Clinical Pharmacist

3 weeks ago

Chelmsford Essex, United Kingdom West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group Full time

About the Role

Little Waltham and Great Notley Surgeryis looking to welcome a qualified and experienced clinical pharmacist into our busy practice, to play a full and active role within our multi-disciplinary team. The role is offered on a full-time basis.

The main responsibilities of the role include :

  • Clinically assessing and treating patients, using expert knowledge of medicines, for specific disease areas;
  • Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines and medicine information (e.g. side-effects, dosage);
  • Providing pharmaceutical medication review and health education advice to patients, by face-to-face, telephone or notes-based review, as agreed with the practice;
  • Providing leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement;
  • Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation and adult immunisation programmes;
  • Processing specialist treatment letters;
  • Supporting practice dispensary;
  • Processing hospital medication discharge letters;
  • Acting as a key contact, for all medication related queries;
  • Supporting improvements in clinical care, through practice-based audits and implementing change;
  • Running clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoringclinics;
  • Conducting spirometry, child immunisation, travel vaccination, diabetic foot checks andNHS health checks, as well as other tasks, as required, on completion of appropriate training;
  • Conducting care-planning, including mental health, admission avoidance schemes, and end-of-life patients.
  • Reviewing daily pathology results and act on results.
  • Undertaking minor ailments triage and directing patients, based on clinical need;
  • Capturing relevant patient health information at all consultations including contributing to the quality outcomes framework;
  • Monitoring patients with complex, long-term conditions such as hypertension, diabetesand COPD, ensuring that medication is optimised, titrated, monitored and complied with;
  • Providing clinical advice and expertise on medication;
  • Establishing ongoing professional relationships with individual patients;
  • Liaising with other providers, such as secondary care, communitypharmacy and care or nursing homes, as necessary, to ensure the safe transfer of care;
  • Delivering on and/or overseeing relevant aspects of the PCN Directed Enhanced Service (DES).
  • Taking a central role in the clinical aspects of shared-care protocols, clinical research withmedicines and liaison with specialist pharmacists;
  • Being part of a professional clinical network and having access to appropriate clinicalsupervision;
  • Supporting the PCN clinical director as necessary;
  • Managing the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process, by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates;
  • Reviewing prescribing against local and national targets, and engaging with the wider prescribing team to rectify any issues;
  • Carrying out structured medicines-optimisation reviews in care homes;
  • Contributing to the reduction of medicine wastage within practices across the PCN.

About the Candidate

You will be a qualified pharmacist with strong experience within primary care and have the following skills and qualifications:

  • Completion of a degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council;
  • Post-qualification experience in pharmacy (hospital, primary care or community), or working towards obtaining this;
  • Qualified independent prescriber, or working towards this;
  • Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS);
  • Awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice;
  • Ability to demonstrate general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas;
  • Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general care plans for patients with long-term conditions;
  • Ability to demonstrateaccountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision as an individuals;
  • Ability to recognise priorities when problem-solving and identify deviations from normal patterns, referring to seniors or GPs with confidence, when appropriate;
  • Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies, procedures and codes of conduct;
  • Ability to assistpatients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidance;
  • Non-judgemental attitude and ability to be flexible and adaptable;
  • Self-motivated with excellentcommunication skills;
  • Understand the need for patient confidentiality.

About Us

We are a 2-site, friendly training practice, with over 20,000 patients.You will be supported by our team of 10 doctors, 3 nurse practitioners, paramedic, nurses, healthcare assistants, receptionist and admin team.

For further information about the role please contact Beverley Lampitt at beverley.lampitt@nhs.net.

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