Clinical Pharmacist Position

5 days ago

Ely, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom Ely PCNs Full time
Job Title: Clinical Pharmacist

We are seeking an experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our team at Ely PCNs. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing clinical pharmacy services to our patients and working closely with our healthcare professionals to improve patient outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Support PCN Pharmacy Technicians
  • Conduct clinical medication reviews
  • Provide patient-facing clinics for people living with long-term conditions
  • Receive on-the-day referrals for patients needing advice and guidance
  • Offer advice and support to patients and colleagues
  • Manage common/minor/self-limiting ailments
  • Provide medicine information to practice staff and patients
  • Signposting
  • Repeat prescribing
  • Offer support, education and training to others
  • Support reduction in unplanned hospital admissions
  • Manage medicines after discharge from hospital
  • Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care, and admissions to Care Homes
  • Support public health campaigns
  • Safety netting in all contact with patients, check for interactions, contraindications, and red flags and offer safety-netting advice and follow-up where appropriate
  • Risk stratification and identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines using clinical databases
  • Information management, contemporary research and service development
  • Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making
  • Medicines quality improvement and medicines safety
  • Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the relevant practice team
  • Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance
  • Work with the general practice teams to ensure the Practices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. Support Practices with CQC inspections
  • Communicating key updates to Practice colleagues
  • Offer support to Practices to ensure that their systems of communicating and recording alerts and significant events is robust
  • Support implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations
  • Monitor Practice prescribing against the local dashboards
  • Supporting the PCN Network DES
  • Collaborative working
Requirements:
  • Minimum of three years experience as a Pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio
  • Experience and an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-terms conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice
  • Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations
Desirable:
  • More than three years experience as a Pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio
Professional Registration:
  • Current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Skills and Knowledge:
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
  • Demonstrates and understanding of, and conformity to, relevant Standards of Practice
  • Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management
  • Able to plan, manage, monitor and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
  • Able to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol
  • Demonstrable understanding of the principles and importance of Clinical Governance
  • Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports
  • Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
  • Able to gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action, including when there may be significant barriers
  • Knowledge of and ability to work to policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and health and safety
Working Conditions:
  • The post holder is required to travel independently between work sites and to attend meetings etc hosted by other agencies
  • In the course of clinical practice, the post-holder may be exposed to body fluids, wound exudates, urine and so on, and the risks this may bring
  • The post-holder will have access to Personal Protective Equipment and is expected to comply with all infection control and health and safety policies and protocols accordingly
Personal Qualities and Attributes:
  • Ability to organise, plan and prioritise workload on own initiative
  • Adaptable and resilient
  • Able to work well under pressure, and meet agreed deadlines
  • Demonstrates personal accountability, and is able to recognise personal limitations and ask for support / refer to more appropriate colleagues when necessary
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Adapts communication styles and interpersonal skills to best gain the cooperation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations, CCGs)
  • Ability to maintain effective working relationships and to promote collaborative practice with all colleagues
  • Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk when working with individuals
  • Committed to reducing health inequalities and proactively working to reach people from all communities
  • Committed to engaging with organisational policies, including safe working practices, mandatory training and supervision and appraisal
  • Willingness to work flexibly when needs of service, or patients, require
  • Good fit with PCN and Practice teams

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