Job summary
Millbrook Medical Centre is a well-established and busy training practice serving a population of just over 11,900 patients from two sites across Kirkby. We currently have a fantastic opportunity for a Band 7 Clinical Pharmacist to join our experienced and friendly team.
The post holder will be responsible for working closely with both the clinical and non-clinical teams to deliver a high standard of pharmaceutical services to all healthcare professionals and patients.
You will be given daily support from our multi-disciplinary team of professionals including two further Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technician. We also have a 5 strong management team and 23 strong admin team and operate a Supervising GP model.
The post holder will be an integral part of the general practice team as well as part of a wider pharmacy network and multi-disciplinary team and will ideally have at least two years post qualification experience.
In return we will give the post holder support to become an independent prescriber as well as opportunity to develop any area of special interest.
We welcome applications from all branches of the pharmaceutical industry, particularly community and hospital pharmacy.
Main duties of the job
To participate in person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement.
To participate in multi-disciplinary meetings to optimise patient care using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
Be responsible for proactively managing people with complex polypharmacy.
Participate in the pharmaceutical management of people with chronic diseases both face to face and via telephone.
To manage a therapeutic drug monitoring system and the recall for patients taking high risk drugs.
To participate in the organisations medicines optimisation systems, including the repeat prescribing and medical review systems.
Develop and deliver educational programmes for healthcare professionals and patients in order to improve patient and carer understanding, confidence in and adherence with their medication.
About us
Millbrook Medical Centre is a large and innovative training practice with a
professional and friendly atmosphere.
Our Practice is led by 4 experienced GP Partners incorporating a 10
strong planned care team consisting of 2 further Pharmacists, 1
Pharmacy Technician, 2 Practice Nurses, 3 Health Care Assistants and a
Phlebotomist.
Our mission statement is to
"enable and sustain our people, our patients and our place" and we do
this through empowerment, participation and inclusion from all relevant
stakeholders.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Millbrook Medical Centre is a leading provider of healthcare services committed to excellence in patient care. We are currently seeking an experienced Pharmacist to join our dedicated team.
Responsibilities:
- To provide clinical expertise on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement.
- Working as a team develop and implement clinical pharmacy services.
- Contribute to integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload.
- Patient Care:
- Participate in multi disciplinary meetings to optimise patient care using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
- Conduct comprehensive medication reviews and interventions for patients.
- Be responsible for proactively managing people with complex polypharmacy.
- Contribute to the care management of patients with chronic diseases.
- To consult patients within levels of professional competence and independently prescribe acute and repeat medication.
- To manage a caseload of complex patients.
- To provide medication review services for patients in the practice and during domiciliary visits to the local nursing home.
- To manage a therapeutic drug monitoring system and the recall of patients taking high risk drugs including warfarin monitoring clinics, docman, blood reviews and possibly, where clinically competent, folate, vitamin D and thyroid reviews.
- To support clinicians with the management of patients suffering from drug and alcohol dependencies.
- To deliver long term condition clinics and home visits, particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes, and prescribe accordingly.
- To review medications for newly registered patients.
- To actively signpost patients to the correct healthcare professional.
- To receive referrals and directed patients from triage services and other clinicians.
- Quality Improvement:
- Work as a team to drive quality improvement initiatives related to medication safety and efficacy.
- Work as a team to analyse and evaluate pharmacy-related outcomes to enhance patient care.
- Work as a team to provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the practice to help tackle inequalities.
- Proactively engage and contribute towards the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
- To participate in the organisations medicines optimisation systems, including the repeat prescribing and medical review systems.
- To ensure appropriate supervision of safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs. To apply infection control measures within the practice accordingly to local and national guidelines.
- To review and keep up to date with the latest guidance, ensuring the organisation conforms to NICE, CQC etc.
- To contribute to public health campaigns (e.g covid-19 or flu clinics) through advice or direct care.
- To maintain a clean, tidy and effective working area at all times.
- Education and Training:
- To support junior clinical pharmacists and pharmacy staff.
- Participate in delivering educational programmes for healthcare professionals and patients in order to improve patient and carer understanding of confidence in and compliance with their medication.
- To develop yourself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training and service redesign activities.
- To undertake all mandatory training and induction programmes.
- To contribute to and embrace the spectrum of clinical governance.
- To attend a formal appraisal with your manager at least every 12 months.
- Research and Development:
- Participate in audit projects related to pharmacy practice and patient outcomes.
- Stay abreast of current literature and advancements in pharmacy practice.
- Collaboration:
- Collaborate with medical staff, nursing, and other healthcare professionals and administration staff in order to optimise patient outcomes.
- Serve as a resource for drug information and evidence-based practice.
- Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties), liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation.
- Working as a team to act as a point of contact for all medicine related matters, establishing a positive working relationship.
- To participate in the management of patient complaints when requested to do so, and participate in the identification of any necessary learning brought about through clinical incidents and near miss events.
- Policy Development:
- Contribute to the development and implementation of pharmacy policies and procedures.
