Clinical Pharmacist

4 weeks ago

Rugby, Warwickshire, United Kingdom Rugby Health Limited Full time
Job Summary

Rugby Health Limited is seeking an experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our Primary Care Network team. As a Clinical Pharmacist, you will play a vital role in providing high-quality patient care and contributing to the success of our organization.

Key Responsibilities
  • Manage a caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments, working within the scope of practice and formalized training limits to support all treatment and preventative healthcare services within the PCN.
  • Integrate with community and hospital pharmacy to utilize skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare, and manage workload.
  • Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients with multi-morbidity and polypharmacy, ordering relevant monitoring tests according to protocols and policies.
  • Review the ongoing need for each medicine, review monitoring needs, and support patients with their medicines taking, ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (medicines optimization).
  • Review the use of medicines most associated with unplanned hospital admissions and re-admissions, suggesting and recommending medicines management solutions to reduce the risk to identified patients and follow outcomes.
  • Prescribe safe, appropriately, and within limits of competence and independent prescribing qualification.
  • Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines, with some bookable appointments.
  • Work with case managers, multidisciplinary (health and social care) review teams, and hospital colleagues to manage medicines-related risk for re-admission and patient harm.
  • Participate in clinical audits, presenting results, and providing recommendations to improve projects.
  • Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by PCN, feedback the results, and implement changes in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary teams. Lead on evidence-based medicine and support CCG medicine strategies.
  • Adhere to national and local policy and guidance that affects patient safety through the use of medicines using MHRA alerts, product withdrawals, and emerging evidence from clinical trials.
  • Ensure prescribing is in accordance with APC guidelines and monitor prescribing of Specialist only/ initiated medicines (SO/SI). Support prescribers in the use of the formulary tools and local recommendations.
  • Provide education and training to the PCN on therapeutics and medicines optimization, where appropriate.
  • Provide support to the practices to ensure compliance to CQC standards where medicines are involved.
About Us

Rugby Health Limited is a private company limited by shares, wholly-owned by all the Rugby GP practices. As a GP-led organization, we represent 12 GP practice shareholders and cover over 122,000 patients. We describe our work as building on the core of current primary care services and enabling greater provision of proactive, personalized, coordinated, and more integrated health and social care.

Requirements
  • Full license holder with access to transport, as the post will require traveling to practices.
  • Clear vision of role and commitment to working in Primary Care.
  • Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
  • Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification.
  • Masters degree or equivalent in Pharmacy.

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