Clinical Pharmacist

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Patient care & medication reviews

Conduct medication reviews in clinics, care homes, patients homes, and via phone to ensure medicines are appropriate, effective, and safe.

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Support for long-term conditions & minor illnesses

Help manage chronic conditions (e.g. asthma, COPD) and treat minor ailments within scope, referring patients when needed.

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Patient support & advice

Run clinics and answer patient questions about medicines and improve adherence.

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Care coordination

Ensure safe transitions of care, especially after hospital discharge, by reconciling medicines and maintaining continuity of supply.

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Medicines safety & quality improvement

Identify high-risk patients, reduce medication-related harm, audit prescribing practices, and implement safety alerts and guidelines.

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Prescribing processes

Manage repeat prescriptions, ensure proper monitoring, and support safe prescribing systems.

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Collaboration & communication

Provide medicines information to healthcare staff, work with care homes and pharmacies, and ensure appropriate patient referrals.

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Service development & data use

Contribute to new services, analyse prescribing data, and support decision-making.

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Guideline implementation

Ensure compliance with local/national prescribing guidelines and formularies.

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Education & training

Train healthcare staff and support pharmacy technicians.

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Regulation & public health

Help meet Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards

The post holder is a pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacists in general practice. In this role they will be supported by a senior clinical pharmacist who will develop, manage and mentor them.

The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.

The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patient in the GP practice(s).

The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.

The post holder will ensure that the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload. The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice.

The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a non- medical prescriber.

Primary duties and areas of responsibility

Patient-facing long-term condition clinics

Patient-facing clinical medication review

Patient-facing care home medication reviews

Patient-facing domiciliary clinical medication review

Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments

Patient-facing medicines support

Telephone medicines support

Medicine information to practice staff and patients

Unplanned hospital admissions

Management of medicines at discharge from hospital

Signposting

Repeat prescribing

Risk stratification

Service development

Information management

Medicines quality improvement

Medicines safety

Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations

Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs).

Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system.

Education and training

Care Quality Commission

Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

Public health

To support public health campaigns.

To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.

Collaborative working relationships

Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care

Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g. CCGs)

Demonstrates ability to work as a member of a teamIs able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary

Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality

Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality

Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships

Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams

Liaises with CCG colleagues including CCG Pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit

Liaises with CCG pharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management/ Optimisation to benefit from peer support

Liaises with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients including but not limited to

Patients

GP, nurses and other practice staff

Other healthcare professionals including CCG pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, optometrists, dentists, health and social care teams and dieticians etc.

Locality / GP prescribing lead

Locality managers

Community nurses and other allied health professionals

Community and hospital pharmacy teams

Hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimisation

Knowledge, skills and experience required

Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Minimum of 2 years experience as a pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio.

Have experience and an awareness of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice

May hold or be working towards an independent prescribing qualification.

Recognises priorities when problem-solving and identifies deviations from normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate

Able to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conductInvolves patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidelines.

NB: the level of qualification held may vary according to the level of position and the components of the role being carried out.

George Clare Surgery is a three partner, part-dispensing practice in the Fens of Cambridgeshire, with a practice list size of around 12,000 patients. We have a Dispensary, with one Dispenser/Trainee Pharmacy Technician, and two Prescription Clerks.

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