Clinical Pharmacist Plymouth, England
Job description
We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Pharmacist to join our Primary Care Network based in Plymouth. A key member of the practice responsible for medicines management services across the organisation. The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to manage repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation, acute prescription requests, management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing.
Who are we?
We are a GP single-practice Primary Care Network based within the Plymouth area, providing care to over 30,000 patients. We aspire to delivering excellence in health care and feel the best model to achieve this is one where we have a unified service working across multiple locations including Plympton, Laira, Efford, Crownhill and the city centre. This gives our patients choice: choice over where they visit and who they see. This is particularly useful for patients that need a little extra expertise – many of our clinicians have a specific area of interest and sometimes it is worth travelling to see them for their extra skills in a specific area.
We have approximately 140 employees and employ a wide variety of different roles including Salaried GP’s, Pharmacists, Paramedics, Physiotherapists, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Pharmacy Technicians, Practice Nurses, Healthcare Assistants, Phlebotomists Receptionist, Administrators and many more!
We believe that our employees are our greatest asset and wanted to recognise this by voluntarily becoming a Real Living Wage employer in April 2021.
Role Responsibilities:
Medication Review:
- To undertake medication reviews with patients and propose changes as appropriate.
- Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing through medication review.
- Support medication reviews of care home residents in line with current guidelines.
- Support medication reviews of vulnerable housebound patients at risk of hospital admission and harm from poor use of medications.
- Management of medicines at discharge from hospital.
- Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and intermediate care. Identify and rectify unexplained changes, manage these changes, perform clinical medication reviews and produce post discharge medicines care plan. Work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.
- Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and re-admissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicine related issues.
- Work with hospital colleagues to proactively manage patient pre-discharge (e.g. care of the elderly, doctors and clinical pharmacists) to proactively manage patients at high risk of medicine-related problems before they are discharged to ensure continuity of care.
- Implement practice searches of patients most likely at risk of unplanned admission and re-admissions from medicines.
Repeat Prescribing:
- Manage the repeat prescribing re-authorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates; make necessary changes as an independent prescriber, and ensure patients are booked in for necessary monitoring tests where required.
- Review daily pathology results for patients on known medicines.
- Manage practice formularies to improve the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of prescribing.
Medicines Information:
- Manage patients and health care professionals’ medicine queries.
- Act as a source of medicines information for all of the practice team and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives e.g. low/out of stock.
- Provide medicines information and training to Practice healthcare professionals and admin staff.
- Work with community pharmacy to promote and refer patients in to the community pharmacy minor ailments service: dealing with minor ailments and triaging patients appropriately.
Medication Safety and Quality:
- Increase quality and safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA cycles.
- Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety.
- Work with primary care professional and patients to implement NICE and other evidence based guidelines.
- Provide leadership to the Practice Manager and GP’s to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
The ideal candidate will have the following skills:
- Exceptional communication skills (written and oral).
- High level of computer literacy.
- A flexible pro-active approach to work.
- Experience of autonomous practice working and multi-professional team working.
- Ability to work on own initiative and prioritise task effectively.
- Ability to make clear decisions with confidence and communicate these effectively.
- Ability to work under pressure while remaining calm in difficult situations.
- Ability to effectively assess, plan, treat and refer patients appropriately and evaluate patient care confidently
- Broad and sound knowledge of complex and common conditions in primary care in both adults and children.
- Experience of working to protocols / guidelines and patient groups / patient specific directives.
- Professionalism and discretion when dealing with sensitive information, maintaining confidentiality at all times.
The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications and experience:
- Completion of an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy, and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Minimum of 1 years post graduate experience in pharmacy, as demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS).
- Must hold or be working towards a postgraduate pharmacy qualification.
Why should you apply?
- Competitive salary based on experience.
- A supportive and friendly working environment.
- An offer of a permanent contract on completion of a probation period.
- An opportunity to join the NHS Pension scheme.
- An opportunity to join the Cycle to Work Scheme.
- 6.6 weeks holidays including bank holidays (pro rata).
- Eligibility for the NHS discount service.
- An opportunity to develop personal skills and experience.
- An annual study leave entitlement to aid development.
- Comprehensive induction/training schedule.
- In house teaching, mentoring and support.
How to apply?
If you think you're the right person to fulfil this role within our team then we want to hear from you! Please apply via CV and supporting statement telling us why you would be the ideal candidate for this role!
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Interviews: Initial interviews will be held virtually via video call.
Salary: Salary negotiable depending on experience.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Experience:
- NHS/Primary care: 2 years (preferred)
Work Location: One location
