Clinical Pharmacist

About the Role

The Guildhall & Barrow Surgery is looking to welcome a qualified and experienced clinical pharmacist into our busy practice, to play a full and active role within our multi-disciplinary team. The role is offered on a full-time basis although part time hours may be considered for the right candidate.

The main responsibilities of the role include:

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas
• Consult patients within defined levels of competence and independently prescribe
• Receive referrals and directed patients from triage services and other clinicians
• Receive and resolve medicines queries from patients and other staff
• Provide medication review services for patients in the practice and during domiciliary visits to the local nursing home
• Manage a caseload of complex patients, as appropriate
• Manage therapeutic drug monitoring system and recall of patients taking high risk drugs, i.e. anticoagulants, anticonvulsants and DMARDs etc
• Deliver long term conditions clinics and home visits particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes and prescribe accordingly
• Provide pharmaceutical consultations to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team
• Review medications for newly registered patients
• Improve patient and carer understanding of, confidence in and compliance with their medication
• Encourage cost-effective prescribing.
• Implement and embed a robust repeat prescribing system.
• Provide advice and answer medication related queries from patients and staff
• Medicines optimisation systems including the repeat prescribing and medication review systems
• Improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education to improve performance against NICE standards and clinical and prescribing guidance.
• Develop yourself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training and service redesign activities
• Ensure appropriate supervision of safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs. To apply infection-control measures within the practice according to local and national guidelines

Please see additional duties attached.

About the Candidate

To be considered for this position, you will require the following:

Essential:

• GPhC registered pharmacist
• Hold or be working towards an GPhC independent prescribing qualification
• Experience in managing pharmacy services in primary care

Desirable:

• Membership of the Royal College of Pharmacy
• Minimum of two years working as a pharmacist demonstrated within a practice portfolio

About Us

The Guildhall & Barrow Surgery is a friendly two site GP practice with a patient list size of approx 13,800. The practice is made up of 6 x GP Partners, 8 x salaried GP's, 1 x Senior Clinical Pharmacist, 2 x Advanced Nurse practitioners, 1 x Nurse prescriber (supported by a team of RGN's and HCA's). We also have a visiting paramedic, pharmacy technician and first contact physio service provided by BSE PCN. We are an accredited GP training practice and our clinical system is SystmOne.

Benefits

Benefits: NHS pension scheme.

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.