Clinical pharmacist post with Kettering & South West Rural Primary Care Network, working in the multidisciplinary team at Dryland Surgery, a general practice. The core is patient-facing clinical assessment, structured medication reviews, long-term condition clinics and repeat prescribing. As an independent prescriber, the post also covers care home and housebound visits, telephone triage and out-of-hours work. Applicants need GPhC registration, independent prescribing or working towards it, and three years' post-graduate experience.
What the job involves
- Hold structured face-to-face medication reviews and long-term condition clinics for patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy, making prescribing changes as an independent prescriber
- Manage own caseload and oversee team caseloads, including care home residents and housebound patients at risk of admission
- Manage repeat prescribing reauthorisation, reviewing requests and medicines reaching review dates, and booking monitoring
- Reconcile medicines on discharge from hospital or intermediate care, with post-discharge care plans and follow-up tests
- Carry out care home medication reviews and work with care home staff on medicines ordering and administration
- Perform domiciliary medication reviews, attend multidisciplinary case conferences and formulate care plans
- Identify high-risk patient cohorts through computer searches and risk stratification tools, including risk of unplanned admission
- Telephone triage, referring patients to appropriate clinicians or services, and managing common, minor and self-limiting ailments
- Provide out-of-hours, on-call and extended-service consultations, face to face and by telephone
- Lead medicines safety and quality improvement, clinical audit and QOF prescribing safety work, including acting on MHRA alerts and guidance
- Monitor prescribing against the local RAG list and practice formulary, and support ICB cost-saving and new NICE-based services
- Give medicines information, education and training to colleagues, analyse medicines data, and support public health campaigns and CQC medicines compliance
Qualifications
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
- Independent prescriber qualification, or currently working towards one
- Immunisation status
Registration & licences
- Mandatory General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) registration
Experience
- Minimum of 3 years post-graduate pharmacy experience, shown in a practice portfolio
- Experience of obtaining, analysing and communicating complex information to varied audiences, and of implementing common systems across teams
Skills & knowledge
- In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge, with understanding of evidence-based healthcare
- Understanding of general practice, primary care prescribing and rational prescribing
- Excellent written and verbal communication with a wide range of stakeholders
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
- Good IT skills, including Microsoft Office and web-based database systems
- Knowledge of legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies, including confidentiality, safeguarding and information governance
Checks & eligibility
- DBS reference standards met and a clear criminal record under the law on spent convictions
Other
- Willingness to work flexible hours when required
- Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality, including home visits
- Ability to lead, train and manage staff
Nice to have
- Royal Pharmaceutical Society membership, or working towards Faculty membership
- Primary Care Pharmacy Association (PCPA) membership
- Medicine Management qualification
- Minor Ailments Certificate
- Post-graduate specialist diploma or equivalent training
- Information Governance Toolkit completion
- Basic Life Support training
- Understanding of the implications of working within a newly developing service
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