Clinical PharmacistNHS

Job summary

We are excited to recruit a Clinical Pharmacist to join our expanding multidisciplinary team as part of a new in-house pharmacy service at Hollyns Health & Wellbeing. This is an excellent opportunity to play a key role in developing and delivering an innovative, patient-centred pharmacy service that supports high-quality primary care.

Working closely with GPs, nurses, and other healthcare professionals, you will provide expert clinical pharmacy input to optimise medicines use, improve patient outcomes, and enhance prescribing quality and safety. You will undertake structured medication reviews, support the management of long-term conditions, manage medication-related queries, and contribute to the safe and effective use of medicines across the practice.

The postholder will contribute to quality improvement programmes, clinical audits, medicines optimisation initiatives, and service development, ensuring care is delivered in line with national guidance and local priorities. You will also support the implementation of evidence-based prescribing and identify opportunities to improve patient safety and efficiency.

This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive and motivated Clinical Pharmacist who is passionate about delivering high-quality patient care and helping to establish a sustainable and forward-thinking in-house pharmacy service within General Practice

Main duties of the job

Contribute to the daily work of our in-house pharmacy service, working alongside an Advanced Practice Pharmacist; supported daily by the medicines management lead.

To work closely with GPs, Clinicians and other practice staff and members of the primary healthcare team in developing your own skills to manage patient care and support high quality, safe, cost effective, rational, and evidence-based prescribing.

Demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills, for patients within the general practice.

The post holder will demonstrate critical thinking in the clinical decision-making process.

They will work collaboratively with the general practice team to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures.

Please see the job description for key roles & responsibilities.

Job description

Key Duties & Responsibilities

Medication reviews, computer based or telephone calls for more complex patients, first source of information for patients about medication.

Medication and treatment reconciliation systems for patients transferred out of and back into the practice, assess unplanned admissions and systems to prevent further unplanned admissions.

Practice formularies maintain.

QOF ensure data connectivity and proactive organisation to deliver maximum QOF for the practice. Regular QOF audits. Improve risk stratification of pathways and improve service delivery.

Medicine management e.g. polypharmacy

Medicines optimisation, support joint goal setting with patients and appropriate treatment selection to support better medicines experience. Reducing waste and improving outcomes. Follow up identified patient groups targeting better concordance leading to improved outcomes.

Monitoring of long-term meds e.g. lithium,amiodarone, shared care medications and blood results

Monitoring and managing repeat prescription wastage including patient adherence.

Optimising medication/titration e.g. HF

Work with clinical team members on long-term conditions (Diabetes, Asthma, COPD, Depression, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Hypertension, Arthritis, Pain, Heart Failure, Shared care drug monitoring)

Manage patients with more complex long-term conditions such as difficult hypertension, compliance with lipid-lowering therapy.

Assess and issue day to day acute medication requests as appropriate.

Address day to day medication queries.

Undertake repeat medication reviews and reauthorisation as appropriate.

Review and load repeat medication for new patient registrations.

Identify and support patients where concordance issues.

Liaise with community pharmacists to solve common day to day prescribing problems like preparation availability/alternatives etc.

Liaise with community pharmacists for the setting up, monitoring, and updating of all patients on NOMAD trays.

Liaise with community nurses and prepare MARS sheets as needed and support practice anticipatory prescribing process in liaison with community nurses and Community Pharmacy

Liaising with care homes and community nurses re dressings

Responsibility for lithium and antipsychotic drug monitoring and review of blood results

Review the prescribing for patients with multi-morbidity and polypharmacy.

Report and follow up patient drug safety/adverse reactions.

Support patient self-care and medicines management and concordance through education.

Support staff education and development.

Support development of local services to improve workflow within the practice.

Work with clinical team members on long-term conditions (Diabetes, Asthma, COPD, Depression, Heart failure drug titration

Work with team to implement and maintain Practice formulary in longer term.

Development: support development of local services to improve workflow within the practice

Service advancement; deliver specific disease management clinic through personal development and independent prescribing.

About us

Hollyns Health and Wellbeing is a proactive practice with two sites, who offer additional services to the practice population, such as warfarin, pain management, sexual health, Level 2 diabetic clinics and minor surgery.

Teamwork is integral in ensuring the service is run as effectively and efficiently for the patients as possible.

The successful candidate will be able to continue their service benefits if coming from the NHS in relation to the NHS Pension Scheme and annual leave entitlement.

The Surgery has

• 12,300 patients approx.
• GPs, Nurses, Health Care Assistants, Pharmacists, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Womens Newborn & Infant Practitioner and Administration staff
• Chronic disease clinics for diabetes, asthma and COPD
• Rated Good by CQC
• Active GP and Nursing training and teaching practice
• SystmOne clinical system
• High QOF achievement
• Part of a Primary Care Network with access to additional pharmacists, social prescribers, physiotherapy