- To maintain accurate clinical records ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and standards.
- To encourage cost effective prescribing throughout the organisation.
- To improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education, to improve performance against NICE standards and clinical and prescribing guidance.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Millbrook Medical Centre is a leading provider of healthcare services committed to excellence in patient care. We are currently seeking an experienced Pharmacist to join our dedicated team.
Responsibilities:
- To provide clinical expertise on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement.
- Working as a team develop and implement clinical pharmacy services.
- Contribute to integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload.
- Patient Care:
- Participate in multi disciplinary meetings to optimise patient care using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
- Conduct comprehensive medication reviews and interventions for patients.
- Be responsible for proactively managing people with complex polypharmacy.
- Contribute to the care management of patients with chronic diseases.
- To consult patients within levels of professional competence and independently prescribe acute and repeat medication.
- To manage a caseload of complex patients.
- To provide medication review services for patients in the practice and during domiciliary visits to the local nursing home.
- To manage a therapeutic drug monitoring system and the recall of patients taking high risk drugs including warfarin monitoring clinics, docman, blood reviews and possibly, where clinically competent, folate, vitamin D and thyroid reviews.
- To support clinicians with the management of patients suffering from drug and alcohol dependencies.
- To deliver long term condition clinics and home visits, particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes, and prescribe accordingly.
- To review medications for newly registered patients.
- To actively signpost patients to the correct healthcare professional.
- To receive referrals and directed patients from triage services and other clinicians.
- Quality Improvement:
- Work as a team to drive quality improvement initiatives related to medication safety and efficacy.
- Work as a team to analyse and evaluate pharmacy-related outcomes to enhance patient care.
- Work as a team to provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the practice to help tackle inequalities.
- Proactively engage and contribute towards the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
- To participate in the organisations medicines optimisation systems, including the repeat prescribing and medical review systems.
- To ensure appropriate supervision of safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs. To apply infection control measures within the practice accordingly to local and national guidelines.
- To review and keep up to date with the latest guidance, ensuring the organisation conforms to NICE, CQC etc.
- To contribute to public health campaigns (e.g covid-19 or flu clinics) through advice or direct care.
- To maintain a clean, tidy and effective working area at all times.
- Education and Training:
- To support junior clinical pharmacists and pharmacy staff.
- Participate in delivering educational programmes for healthcare professionals and patients in order to improve patient and carer understanding of confidence in and compliance with their medication.
- To develop yourself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training and service redesign activities.
- To undertake all mandatory training and induction programmes.
- To contribute to and embrace the spectrum of clinical governance.
- To attend a formal appraisal with your manager at least every 12 months.
- Research and Development:
- Participate in audit projects related to pharmacy practice and patient outcomes.
- Stay abreast of current literature and advancements in pharmacy practice.
- Collaboration:
- Collaborate with medical staff, nursing, and other healthcare professionals and administration staff in order to optimise patient outcomes.
- Serve as a resource for drug information and evidence-based practice.
- Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties), liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation.
- Working as a team to act as a point of contact for all medicine related matters, establishing a positive working relationship.
- To participate in the management of patient complaints when requested to do so, and participate in the identification of any necessary learning brought about through clinical incidents and near miss events.
- Policy Development:
- Contribute to the development and implementation of pharmacy policies and procedures.
- To maintain accurate clinical records ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and standards.
- To encourage cost effective prescribing throughout the organisation.
- To improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education, to improve performance against NICE standards and clinical and prescribing guidance.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience.
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
- 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.
- Experience and an awareness of common acute and chronic conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
- An appreciation of the new NHS landscape, including the relationships between individual practices, PCNs and the commissioners.
Desirable
- Experience in managing pharmacy services in primary care.
- In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare.
- Understanding the mentorship process.
Qualifications
Essential
- Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
Desirable
- Enrolled on, or has qualified from, an approved 18 month training pathway or equivalent that equips them to 1) be able to practice and prescribe safely and effectively in a primary care setting (i.e the CPPE Clinical Pharmacist Training Pathways) and 2) deliver the key responsibilities outlined in Section B 1.3 of the Network Contracted Enhanced Service Specification 2023-24.
- A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm).
- Clinical diploma.
- Independent Prescriber.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience.
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
- 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.
- Experience and an awareness of common acute and chronic conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
- An appreciation of the new NHS landscape, including the relationships between individual practices, PCNs and the commissioners.
Desirable
- Experience in managing pharmacy services in primary care.
- In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare.
- Understanding the mentorship process.
Qualifications
Essential
- Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
Desirable
- Enrolled on, or has qualified from, an approved 18 month training pathway or equivalent that equips them to 1) be able to practice and prescribe safely and effectively in a primary care setting (i.e the CPPE Clinical Pharmacist Training Pathways) and 2) deliver the key responsibilities outlined in Section B 1.3 of the Network Contracted Enhanced Service Specification 2023-24.
- A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm).
- Clinical diploma.
- Independent Prescriber.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
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Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
