Clinical PharmacistNHS

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic Clinical Pharmacist has arisen to join our team. The working hours for this position are full time, flexible.

This position will support our clinical teams dealing with day-to-day acute conditions alongside medication management including post discharge synchronisation, medication reviews and repeat prescribing.

We are looking for an individual who has excellent communication skills and adaptability to the ever-changing NHS. We will provide a friendly and supportive environment to work in alongside development and training. You will work alongside our existing clinical pharmacists supporting our practices with medicines management.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will manage and undertake the following duties:

• Clinical medication management and optimisation
• Acute and minor aliment clinics within the candidates competency framework
• Deal with incoming hospital discharges and third-party letters
• Repeat prescribing
• Supporting with QOF work
• Medicine safety and quality audits
• Care Quality Commission work
• Contractual target-based work
• Deal with medicine related queries

The successful applicant willwork within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management, provide face to face and telephone structured medication reviews, manage long-term conditions, ensure systems for safe prescribing, addressing public health and social care needs of patients at the practice. The post-holder will perform review of patients with polypharmacy especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities.

Job description

The post-holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management, provide face to face and telephone structured medication reviews, manage long-term conditions, ensure systems for safe prescribing, addressing public health and social care needs of patients at the practice. The post-holder will perform review of patients with polypharmacy especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities.

This role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation to deliver an excellent service within general practice.

Provide proactive leadership on medicines and prescribing systems to the multidisciplinary team, patients and their carers.

Understand the pharmacy role in governance and be able to implement this appropriately within the workplace

Maximise the use of technology and management systems to provide management of safety, risk and information

Focusing on prevention of illness and personalised care, and supporting patients to make informed decisions about their care and look after their own health, by connecting them with the full range of statutory and voluntary services

Deliver training and inform of prescribing updates, mentoring and guidance to other clinicians and staff on medicine issues

Support the practices in improving the health of their patients through the rational and safe use of medicines

Undertake responsibility for areas of QoF and Quality Contract and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy

Co-ordinate and lead meetings ensuring key performance indicators are identified and plans for achievement shared.

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

Provide advice for the GP management of more complex patients / polypharmacy patients

Report medicines related incidents, contribute to investigations and root cause analyses

Participate in serious incident investigations and multidisciplinary case reviews

Computer data entry/data allocation and collation, processing and recording information in accordance with practice procedures

Initiating contact with and responding to requests from patients, other team members and associated healthcare professionals and providers

Participate in the primary care network MDT liaising with key stake-holders to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.

About us

As the biggest provider of GP services in the North West, we are proud to have 40+ surgeries all rated by the CQC as either Outstanding or Good.

SSP Health cares for over 220,000 patients. We pioneered federated practice almost 20 years ago, allowing us to innovate to both improve patient care and enhance the wellbeing of our GPs.

We have won many awards over the years, and recently won Clinical Improvement for Chronic Conditions GP Practice Award and were finalists at the HSJ Awards.

We have an excellent network of support available from our practices with opportunities for development available to those who are interested in progression