Clinical Pharmacist

About the Role Larksfield and Arlesey Medical Partnership is 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 of 37 hours per week over a 4/5 day working pattern. 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 ( 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. Processing specialist treatment letters; 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 anticoagulant monitoring clinics; Conducting care-planning, including mental health, admission avoidance schemes, and end-of-life patients. Reviewing daily pathology results and act on results. 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, diabetes and 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, community pharmacy and care or nursing homes, as necessary, to ensure the safe transfer of care; Taking a central role in the clinical aspects of shared-care protocols, clinical research with medicines and liaison with specialist pharmacists; 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 practice. About the Candidate You will be a qualified pharmacist with preferably with 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 demonstrate accountability 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 assist patients 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 excellent communication skills; Understand the need for patient confidentiality. About Us Larksfield partnership have a patient population of 19,500 patients across our main site Larksfield and new branch site Arlesey medical centre. Both practices are now under new partnership and a new management team. Our current team consists of 6 salaried GPs with support from regular locums. We have an excellent management and administration team with a highly skilled MDT team including clinical leads, nurse practitioners, clinical pharmacist, paramedic practitioner, practice nursing team and HCAs. We also have additional support from the ARRS roles within the primary care network. We work closely with our primary care network, and other healthcare providers to make sure that care is responsive to the needs of our populations and that primary care is able to adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare landscape.

The partnership encourages and supports staff development throughout our services and works closely with the training hub to ensure staff are aware of development and training opportunities within BLMK. We offer the NHS Pension Scheme (optional), eye-care vouchers and health service discounts.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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