Clinical Pharmacist in Wigan

An exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic Clinical Pharmacist has arisen to join our team. The working hours for this position are full time, flexible. This position will support our clinical teams dealing with day-to-day acute conditions alongside medication management including post discharge synchronisation, medication reviews and repeat prescribing. We are looking for an individual who has excellent communication skills and adaptability to the ever-changing NHS. We will provide a friendly and supportive environment to work in alongside development and training. You will work alongside our existing clinical pharmacists supporting our practices with medicines management.

Main duties of the job:

• Clinical medication management and optimisation
• Acute and minor ailment clinics within the candidate's competency framework
• Deal with incoming hospital discharges and third-party letters
• Repeat prescribing
• Supporting with QOF work
• Medicine safety and quality audits
• Care Quality Commission work
• Contractual target-based work
• Deal with medicine related queries

The successful applicant will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management, provide face to face and telephone structured medication reviews, manage long-term conditions, ensure systems for safe prescribing, addressing public health and social care needs of patients at the practice. The post-holder will perform review of patients with polypharmacy especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities.

This role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation to deliver an excellent service within general practice.

Responsibilities include:

• Provide proactive leadership on medicines and prescribing systems to the multidisciplinary team, patients and their carers.
• Understand the pharmacy role in governance and be able to implement this appropriately within the workplace.
• Maximise the use of technology and management systems to provide management of safety, risk and information.
• Focusing on prevention of illness and personalised care, and supporting patients to make informed decisions about their care and look after their own health, by connecting them with the full range of statutory and voluntary services.
• Deliver training and inform of prescribing updates, mentoring and guidance to other clinicians and staff on medicine issues.
• Support the practices in improving the health of their patients through the rational and safe use of medicines.
• Undertake responsibility for areas of QoF and Quality Contract and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.
• Co-ordinate and lead meetings ensuring key performance indicators are identified and plans for achievement shared.
• Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
• Provide advice for the GP management of more complex patients / polypharmacy patients.
• Report medicines related incidents, contribute to investigations and root cause analyses.
• Participate in serious incident investigations and multidisciplinary case reviews.
• Computer data entry/data allocation and collation, processing and recording information in accordance with practice procedures.
• Initiating contact with and responding to requests from patients, other team members and associated healthcare professionals and providers.
• Participate in the primary care network MDT liaising with key stakeholders to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.

Person Specification:

Experience:

• Essential: Experience of working within primary care, ability to manage and prioritise workload, proven ability to work autonomously and as part of a team, demonstrates understanding of the implications of local and national priorities for the practice and its population, good communication and record keeping skills, experience in using I.T based patient documentation systems, able to professionally and appropriately challenge differing opinions as a patient advocate.
• Desirable: Experience of clinical audit and research projects, commitment to reducing health inequalities and proactively working with people from all communities.

Qualifications:

• Essential: Degree in pharmacy with post graduate experience in pharmacy, medical prescriber, have completed CPPE-commissioned training pathway, evidence of continued professional development, registered with the General Pharmaceutical Committee, member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
• Desirable: Experience of Microsoft Office applications, experience of EMIS, able to promote a learning environment.

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.