At a Glance
- Tasks: Join a multidisciplinary team to optimise patient medication and enhance care quality.
- Company: Friendly and forward-looking PMS practice serving 18,500 patients across multiple sites.
- Benefits: Opportunities for professional development, mentoring, and a supportive work environment.
- Other info: Great career growth potential with a focus on teamwork and patient safety.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in patient care while developing your skills in a dynamic setting.
- Qualifications: Master's in Pharmacy and experience in primary care or pharmacy required.
The predicted salary is between 37338 - 44962 £ per year.
Working within your clinical and professional boundaries in a patient facing role as part of a multidisciplinary team to manage medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing. Perform face-to-face structured medication reviews of patients with polypharmacy; especially for those with frailty and/or with multiple co-morbidities as well as undertaking reviews of patients with specific long term conditions that fall within your competency. Work in partnership with stakeholder organisations to improve the safety and quality of care for patients and manage medicines on transfer of care. Deliver medicines optimisation initiatives within GP practices including the provision of specialist professional pharmaceutical advice and services to ensure the safe and cost effective use of medicines. This will involve work to deliver key medicines optimisation outcomes against a CCG set work plan. Contribute to quality improvement and clinical audit, as well as supporting aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework, medicines safety and antibiotic stewardship. You will also be required to contribute towards practice financial stability through medicines optimisation and related targets in QOF. The postholder will comply with the organisation’s policies and procedures.
Main duties of the job:
- Working within the practice based team to undertake medication reviews particularly in high risk groups such as:
- Poly-pharmacy
- Renal impairment
- Hepatic impairment
- Substance misuse
- Patients on high risk medicines
- Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation).
- Make appropriate recommendations to GPs for medicine improvement.
- Undertake structured medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for nurses and/or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
- This would be a level 3 clinical medication review looking at the patient’s full clinical condition, blood monitoring, interface care arrangements, social isolation etc. including reducing inappropriate polypharmacy and wasteful prescribing.
- Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
About us:
We are a friendly, forward looking and enthusiastic PMS practice of 18,500 patients. The practice has easy access from the A19 and Durham and is based across 6 sites: Wingate, Peterlee, Horden, Wheatley Hill, Thornley and Kelloe. We are a training practice and host GP Registrars at various levels of training and also support with supervision and mentoring of Foundation Doctors, Medical Students and various ARRS roles including Physician Associates, Pharmacists, FCP and other in-house development roles. This will allow a fantastic opportunity for any Pharmacist to flourish and develop in their role and what can be offered to the patients by a Practice Pharmacist.
Job responsibilities:
- Working within the practice based team to undertake medication reviews particularly in high risk groups such as:
- Poly-pharmacy
- Renal impairment
- Hepatic impairment
- Substance misuse
- Patients on high risk medicines
- Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation).
- Make appropriate recommendations to GPs for medicine improvement.
- Undertake structured medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for nurses and/or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
- This would be a level 3 clinical medication review looking at the patient’s full clinical condition, blood monitoring, interface care arrangements, social isolation etc. including reducing inappropriate polypharmacy and wasteful prescribing.
- Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
Person Specification:
- Experience:
- An appreciation of the nature of Primary Care Networks (PCNs), GP practices and general practice.
- An appreciation of the principles of primary care prescribing, rational prescribing, and strategies for improving prescribing.
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrates the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences, including patients.
- Experience of working in primary care, general practice, community pharmacy or hospital pharmacy.
- Experience of undertaking structured medication reviews and medicines optimisation activities.
- Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent).
- Independent Prescriber qualification or working towards / willing to work towards gaining the Independent Prescriber qualification.
- Has completed the CPPE Primary Care Pathway or is willing to work towards completing it.
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
- A member of, or working towards Faculty membership of, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
- Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience.
- 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.
Clinical Pharmacist in Wingate employer: East Durham Medical Group
Join our friendly and forward-looking PMS practice, where you will have the opportunity to thrive in a supportive environment dedicated to patient care. With access to ongoing training and development, including mentoring for GP Registrars and Foundation Doctors, we prioritise employee growth and foster a collaborative work culture across our six sites in the Durham area. Our commitment to quality improvement and medicines optimisation ensures that you will play a vital role in enhancing patient safety and care quality while enjoying a fulfilling career as a Clinical Pharmacist.
