x.Review medications for newly registered patients
y.Improve patient and carer understanding of confidence in and compliance with their medication
z.Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
aa.Encourage cost-effective prescribing throughout the organisation
bb.Implement and embed a robust repeat prescribing system
cc.Provide advice and answer medication related queries from patients and staff
dd.Organise and oversee the organisations medicines optimisation systems, including the repeat prescribing and medication review systems
ee.Improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education, to improve performance against NICE standards and clinical and prescribing guidance.
ff.Develop yourself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training and service redesign activities
gg.Ensure appropriate supervision of safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs. Apply infection-control measures within the practice according to local and national guidelines
hh.Provide subject matter expertise on medication monitoring, implementing and embedding a system
ii.Support clinicians with the management of patients suffering from drug and alcohol dependencies
jj.Actively signpost patients to the correct healthcare professional
kk.Manage a caseload of complex patients and potential care institutions and to provide advice for the GP management of more complex patients or areas such as addictive behaviours, severe mental illness or end of life care
ll.Review the latest guidance, ensuring the organisation conforms to NICE, CQC etc.
mm.Be aware of duties and responsibilities regarding current legislation and adhere to practice policies and procedures on Safeguarding Adults and Safeguarding Children
nn.Provide targeted support and proactive reviews for vulnerable, complex patients and those at risk of admission and re-admission to secondary care
oo.Handle prescription queries and requests directly
pp.Provide proactive leadership on medicines and prescribing systems to the organisation, patients and their carers
qq.Support in the delivery of enhanced services and other service requirements on behalf of the organisation
rr.Participate in the management of patient complaints when requested to do so, and participate in the identification of any necessary learning brought about through clinical incidents and near-miss events
ss.Undertake all mandatory training and induction programmes
tt.Contribute to and embrace the spectrum of clinical governance
uu.Attend a formal appraisal with your manager at least every 12 months. Once a performance/training objective has been set, progress will be reviewed on a regular basis so that new objectives can be agreed
vv.Contribute to public health campaigns (e.g., COVID-19 or flu clinics) through advice or direct care
ww.Maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area at all times
There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks, this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels
Person Specification
Clinical knowledge and skills Essential
Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information effectively with people at all levels by telephone, email and face to face Excellent interpersonal, influencing, negotiation and organisational skills with the ability to constructively challenge the views and practices of managers and clinicians Understanding of safeguarding adults and children Ability to promote best practice regarding all pharmaceutical matters Ability to work within own scope of practice and understand when to refer to GPs Ability to record accurate clinical notes
Desirable
Good clinical system IT knowledge Plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
Qualifications Essential
GPC registered pharmacist Proof of relevant professional and educational qualifications, coupled with details of any training To be enrolled in, or have qualified from, an approved 18-month training pathway or equivalent that equips them to be able to practice and prescribe safely and effectively in a primary care setting (for example, the CPPE clinical pharmacist training pathways) Hold or be working towards an GPhC independent prescribing qualification
Desirable
Working towards faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Medicines management qualification Minor ailments certification MUR and repeat dispensing certification
Experience Essential
* Experience in managing pharmacy services in primary care * An appreciation of the nature of general practice and the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing * Minimum of two years working as a pharmacist demonstrated within a practice portfolio * An appreciation of the new NHS landscape, including the relationships between individual practices, PCNs and the commissioners * Ability to support Pharmacy Technician
Desirable
In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare Understanding of the mentorship process Experience of working autonomously
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).
Employer details Employer name College Street Medical Practice
Address 86 College Street
Long Eaton
Nottingham
NG10 4NP
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.collegestreetmedicalpractice.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)