Clinical Pharmacist in Liverpool

Welcome to FCMS! The Clinical Pharmacist will work within our Special Allocation Service, which is a GP practice for difficult-to-doctor patients and those with complex needs. We are seeking a proactive and patient-focused Clinical Pharmacist to join Compass Medical Practice as a valued member of our multidisciplinary clinical team. The post holder will play a key role in optimising medicine use, improving patient safety, and supporting high-quality prescribing across the practice.

Day to Day Duties include:

• Conduct structured medication reviews with a focus on patients with complex needs, polypharmacy, frailty and long-term conditions.
• Lead and support deprescribing where appropriate, in line with national and local guidance.
• Optimise medicines to improve patient outcome, safety and adherence.
• Provide clinical advice to GPs, ACPS, Nurses and other members of the Clinical Team regarding prescribing and medicines management.
• Respond to medicines-related queries from patients and clinicians.
• Develop and encourage positive working relationships with local GP Practices, housing, social work, voluntary services, drug and alcohol, mental health, dental, secondary care and other appropriate services.
• Keep contemporaneous, accurate and legible records of all patient contacts and contribute to electronic data recording and audit as directed by the service.

Prescribing & Medicines Management:

• Work closely with the prescription clerk to ensure safe, accurate, and timely processing of prescriptions.
• Support repeat prescribing systems and processes.
• Identify and resolve prescribing issues, including high-risk medications.
• Contribute to medicines reconciliation when required.

Audit, Quality & Governance:

• Undertake and contribute to prescribing audits and quality improvement projects.
• Support achievement of QoF and other contractual requirements related to medicines optimisation.
• Ensure prescribing aligns with local formularies, NICE guidance and best practice.

Professional:

• Ensure full accreditation and requirements of practice to include full registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice.
• Maintain high standards of cleanliness and hygiene at all times.
• Work within the boundaries of your relevant professional Code of Conduct.

Teamworking & Service Development:

• Act as a valuable and collaborative member of the clinical team.
• Participate in multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings where appropriate.
• Support education and training of staff in relation to medicines and prescribing.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of pharmacy services within the practice.

Communication and working relationships:

• Communicates effectively with other team members.
• Communicates effectively with patients and carers.
• Communicates effectively with other healthcare professionals.
• Take all appropriate steps to minimise conflict.

Most challenging part of the role:

• Ability to work under pressure in an ever-changing, challenging specialist environment whilst maintaining excellent standards of patient care.
• Dealing with difficult situations and people by demonstrating and exercising critical thinking skills when faced with incomplete or lack of information or complexity.
• Manage patient and public expectations of the service within set national targets and time constraints.
• Manage effective change and development within clinical areas, maintaining highly specialised knowledge and competences.

Our key expectations are:

• Self-awareness
• Living authentically
• Adaptability - Being ready to adjust depending on the situation
• Openness - What you see is what you get
• Positivity with a real sense of being able to strive for the impossible
• Generosity of spirit - Every day should be an opportunity to act with kindness
• Ability to have fun - Taking the role seriously, whilst being yourself

Values: Our organisational culture is very important to us, so it is vital that the successful candidate lives and breathes complimentary values and behaviours.

Person Specification:

• Essential Experience: Experience working in primary care, general practice; Strong knowledge and understanding of medicine optimisation, polypharmacy and deprescribing; Experience undertaking structured medication reviews.
• Desirable Experience: Experience of prescribing audits and quality improvement work.
• Essential Qualifications: Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC); Relevant professional Qualification; Experience of working independently as an unsupervised practitioner in primary care; Independent Prescriber.
• Desirable Qualifications: Experience in Primary Care; Experience working in Inclusion Health / Multiple disadvantage.
• Essential Personal Qualities: Demonstrate the ability to work in highly demanding environments; Evidence of diplomacy and negotiation skills; Able to demonstrate imaginative and effective use of resources; Able to articulate personal development needs; Implementation of audit/research recommendations; Excellent communication and leadership skills; Competent in use of IT packages such as Microsoft Word and PowerPoint; Knowledge of current clinical and professional issues.
• Desirable Personal Qualities: Experience of working with clinical IT systems including EMIS, Patchs, Docman, Ardens; Willing to try new IT systems in the future for consultations.

Specific Job Requirements:

• Essential: Remaining calm under pressure; Able to manage varying workloads; High emotional intelligence.
• Other: Self-motivated; Authentic Professional Manner; Trauma Informed Practice.

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.