Clinical Pharmacist in Baildon

The post holder is a pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacists and technicians in general practice. In this role they will be supported daily by a clinical team that includes an advanced clinical practitioner pharmacist. There is a clinical lead who will develop, manage and mentor them. The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role and will be a prescriber. The role is predominantly about prescription management, medication reviews, building relationships with stakeholders and implementing safe and effective working practices. There will also be the opportunity to mentor and develop less experienced colleagues.

Main duties of the job

• You will take responsibility for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes and those with multiple long-term conditions.
• You will support the management of the practice’s repeat and acute prescription management processes, as part of The Prescribing Team.
• You will review medication requests, issuing and arranging the necessary reviews as needed.
• You will work to improve communication about medication-related issues between the practice and other care providers.
• You will develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across PCNs and the wider health and social care system.

About us

We are Affinity Care Primary Care Network covering a population of over 64,000 patients over 7 GP practices and 8 sites, all in the Bradford area. Our ethos is to provide patient focused care based on the model of GP-led family‑oriented general practice tailored to local population needs. Our practices are highly accredited training practices, level 3 research‑ready sites within an embedded ethos of our learning organisation. We are a friendly enthusiastic and hard working team with opportunities for career progression and will provide support and development for anyone demonstrating capability, enthusiasm, commitment and strong work ethic.

Benefits include:

• 5 weeks annual leave (pro rata for part time hours)
• Birthday Holiday

Job responsibilities

• As a more experienced Pharmacist you will provide mentoring, training and development for more junior colleagues.
• To ensure implementation of safe and efficient repeat prescribing systems.
• You will be part of a professional clinical network and will have access to appropriate clinical supervision as outlined in the Network Contract DES guidance where appropriate.
• You will support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self‑care.
• In your leadership role you will be supporting further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload.

Health and Safety / Risk Management

The jobholder must comply at all times with the practice’s Health and Safety policies, in particular by following agreed safe working procedures and reporting incidents using the practice’s Risk Incident Reporting System.

Equality and Diversity

The jobholder must co‑operate with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment. Co‑workers, patients and visitors must be treated equally irrespective of gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion, etc.

Patient Confidentiality and Ensuring Dignity and Respect of Patients

The jobholder should respect patient confidentiality at all times and not divulge patient information unless sanctioned by the requirements of the role. This includes written and verbally communicated information. The job holder should at all times treat patients with dignity and respect and actively seek to assure an environment that facilitates this.

Communication & Working Relationships

To be responsible for one's own behaviour to effectively create a working environment that has a good team spirit, is professional in orientation and has mutual respect amongst colleagues. Establishing and maintaining effective communication and constructive input to areas of service development and systems re‑design.

Special Working Conditions

You may also be asked from time to time to be flexible in your working hours as per the needs of the practice.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Skills

• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
• In‑depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding the principles of evidence‑based healthcare.

Qualifications

• Master of Pharmacy Degree
• GPhC registration

Experience

• Minimum of 3‑5 years experience working as a Pharmacist within General Practice

Qualities/Attributes

• Able to obtain, analyse and interpret complex technical information.
• Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
• Good communication skills: written, verbal and listening.
• Ability to work on own initiative and prioritise workload.
• Trustworthy and an understanding, acceptance and adherence to the need for strict confidentiality.
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
• Commitment to continuing professional development and training.
• Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate and gain agreement on course of action where they may be significant barriers.
• Excellent team working skills.
• Competent with the use of IT.
• Able to work under pressure to meet deadlines.

Working hours

Monday - Friday 10:00 - 6:00pm.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.