Clinical Pharmacist in Truro

Arbennek PCN is looking for an innovative and highly motivated person to join its team as a Clinical Pharmacist. The role, whilst supporting digital initiatives within the Roseland Surgeries PCN & INT, will be vital in ensuring that patients receive the best possible care and service through improving value and outcomes from medicines, consulting with and treating patients directly. This includes providing support to manage long-term conditions, advice for those on multiple medicines and better access to health checks. The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and ensuring patient safety. The role is part time (16hrs) spread between a Tuesday and a Friday.

Main duties of the job

• Supporting GPs: Pharmacists assist GPs with patient care, including managing medications and patient education.
• Medication Reviews: Conducting structured medication reviews for patients with ongoing health problems.
• Patient Safety: Ensuring patient safety and improving outcomes through a person-centered approach.
• Clinical Consultation: Providing clinical advice and treatment for patients.
• Quality Improvement: Contributing to clinical audits and improving the quality of care and services.
• Education and Training: Supporting the education and training of other healthcare professionals.
• Healthcare Access: Helping patients access healthcare services and managing the general practice workload.
• Workload Management: Reducing the workload and waiting times for patients in the practice.

About us

Arbennek PCN is located in the central ICA within the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care System and has approximately 32,453 people registered from 4 GP Practices: Brannel Surgery, Clays Surgery, Probus Surgery and Roseland Surgeries. The post holder will work a majority of their time out of The Roseland Surgeries.

We will be holding interviews for shortlisted candidates on 30.06.26. Our default position for a selection/assessment interview is face to face. The interview date and venue are communicated within our Job Advertisement to ensure that candidates can adequately plan attendance if invited for interview. We welcome and invite any requests for adjustments in the selection process, in particular for any needs connected with disability, and/or language. We ask that any adjustments are requested in good time so that they can be considered and properly planned for. We may agree to a virtual meeting as a reasonable adjustment for disability.

Job responsibilities

Purpose of the role

Having Clinical Pharmacists in GP practices means that GPs can focus their skills where they are most needed, for example on diagnosing and treating patients with more complex conditions. This helps GPs to manage the demands on their time. Clinical GP Pharmacists work as a key part of the primary care network (PCN) multi-disciplinary team to improve value and outcomes from medicines and consult with and treat patients directly. This includes providing extra help to manage long-term conditions, advice for those on multiple medicines and better access to health checks. The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and ensuring patient safety.

Key Responsibilities

• Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients with the purpose of optimising drug therapy, reducing polypharmacy, minimising waste and adherence to formulary.
• Long term condition reviews, these will take place both face to face and via telephone, where the intention is to optimise medical care for a patient with a long term condition (e.g. hypertension).
• Frailty reviews, to provide medications reviews for those individuals identified as being frail and where medicines de-optimisation may be appropriate.
• Participate in joint reviews where identified with other members of the MDT, to provide prescribing and drug related advice.
• Management of common / self-limiting illness, to provide advice and review of those patients with a common or self-limiting illness.
• Administration of vaccinations, where appropriate training has been completed.
• Assist with the development and review of any practice policies and procedures, particularly those involving prescribing and the supply of medicines.
• Medicines reconciliation of medicines between care settings.
• Recognise own limitations and to be able to refer to seniors or more appropriate colleague(s) when needed.
• Encourage and signpost to alternative resources where possible.
• Telephone enquiries. To deal with general telephone enquiries from patients and the wider MDT.
• Medicines administration, to deal with the reauthorisation, monitoring and appropriate prescribing of repeat and acute medications.
• To be a point of advice within the MDT for medicines related queries.
• Facilitate and participate in MDT meetings and training particularly those involving prescribing or drug administration.
• New patients, to review and set up new patients to practice, where needed optimising medications, or changing to formulary choices.
• To actively improve medication safety within the practice to minimise patient harm from any prescribed medications.
• Medications safety, to action any drug alerts or safety recalls in a timely manner.
• Care home reviews, as identified to complete care home medication reviews as required.
• To attend and participate in practice, local and national level meetings and training as identified by the individual practices.
• To work with the practice to ensure that local and national standards are met.
• Be actively involved in the development and training of the MDT on medicines related issues.
• To support any public health campaigns.
• To be involved in the management, analysis and allocation of prescribing budgets.
• To analyse, interpret and present medicines related data to influence prescribing decisions.
• Develop strong MDT working relationships within the practice environment.
• To develop and build strong working relationships with community pharmacy colleagues.
• To work with the ICB prescribing team to optimise cost effective prescribing.
• Good verbal and written communication skills to a variety of individuals including the MDT, patients, carers and system leaders.
• Work with your supervising Pharmacist/Mentor to undertake continual personal and professional development.
• Adhere to organisational policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, equality, diversity and inclusion training and health and safety.
• To feedback at practice level any prescribing issues, alerts or messages.
• Responsibility for supervising, teaching and mentoring junior pharmacy staff, technicians or support staff.
• The individual should be a car driver and be able to travel between sites or care settings.
• Be able to use VDU for a large proportion of the day.
• Be able to deal with complaints or concerns regarding prescribing, medicines administration or supply.
• Be able to manage a complex and changing workload, often working under pressure and time restrictions.
• You should be able to organise and delegate workload as necessary utilising the MDT to ensure the smooth process and flow of work.
• Individuals should be registered with the GPhC, having successfully completed the pre-registration qualification and be committed to ongoing continuing professional development.
• Work as part of the healthcare team to seek feedback, continually improve the service and contribute to business planning.
• Contribute to the development of policies and plans relating to equality, diversity and health inequalities.
• Undertake any tasks consistent with the level of the post and the scope of the role, ensuring that work is delivered in a timely and effective manner.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Ongoing CPD
• One years pre-registration training
• Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
• Registration with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RSPGB)
• A member or working towards faculty membership of RSPGB
• Post graduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
• Independent Prescriber Qualification or working towards
• Safeguarding adults and children level 2 / 3

Experience

• Experience working within the NHS either in Primary Care, Hospital or Community Pharmacy
• Experience of sole working
• Experience as working as part of a team
• Experience working in GP.
• Completion of Audit
• Providing medicines information advice
• Experience of a patient facing role
• Management experience managing a team
• Teaching experience

Knowledge & Skills

• Basic clinical skills providing patient assessment
• Excellent written and oral skills
• Ability to organise and to prioritise workload
• Work to high levels of practice, maintaining concentration
• Ability to use VDU equipment for a large proportion of the day
• Flexibility with regards to working hours
• Full driving licence
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to prioritise
• Awareness of own limitations
• Able to work as part of a team
• Flexible
• Self motivated
• Adaptable
• Accountability
• Professionalism
• Ability to manage own time
• Ability to work autonomously
• Ability to instigate change
• Ability to co-ordinate, influence and change others
• Ability to undertake vaccination administration

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.