Clinical Pharmacist - West Barnes Surgery

The West Barnes Surgery has an exciting opportunity for a part-time Clinical Pharmacist to join our dynamic multidisciplinary team. This patient-facing role is to enhance the quality of care for our patients. The successful candidate will be provided with excellent clinical support and an opportunity to develop their primary care skills. We are looking for a motivated, team-orientated individual who shares our enthusiasm for improving patient care. Previous primary care experience is preferred as well as excellent verbal communication skills, a proactive approach and a desire to learn.

As the role develops, you will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex poly-pharmacy. You will also provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. We are welcoming applications from qualified Clinical Pharmacists to join our innovative Primary Care Network (PCN).

Main duties of the job

• Patient facing long term condition clinics
• Carry out consultations with patients with single or multiple medical conditions where medicine optimisation is preferred
• Review the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicine taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines.
• Make appropriate recommendations to GPs for medicines improvement.
• Patient facing clinical medication review
• Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for GPs on prescribing/monitoring.
• Patient facing Care Home Medication Review
• Work with care home staff to improve safety and appropriate medication ordering (medication waste)
• Patient facing domiciliary clinical medication review
• Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conference
• Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments
• Telephone medication support provide telephone support for patients with queries or concerns about their medication
• Management of medications at discharge from hospital to reconcile medications upon discharge from hospitals, immediate care and into care homes including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.
• Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medication supplies to high-risk groups of patients.
• Medicines information to practice staff and patients
• Unplanned hospital admissions
• Repeat Prescribing
• Risk stratification identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches.
• Service Development
• Information management
• Education and Training
• Care Quality Commission
• Public Health
• Collaborative working arrangements

Person Specification

• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Independent prescriber and completion of CPPE preferable but not essential.
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society; Hospital or Primary Care experience; In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
• Minimum of 2 years experience as a pharmacist.
• Good IT Skills.
• Good written and oral communication skills.

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.