Advanced Practice Pharmacist in Bradford

We are seeking an experienced Advanced Practice Pharmacist to join our expanding multidisciplinary team to lead the development and delivery of our new in-house pharmacy service at Hollyns Health & Wellbeing. This is an exciting opportunity to shape an innovative, patient-centred service that supports high-quality, integrated primary care and improves health outcomes for our local population.

Working as an autonomous clinician within the MDT, you will provide expert pharmaceutical care across a broad range of clinical areas. You will undertake complex structured medication reviews, optimise prescribing, and promote the safe, and cost-effective use of medicines in line with national and local guidance.

As the clinical lead for the pharmacy service, lead quality improvement initiatives, clinical audit, and service evaluation, using data to inform practice and improve patient safety and outcomes. You will play a key role in developing new clinical pathways, implementing evidence-based practice, and supporting the strategic development of pharmacy services within the practice.

This role is ideal for an experienced independent prescriber with advanced clinical assessment skills, excellent leadership and communication abilities, and a passion for service development. The successful candidate will be committed to delivering high-quality, patient-centred care while driving continuous improvement and supporting the future growth of an innovative in-house pharmacy service.

Main duties of the job include:

• Managing the daily work of our in-house pharmacy service, working alongside a Clinical Pharmacist; supported by the medicines management lead.
• Working closely with GPs, Clinicians and other practice staff and members of the primary healthcare team in developing your own skills to manage patient care and support high quality, safe, cost effective, rational, and evidence-based prescribing.
• Demonstrating safe, clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills, for patients within the general practice.
• Providing professional leadership, clinical supervision, and mentorship to our clinical pharmacist, fostering a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and excellence.
• Working collaboratively with the general practice team to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures.

About us: Hollyns Health and Wellbeing is a proactive practice with two sites, who offer additional services to the practice population, such as warfarin, pain management, sexual health, Level 2 diabetic clinics and minor surgery. Teamwork is integral in ensuring the service is run as effectively and efficiently for the patients as possible.

The successful candidate will be able to continue their service benefits if coming from the NHS in relation to the NHS Pension Scheme and annual leave entitlement. The Surgery has approximately 12,300 patients.

Key Duties & Responsibilities include:

• Medication reviews, computer based or telephone calls for more complex patients, first source of information for patients about medication.
• Medication and treatment reconciliation systems for patients transferred out of and back into the practice, assess unplanned admissions and systems to prevent further unplanned admissions.
• Maintaining practice formularies.
• Ensuring data connectivity and proactive organisation to deliver maximum QOF for the practice. Regular QOF audits.
• Improving risk stratification of pathways and improving service delivery.
• Medicine management e.g. polypharmacy.
• Medicines optimisation, supporting joint goal setting with patients and appropriate treatment selection to support better medicines experience.
• Reducing waste and improving outcomes.
• Monitoring of long-term medications e.g. lithium, amiodarone, shared care medications and blood results.
• Monitoring and managing repeat prescription wastage including patient adherence.
• Optimising medication/titration e.g. HF.
• Leading and participating in Quality Improvement (QI) initiatives and clinical audits to enhance patient care, medication safety, and service delivery.
• Providing supervision, guidance, and mentorship to the clinical pharmacists, supporting their clinical development, competency, and professional growth.
• Acting as a clinical mentor and preceptor for clinical pharmacists, fostering a collaborative learning environment and promoting best practice in patient care.
• Supporting the orientation, training, and ongoing development of junior pharmacists through regular coaching, feedback, and clinical supervision.
• Working with clinical team members on long-term conditions (Diabetes, Asthma, COPD, Depression, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Hypertension, Arthritis, Pain, Heart Failure, Shared care drug monitoring).
• Managing patients with more complex long-term conditions such as difficult hypertension, compliance with lipid-lowering therapy.
• Assessing and issuing day to day acute medication requests as appropriate.
• Addressing day to day medication queries.
• Undertaking repeat medication reviews and reauthorisation as appropriate.
• Reviewing and loading repeat medication for new patient registrations.
• Identifying and supporting patients where concordance issues arise.
• Liaising with community pharmacists to solve common day to day prescribing problems.
• Liaising with community nurses and preparing MARS sheets as needed.
• Responsibility for lithium and antipsychotic drug monitoring and review of blood results.
• Reviewing the prescribing for patients with multi-morbidity and polypharmacy.
• Reporting and following up patient drug safety/adverse reactions.
• Supporting patient self-care and medicines management and concordance through education.
• Supporting staff education and development.
• Supporting development of local services to improve workflow within the practice.
• Seeing and advising patients presenting with minor ailments as appropriate to skills and competences.
• Working with the team to implement and maintain Practice formulary in the longer term.
• Delivering specific disease management clinic through personal development and independent prescribing.

Person Specification:

• Experience: Essential - Have experience and an awareness of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
• Qualifications: Essential - To hold an MSc Advanced Clinical Practice with four-pillar advanced practice competencies and V300 Independent Prescribing.

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 to check for any previous criminal convictions. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.