Senior clinical practice pharmacist

Joinand lead our well established and highly skilled practice employed pharmacistteam. This is a permanent post, workingsolely for Air Balloon Surgery, and funded through the FABB PCN AdditionalRoles Reimbursement Scheme.

Thepost has become vacant as the existing post holder is leaving to pursue a newventure outside General Practice. We have a long tradition of employing our ownPractice Clinical Pharmacist, being one of the first in Bristol to do so. Wefully recognise the value and important role this brings to the wider team. Thepharmacy teams work is well established into practice pathways and workingarrangements.

Therole of the Senior Clinical Practice Pharmacist is well embedded as a seniorclinical role within the wider practice clinical team. Leading our existing Pharmacyteam, the role of the Senior Clinical Practice Pharmacist is pivotal toimproving the quality of care and ensuring patient safety.

Thesuccessful candidate will have a minimum of five years post graduateexperience, be an independent prescriber with primary care prescribingexperience, and will have completed the Primary Care Pharmacy EducationPathway.

Thepost could be worked as full time over five days, or part time - minimum of22.5 hours over three days.

Competitivesalary, negotiable depending on experience and skillset. 5.6 weeks pro rataannual leave per year with one week study leave.

Main duties of the job

Leadership of the Practice Pharmacy Team- ensuring the team delivers a comprehensive high-quality service to the patients and staff of the practice

Patient facing roles seeing patients and managing medication related problems and queries. Medication reviews at point of care transfer, especially for older frail, care homes and polypharmacy

Staff facing roles - providing support to general practice staff in relation to repeat prescriptions and medication queries

Quality, governance and improvement - working with the prescribing and wider practice team on safety and medicines optimisation. Leading on initiatives, medicines audit work and local projects and schemes of work

Theteam manage a complex and varied program of working across all aspects ofmedicines management. This includes day to day and more developmental andstrategic work. The post holder would lead this work along with qualityimprovement, audit and development of services. We work closely with the ICBClinical Pharmacist.

Regular clinical supervision by a GP partner with opportunities togrow and develop professionally.

About us

We are supportive, friendly and innovative and value teamplayers with a can do attitude to join our close knit team. We have an excellent track record forsupporting the development of individuals in specialist posts.

3 Partners and 6 Associate (salaried) GPs

Home Visits doneby Frail Care Physiotherapist

Extensively skilled nursing team, includingUrgent Care Nurses and nurse prescribers

Three clinicalpractice pharmacists including two prescribing

Extremely supportive and highly-trained CareNavigator team.

CPD well supported in-house and with externaltraining

GP Training practice

We are a registered Park-Run Practice.

Achieved overall good CQC rating

Job responsibilities

Brief summary below - please see attached Job Description for full details

Job responsibilities

The post holder is an experienced clinical pharmacist with previous experience of working in Primary Care, who acting within their professional boundaries and as part of the wider clinical team, will develop and manage medicine management services within the practice.

The post holder will lead the multi-disciplinary pharmacy team, to meet practice service requirements for medicines management.

The postholder will manage systems and be part of the workforce relating to repeat prescribing, authorisations and reauthorisation, acute prescription request, management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing.

The post holder will lead processes and perform medication review of patients with polypharmacy especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities.

The post holder will provide leadership on medicines optimisation, leading on local ICB projects and schemes of work, quality improvement and clinical audit.

See attached Job Description for full details;

Leadership of the practice pharmacy team

Line managing the team to ensure an effective high quality service is provided

Managing the practice pharmacy service

Lead and contribute to all national and local projects, initiatives contracts and schemes.

Managing change for medicines management.

Provision of clinical services.

Running own long term conditions work

Working as part of the urgent care team

Managing patients referred by other members of the wider practice team

Medication reviews

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Independent prescriber
• A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Specialist knowledge acquired through post- graduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years post qualification experience;
• In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of theprinciples of evidence based healthcare;
• Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/ persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers;
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision;

Skills & Knowledge

• An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)
• Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
• Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
• Specialist knowledge in a clinical area such as heart failure, diabetes etc.
• Familiar with EMIS

Personal qualities and attributes

• Ability to motivate others;
• Is able to manage multiple and complex numerous workstreams across ateam;
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
• Adaptable, self-motivating and hard working;
• Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines;
• Produce timely and informative reports;
• Work effectively independently and as a team member;
• Is able to bring qualities of innovative thinking, enthusiasm and commitment to the post;

Other

• Enhanced level Disclosure and Barring Service clearance

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.

Depending on experienceCompetitive salary negotiable depending on experience & skill set