Clinical Pharmacist in Swadlincote

Main duties of the job:

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role.
• Take responsibility for chronic disease management and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy, especially older people, those in residential care homes and individuals with multiple co-morbidities.
• Provide primary support to general practice staff with prescription and medication queries, support repeat prescriptions, manage acute prescription requests, perform medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and contribute to systems for safer prescribing while delivering clinical medicines advice.
• Involved with medicines optimisation, quality improvement and manage aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
• Ensure the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload.

Job responsibilities:

The job description is intended to provide an outline of the key tasks and responsibilities only. There may be other duties required of the post-holder commensurate with the position. This description will be open to regular review and may be amended to take into account development within the practice. All members of staff should be prepared to take on additional duties or relinquish existing duties in order to maintain the efficient running of the practice.

Qualifications:

• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• A member of working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Other:

• Self-motivation
• Adaptable
• Full Driving Licence
• DBS
• Immunisation status
• Mandatory Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

Experience:

• 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.
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
• Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Produce timely and informative reports.
• Gain acceptance from recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers.
• Works effectively independently and as a team member.
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.

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.