Clinical Pharmacist in Great Yarmouth

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2 x Permanent - 37.5 hours per week

Salary: Dependent on Experience

You will receive full support to work towards achieving your prescribing qualification.

About the Practice

Millwood Surgery is a well-established GP practice serving approximately 19,800 registered patients. Our multidisciplinary team includes 8 salaried GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, a dedicated pharmacy team, and an in-house home visiting team, supported by experienced nurses, healthcare assistants, and administrative staff. We also work closely with colleagues within our Primary Care Network (PCN), providing additional support from a wider multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality, patient‑centred care.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is a pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, working alongside a team of pharmacists in general practice and within the Primary Care Network. They will improve patients' health outcomes and the efficiency of the Primary Care team by providing direct, accessible and timely medicines expertise including face‑to‑face contact with patients. They will work to optimise medication issues to improve patient care, safety and support clinical staff in the management of patients. The post holder will be an integral part of the General Practice team, working in one or more practices across the Primary Care Network, as well as part of a wider pharmacist network and multidisciplinary team. This includes being a conduit of patient medicines information into and out of Acute General Hospitals.

About us

Norfolk Primary Care Ltd is a Community Interest Company. It was established to:

• Support and strengthen primary care and to promote and assist practices to improve quality by working with and on behalf of primary care in Norfolk.
• Help with challenges identified by practices workload, GP recruitment, sharing best practice.
• Recognise the changing nature of primary care and assist to ensure that the right level of service is provided to address the needs of the local population.
• Provide benefit to patients of primary care, the clinicians and administrators who work in it and practice organisations in Norfolk.
• Work within health systems to provide patient care in innovative and solution‑focused ways.

We offer successful candidates a supportive working environment, competitive salary, excellent working conditions and the benefits of the NHS pension scheme. Other benefits include access to NHS discounts and discounted First Bus travel. If you are interested in working in an organisation committed to a culture of professionalism, growth, integrity, positivity and kindness then we would love to hear from you.

Job responsibilities

• Work as part of a multi‑disciplinary team in a patient‑facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
• Provide pharmaceutical consultations to patients with long‑term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team.
• Provide proactive leadership on medicines and prescribing systems to the PCN multidisciplinary team, patients and their carers.
• Improve patient and carer understanding of, confidence in and compliance with their medication.
• Provide advice and answer medication related queries from patients and staff.
• Organise and oversee the PCN's medicines optimisation systems including repeat prescribing and medication review systems.
• Work in partnership with pharmacists and clinicians in Acute General Hospitals, to improve the safety and quality of prescribing after discharge from hospital admissions and attendance.
• Improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education to improve performance against NICE standards, and clinical and prescribing guidance.
• Develop yourself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training and service redesign activities.
• Contribute to a patient safety culture through reporting and investigation of medicines incidents and undertaking proactive measures to improve patient safety.
• Work with community pharmacists, hospital pharmacists, and other stakeholders in the medicines supply chain to improve patient experience and manage incidents.
• Deliver training, mentoring and guidance to other clinicians and staff on medicine issues.
• Provide leadership within the pharmacy team and offer supervision to pharmacy technicians within the team if appropriate.

Core competencies

• Manage a caseload of complex patients and potential care institutions.
• Provide advice for the GP management of more complex patients or areas such as addictive behaviours, severe mental illness or end‑of‑life care.
• Develop a specialist area of interest.
• Conduct medication reviews and agree medicines care plans in agreement with patients and carers.
• Deliver long‑term conditions clinics and home visits, particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes and prescribe accordingly.
• Consult patients for acute illnesses within defined levels of competence and independently prescribe medication.
• Prescribe acute and repeat medication for patient need within areas of competency.
• Receive referrals and direct patients from triage services and other clinicians.
• Provide targeted support and proactive review for vulnerable, complex patients and those at risk of admission and re‑admission to secondary care.
• Receive and resolve medicines queries from patients and other staff.
• Contribute to public health campaigns (e.g. flu clinics) through advice or direct care.
• Provide specific advice and support to patients in care homes and support staff.
• Provide help and advice on medicines use to patients and their carers.
• Promote self‑management and develop patient support systems.
• Manage therapeutic drug monitoring system and recall of patients taking high‑risk drugs i.e. anticoagulants, anticonvulsants and DMARDs, etc.
• Support virtual and remote models of consultation and support including e‑consultations, remote medication review and telehealth and telemedicine.
• Investigate and feedback on examples of best practice and formulate how to apply these.
• Work with other Clinical Pharmacists to review overall efficiency of PCN arrangements; reduce duplication and suggest improvements in use of skills.
• Organise and oversee repeat prescribing, repeat dispensing, electronic prescribing and medication review systems.
• Provide leadership and support to prescription administrative/dispensary staff.
• Handle prescription queries and requests directly.
• Oversee system for reconciliation of medicines from outpatient and discharge letters and support safe transfer of care through liaison with hospital and community colleagues.
• Liaise with other stakeholders in the supply chain such as community pharmacists and appliance contractors to handle queries and manage supply problems.
• Support delivery of QOF, incentive schemes, QIPP and other quality or cost‑effectiveness initiatives.
• Agree and review Prescribing Formularies and Protocols and monitor compliance levels.
• Improve the data quality of medicines records and linking to conditions.

Safety

• Report medicines‑related incidents, contribute to investigations and root‑cause analyses.
• Participate in serious incident investigations and multidisciplinary case reviews.
• Report adverse drug reactions and promote reporting by MDT.
• Oversee use and monitoring of high‑risk drugs and drugs of abuse.
• Action and response to drug safety alerts and other safety cascades.

Person Specification

• Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information effectively with people at all levels by telephone, email and face‑to‑face.
• Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct.
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiation skills, organisational skills with the ability to constructively challenge the view and practices of managers and clinicians.
• Ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Ability to use own initiative, discretion and sensitivity.
• Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long‑term conditions.
• Full driving licence.

• Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Hold or be working towards an independent prescribing qualification.
• Self‑development through continuous professional development activity.
• CPPE / PCPEP completed or in progress of completing.
• Participation in the delivery of a formal education programme.
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
• A member of or working towards faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

• Minimum of 2 years experience as a pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice.
• An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practice.
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
• Experience and an awareness of common acute and long‑term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
• An appreciation of the new NHS landscape including the relationship between individual providers, PCNs and commissioners.
• Understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and service.
• In‑depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence‑based healthcare.
• Understanding of the mentorship process.

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.