Clinical Pharmacist

1 month ago

Leicester, United Kingdom Victoria Park Health Centre Full time

Job summary

Weare looking for an experienced Clinical Pharmacist, to work under the day to day management of the Lead Pharmacist and with guidance and oversight from GP Practice mentors and clinical leads. To support the practice and patients with your pharmaceutical expertise, to optimise the use of medicines, deliver long term conditions management and support interface communications between primary, secondary and other care settings to deliver improved care and patient outcomes, promoting safety, patient engagement and patient self-management. To do this in a manner that is integrated with the primary health care teams so as to reduce the workload on GPs.

This is a key role,intended to support the delivery of the pharmacist role in primary care ensuringthat we continue to provide high quality, accessible and responsive servicesfor our patients and pharmaceutical advice to our wider healthcare team.

Thesuccessful candidate will have experience working autonomously across a broadrange of clinical areas in general practice.

Main duties of the job

The role will be focused onstable clinical conditions, releasing their GP colleagues to deal with complexor acute illnesses.You will have or develop specialist pharmaceuticalskills and knowledge tailored to local primary care needs that will helppractices deliver on agreed priorities and improve outcomes.

About us

We are a large, dynamic, friendly practice consisting of 4 Partners, 13 Salaried GPs, 6 Clinical Pharmacists, 2 Practice Nurses, 2 HCAs, 1 Phlebotomist & 2 Social Prescribers. We serve 26,000 patients with a focus on clinical excellence and engagement with the modern NHS. Being located adjacent to the University of Leicester we do have a large student population.

We have a very strong team ethos and are looking for a committed and enthusiastic Clinical Pharmacist who can bring their own valuable knowledge and skills to our Practice. We are a teaching Practice with a regular allocation of trainees, we also demonstrate strong performance in QOF, CQC and we play a lead role within our PCN.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The following are the core responsibilities of theClinical Pharmacist. There may be on occasion, a requirement to carry out othertasks.

To work under the day-to-day management of the Lead Pharmacist and withguidance and oversight from GP practice mentors and clinical leads; to supportthe practice and patients with your pharmaceutical expertise, to optimise theuse of medicines, deliver Long Term Conditions management and support interfacecommunications between primary, secondary and other care settings to deliverimproved care and patient outcomes, promoting safety, patient engagement andpatient self-management; to do this in a manner that is integrated with theprimary health care teams so as to reduce the workload on GPs, includingreferrals to community pharmacy for New Medicines Service (NMS) and CommunityPharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS)/Pharmacy First. To undertake level 2 and level 3 reviews of medicines use and applymedicines optimisation principles. To review medication requests and repeatprescriptions and discharge summaries on behalf of the practices, working withGP staff to ensure safe, appropriate systems are operating. To provide pharmaceutical advice and expertise to other prescribers andpractitioners in our practices. To workclosely with the GPs, nurses and other healthcare staff in our practices toresolve day-to-day medicines issues through the application of pharmaceuticalknowledge. To offer patient-facing and person-centred consultations; to manage acaseload of patients within a multidisciplinary general practice team, offeringoutcome-focused medication review and prescribing to manage patients wheremedicines use needs to be optimised , single condition with sub-optimaloutcomes, compliance issues, and/or high-risk medicines and/or high risk orfrail patients. To deliver clinics via patient appointments or as drop-in services;focus on those conditions that are prioritised by the practice, acting inpartnership with practice nurses, GPs and with the other pharmacists in theteam to ensure that specialist and highly specialist skills are used to besteffect for our patients and our practices. To use technology , smart phone apps to enable you to engage andempower patients and their carers, and by doing so scaleup the reach that you,other pharmacists and our practices can have to promote effective self-care andpatient empowerment. To make effective use of information from practice systems , throughsearches and audit, to improve the health of the population, managing resourceseffectively including your own time, to relieve pressure on the practiceworkforce. To provide support and advice for GPs and practice nurses, includingadvanced practitioners on the use of medicines and new medicines andmedicines-use policies , shared care, new pathways of care as new drugs areaccepted for GP prescribing and to support the work of the practice, to developand/or implement new models of care. To work with community pharmacists and local pharmacists to improvemedicines management at the interface, on admission and particularly atdischarge and where high-risk medicines are involved, including shared-careissues acting on behalf of the practice. Person Specification

Experience

Desirable

Proven track record of managing face to face consultations with patients and others. Evidence of working across the interfaces between general practice and providers and social care. Ability to demonstrate good working relations across multidisciplinary teams. Understanding of primary care systems for prescribing and funding to facilitate pathways across health systems. Evidence of personal leadership to improve the quality of care.

Qualifications

Essential

Masters degree in pharmacy and current GPhC registration Evidence of continued professional development relevant to clinical services Relevant underpinning knowledge of general practice and evidence-based medicine Independent Prescriber

Desirable

Membership of RPS or willingness to join

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