Clinical Pharmacist in Northampton

Do you want to make a real difference to patients' lives every day by ensuring they get the most from their medicines, improving safety, and supporting better health outcomes? We are looking for a full-time Clinical Pharmacist (part-time also considered) to join our highly valued and well-integrated team across Grand Union PCN. Our pharmacists play a vital role in medicines optimisation, working closely with GPs, Pharmacy Technicians, and other healthcare professionals to improve patient outcomes and reduce risks associated with medicines.

Whether you're already experienced in primary care or looking for a new challenge, you'll receive full induction, mentorship, and protected time to develop your skills, including funded access to the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway (PCPEP) and the Independent Prescribing qualification.

Please note: We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Main duties of the job:

• Conduct Structured Medication Reviews (SMRs) for patients with single or multiple medical conditions, identifying and prioritising patients according to clinical risk and contract requirements.
• Review ongoing medicine needs, monitoring requirements, and opportunities for medicines optimisation, making recommendations to clinicians or implementing changes as appropriate.
• Involve patients in decisions about their prescribed medicines and support adherence in line with NICE guidelines.
• Work with care home staff to improve the safety of medicines ordering and administration.
• Provide patient-facing and telephone clinics for those with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines in the practice.
• Respond to medicine-related enquiries from GPs, practice staff, community pharmacies, and other healthcare teams, providing advice, solutions, and follow-up to patients to monitor the effect of any changes.
• Review medicines associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audits and individual patient reviews, implementing changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups.
• Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches.
• Contribute pharmaceutical expertise to the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components, including treatment pathways and patient information leaflets.
• Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.
• Undertake simple audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, provide feedback on the results, and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.
• Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
• Provide education and training to the primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
• Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
• Support public health campaigns and provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the public.

Qualifications:

• Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm)
• Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
• Completion of CPPE PCPEP (or equivalent) pathway, or willingness to undertake this.

Job Circumstances:

• Reliable transportation and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis, including carrying out home visits.
• Possess the legal right to work in the UK and ability to provide appropriate documentation for verification.

Experience:

• Understanding of general practice and primary care prescribing, including rational prescribing strategies for improvement.
• Experience in planning, managing, monitoring, and reviewing medicine optimisation for long-term conditions.
• Ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines, and produce timely, informative reports.
• Proven track record of working independently and collaboratively within a team.

Skills and Knowledge:

• Excellent interpersonal, influencing, negotiation, written, and verbal communication skills, including explaining complex or sensitive information to varied audiences.
• Strong IT skills and ability to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
• Ability to prioritise, problem-solve, recognise deviations, and escalate appropriately.
• Ability to gain acceptance for recommendations and influence others to follow agreed actions.
• Accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.