An exciting opportunity has arisen, Henfield Medical Centre are looking to recruit a Prescribing Clinical Pharmacist. You will be supported by our pharmacy technicians, clinical pharmacists, Dispensary Manager and Lead GP Prescriber who will supervise you.
You will work closely with the clinical and management team to support the practice and patients in the safe delivery of medicine management. You will also support the surgery to work towards achieving national and local targets in relation to medicines management.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
The Prescribing Clinical Pharmacist will be responsible for a combination of patient facing work such as medication reviews, chronic disease management, prescription queries and management of medicines through transfer of care. They will also play a significant role in service and quality improvement through audits of relevant work processes, sharing of best practice and current guidance with regard to prescribing and through work in medicines optimisation.
The successful candidate will be supported in terms of clinical learning and professional development through regular access to a GP clinical supervisor.
About us
Henfield Medical Centre is a rural practice based just north of Brighton in West Sussex. We are a busy surgery led by 3 GP Partners who are supported by a team of health care professionals and administrational staff. We have just over 10,000 patients and work closely with neighbourhood surgeries.
Job responsibilities
Job responsibilities
Clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
Contribute to the delivery of effective daily processes for the transfer of care between hospitals and GPs including effective signposting, recommendation of medication changes and communication accordingly.
Support colleagues and patients with medication queries and monitoring.
Take responsibility for the care management of patients with chronic diseases.
Undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy.
Focus especially on the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism.
Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines, while helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients.
Through the use of audits and action planning, help to tackle inequalities.
Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement.
Contribute to the General Practice quality and outcomes framework (QOF) and enhanced services.
Lead in Medicine Optimisation Incentive Schemes
Use structured medication reviews to support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care.
Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).
Work with general practice teams to ensure that practices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
Take a lead role in some aspects of supporting further integration of General Practice with other healthcare teams to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload.
Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists, liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Master of Pharmacy (or equivalent)
* Independent prescriber
Experience
* Minimum 2 years experience as a Clinical pharmacist
* Experience of common acute and long-term conditions
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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