Clinical Pharmacist in Burton upon Trent

We are seeking a third enthusiastic Practice Pharmacist to join our well-established, patient-focused and hardworking clinical team. You will be working alongside experienced GPs, supported by two ANPs and an established Practice Pharmacist Team, in a friendly and collaborative environment. Wetmore Road Surgery is a busy urban practice serving approximately 12,500 patients. As a Training Practice, we are committed to supporting learning and professional development and actively encourage training opportunities for all members of our team. We also welcome new ideas and innovative ways of working. We are looking for a team player with enthusiasm and a genuine desire to make a difference in primary care. Previous experience working within a GP practice is desirable; however, we will also consider applications from pharmacists outside of General Practice. Support to complete the CPPE pathway can be provided for the right candidate if required.

The main purpose of the role is to deliver clinical pharmacy support to Wetmore Road Surgery through management and interventions of your own patient caseload. You will work as part of the general practice team to resolve day-to-day medicine issues and deliver direct patient care. This includes managing long-term conditions, specific advice for those on multiple medications and better access to health checks.

Key Responsibilities:

• To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.
• Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review.
• Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).
• Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches.
• Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews.
• Update and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy.
• Undertake Clinical Medication Reviews and Structured Medication Reviews with patients.
• Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
• Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components.
• Work with the Practice Manager and GPs to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
• Contribute to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, and adult immunisation programmes.
• Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
• Monitor practice prescribing against the GMMMG RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors or subject to shared care.
• Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

Communication:

• Demonstrate sensitive communication styles to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication.
• Anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve communication.

Delivering a Quality Service:

• Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct.
• Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation.
• Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality.
• Participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the practice.

Learning and Development:

• Act as mentor for more junior staff and students.
• Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members.
• Assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate.

Qualifications:

• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Masters Degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent.
• Desirable: CPPE Pathway, Clinical diploma, Independent prescriber.

Experience:

• Desirable: Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience.
• Experience of working in a primary care setting.