About this role
Job summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated experienced general Practice Pharmacist who is committed to developing their knowledge and skills to improve patient care.
The Practice-based Clinical Pharmacist will improve the quality and safety of care offered to patients of Harford Health Centre. They will have regular contact with patients and will reduce the workload of GP prescribers in the practice by performing structured medication reviews. They will also support the management of patients with long-term conditions by reviewing repeat medication requests.
They will co-ordinate prescribers at the practice to ensure that appropriate medication is prescribed, ensuring that income and dispensary profit is maintained whilst fulfilling the requirements of CCG and locality initiatives.
Main duties of the job
The Clinical Pharmacist will develop and manage medicines optimisation services within primary care.
The key aims for the clinical pharmacist are:
To reduce the medicines related workload on doctors
Increase safety and quality of prescribed medicines
Provide support on medicines related issues to the whole practice team
Be a point of contact for patients regarding medicines queries
A senior advisory role in the day to day running of the dispensary
They should support the following clinical work:
Clinical Medication Review
Chronic Disease Management (for example, managing hypertension/Type 2 Diabetes/Asthma/COPD patients, polypharmacy review)
Use appropriate CCG provided clinical templates within the EMIS Web Clinical System
Medicines reconciliation on transfer between care providers
They should also support the following practice development work:
Focusing on QoF Domains, improving disease registers
Prescribing Safety, Clinical audit, Local Enhanced Services support
Lead on prescription management (systems and processes, ensuring monitoring is being done, supporting dispensary & clerical (repeat prescription) staff)
About us
Harford Health Centre is located in a purpose built health centre building. This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward thinking modern General Practice. We have a list size of 10000 patients which will be increasing over the coming years as new residences are built in our locality.
Job description Job responsibilities
The Practice-based Clinical Pharmacist will improve the quality and safety of care offered to patients of Harford Health Centre. They will have regular contact with patients and will reduce the workload of GP prescribers in the practice by performing structured medication reviews. They will also support the management of patients with long-term conditions by reviewing repeat medication requests.
The successful candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to manage medicines on transfer of care (hospital discharge) and will use systems for safer prescribing including Eclipse. They will perform face-to-face medication reviews ofpatients with polypharmacy; especially for those with frailty and/or with multiple co-morbidities. They will undertake face-to-face reviews of patients with specific long term conditions that fall within their competency. They will provide leadership on quality improvement and clinical audit, as well as managing aspects of medicines safety and antibiotic stewardship.
They will co-ordinate prescribers at the practice to ensure that appropriate medication is prescribed, ensuring that income and dispensary profit is maintained whilst fulfilling the requirements of CCG and locality initiatives.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Essential Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent Registered with GPhC Member of RPS
Desirable
Postgraduate knowledge through a Postgraduate Diploma and qualifications (e.g. clinical, community, therapeutics) or equivalent. Independent prescriber status
Experience Essential
Additional qualification in chronic disease or minor ailments would be advantageous. Experience in medication reviews and basic clinical skills. A community or CCG background who have experience with drug budgets and switches.
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 Harford Health Centre
Address Unit 2, Harford Multi Centre
115 Harford Street
London
E1 4FG
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://harfordhealthcentre.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)