Clinical Pharmacist

• Clinically assessing and treating patients, using expert knowledge of medicines, for specific disease areas
• Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines and medicine information (e.g. side-effects, dosage)
• Providing pharmaceutical medication review and health education advice to patients, by face-to-face, telephone or notes-based review, as agreed with the practice
• Providing leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement
• Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation and adult immunisation programmes
• Processing specialist treatment letters
• Processing hospital medication discharge letters
• Acting as a key contact, for all medication related queries
• Supporting improvements in clinical care, through practice-based audits and implementing change
• Running clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics
• Conducting care-planning, including: mental health, admission avoidance schemes and end-of-life patients.
• Reviewing daily pathology results and act on results.
• Undertaking minor ailments triage and directing patients, based on clinical need
• Capturing relevant patient health information at all consultations including contributing to the quality outcomes framework
• Monitoring patients with complex, long-term conditions such as hypertension, diabetes and COPD, ensuring that medication is optimised, titrated, monitored and complied with
• Providing clinical advice and expertise on medication
• Establishing ongoing professional relationships with individual patients
• Liaising with other providers, such as secondary care, community pharmacy and care or nursing homes, as necessary, to ensure the safe transfer of care
• Delivering on and/or overseeing relevant aspects of the PCN Directed Enhanced Service (DES).
• Taking a central role in the clinical aspects of shared-care protocols, clinical research with medicines and liaison with specialist pharmacists
• Being part of a professional clinical network and having access to appropriate clinical supervision
• Supporting the PCN clinical director as necessary
• Managing the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process, by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates
• Reviewing prescribing against local and national targets, and engaging with the wider prescribing team to rectify any issues
• Carrying out structured medicines-optimisation reviews in care homes
• Contributing to the reduction of medicine wastage within practices. across the PCN.

• 25 days annual leave entitlement
• NHS pension scheme
• Flexible working hours
• Peer support
• Supportive and friendly environment

Essential

• Completion of a degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Post-qualification experience in pharmacy (hospital, primary care or community), or working towards obtaining this
• Qualified independent prescriber
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
• Awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice
• Ability to demonstrate general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas
• Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general care plans for patients with long-term conditions
• Ability to demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision as an individuals
• Ability to recognise priorities when problem-solving and identify deviations from normal patterns, referring to seniors or GPs with confidence, when appropriate
• Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies, procedures and codes of conduct
• Ability to assist patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidance
• Non-judgemental attitude and ability to be flexible and adaptable
• Self-motivated with excellent communication skills
• Understand the need for patient confidentiality.