Clinical Pharmacist in Campbeltown

To optimise medicines management processes and achieve highly effective, safe, patient-centred prescribing within a defined locality across a number of surgeries. The Practice Pharmacist will be expected to work autonomously, but with the support of the multi-professional primary care team.

Within the team, the Practice Pharmacist will focus on developing medicines optimisation services across the locality. This involves running processes for repeat prescription reauthorisation, management of medicines on transfer of care and developing systems for safer prescribing. The Practice Pharmacist will carry out medication reviews for patients with polypharmacy - especially for older people, people resident in care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities/long-term conditions.

The Practice Pharmacist will provide leadership on quality improvement and clinical audit, as well as managing some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework. By working across surgeries, there is the opportunity to share ideas and examples of good practice. Time will be split proportionately, depending on the surgery's list size, and work will vary depending on the needs of the practice.

Main duties of the job:

• To maintain registration as a pharmacist and comply with appropriate professional codes.
• To plan and organise own workload, including audit, project work, and provide training sessions for other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Maintain and develop professional competence and expertise, keep up to date with medical/therapeutic evidence and opinion, and local and national service, legislation and policy developments.
• To develop and facilitate good working relationships with community pharmacists and other stakeholders.
• Attend local, regional and national meetings of relevance.
• Undertake any other duties commensurate with the post holder's grade as agreed with the locality and/or practice lead GPs.
• All employees should understand that it is their personal responsibility to comply with all organisational and statutory requirements (e.g. health and safety, equal treatment and diversity, confidentiality and clinical governance).

About us:

Southend Coastal Surgeries is dedicated to delivering excellence in healthcare through its two branches, strategically located across Thorpe Bay and North Shoebury Surgery. We also manage Westcliff Medical Centre. We provide a wide range of NHS primary care services, striving to deliver the highest standards of medical and personal care. Your treatment is always delivered in a clinically effective manner by the most appropriate healthcare professional. We aim to offer an effective, efficient, and fair healthcare service to all our patients by:

• Placing our patients at the centre of everything we do.
• Employing a professional, integrated primary healthcare team that is suitably qualified and trained.
• Providing our services in a safe, supportive, and well-equipped environment.

Job responsibilities:

• Management of medicines after discharge from hospital.
• Risk stratification.
• Unplanned hospital admissions.
• Repeat prescribing.
• Patient facing medicines support.
• Care home medication reviews.
• Long term condition clinics.
• Service development.
• Care Quality Commission compliance.
• Cost saving programmes.
• Medicine information to practice staff and patients.
• Medicines quality improvement.
• Training & Shared Learning.

Person Specification:

• Essential: Self-motivation & Initiative, Adaptable.
• Desirable: Full driving licence & access to car to travel.

Qualifications:

• Essential: Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Desirable: Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm), Clinical diploma, Clinical assessment skills, Independent prescriber.

Experience:

• Essential: In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare. An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices. An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing. Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences e.g. patients. Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions. Good Microsoft Office skills. Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information. Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the seniors or GPs when appropriate. Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines. Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers. Work effectively independently and as a team member. Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
• Desirable: None.

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.

UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration.