Clinical Pharmacist - Dryland Surgery in Kettering

We are looking for a clinical pharmacist to work in a patient facing role as part of a General Practice multi-disciplinary team, to clinically assess and treat patients at Dryland Surgery, undertake administrative processes, and provide expertise in clinical medicines management. This will include working as an independent prescriber, cost-effective prescribing, face to face structured medication reviews, management of long term conditions, management of medicines on transfer of care, systems for safer prescribing, management of repeat prescription authorisations/reauthorisation, acute prescription request, providing advice and support to patients and colleagues, and public health and social care needs of patients.

Lead on quality improvement and clinical audit, manage aspects of the QOF and enhanced services. Ensure integration and collaboration with community and hospital pharmacy, utilising skill mix, improving patient outcomes, ensuring better access to healthcare. The role is available between 2 to 5 days per week (15.0 - 37.5 hrs pw).

Main duties of the job

• Qualified (MPharm) Independent Prescriber, registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team, taking a holistic view of patients needs, providing expert medicines advice and clinical pharmacy medicines provision, identifying and implementing prescribing changes, and referring and signposting to other services and/or health and social care professionals.
• Provide patient facing medicine support and review.
• Identify high risk patient cohorts and undertake risk stratification using a variety of computer based tools.
• Manage your own case-load, and run multi-morbidity and long-term condition clinics, undertaking medicine optimisation; care home residents with multi-morbidity and polypharmacy; domiciliary vulnerable housebound patients at risk of hospital admission; common/minor/self-limiting ailments.
• Develop and implement prescribing, medicines safety and quality improvement policies and procedures.
• Undertake telephone triage and refer patients to appropriate clinicians.
• Provide out of hours/on call/extended services for patients including patient facing and telephone consultations.
• Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight risk and support decision making.
• Provide information, education, guidance and training to colleagues and other practice staff on therapeutics and medicines.

About us

Dryland Surgery is a General Practice in the heart of Kettering, providing primary care for 12000 service users. We offer the opportunity to work within a close working, dynamic team and the scope to provide a service that is personalised, co-ordinated and integrated with other services. We are committed to providing excellent patient services, presenting different opportunities to make an impact and develop new ways of working in an exciting, fast paced work environment.

Person Specification

Experience

• Minimum of 3 years post graduate experience in pharmacy (width and depth), as demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
• An understanding of the nature of GPs and general practices.
• Has an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general practice.
• An understanding of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
• Experience of obtaining, analysing and communicating routine and complex, technical and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients, colleagues).
• Experience of developing and implementing common systems and processes across teams and across service boundaries.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with and gain the co-operation of a wide variety of stakeholders (e.g. patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, including those from different disciplines and external organisations/sectors).
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
• Good IT skills, including the ability to use Microsoft Office applications and digital and web-based database systems.
• Knowledge of and ability to work to legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies and procedures and codes of conduct, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and health and safety.

Personal Qualities, Abilities and Attributes

• Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise, deliver and review general pharmaceutical care programmes for patients and medicine optimisation issues in core areas including disease states/long-term conditions.
• Ability to recognise priorities when problem solving and identify deviations from the normal pattern and refer to GPs, other senior staff where appropriate.
• Ability to plan and manage multiple workload priorities, work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Ability to manage, monitor, support and train staff.
• Ability to gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply when there may be significant barriers.
• Ability to involve patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and support adherence as per NICE guidelines.
• Ability to work effectively and flexibly within a team, leading a team and on own initiative.
• Able to demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
• Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions.
• Willingness to work flexible hours when required to meet work demands.
• Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis, including visiting people in their own homes.

Qualifications

• Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Masters Degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent.
• Independent Prescriber, or currently working towards an independent prescribing qualification.
• Immunisation Status.

Other

• Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions.
• Willingness to work flexible hours when required to meet work demands.
• Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis, including visiting people in their own homes.