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Clinical Pharmacist
| Posting date: | 10 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £37,500 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £37500 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 April 2025 |
| Location: | Gravesend, DA13 0AH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A2644-25-0000 |
Summary
Provide expertise in clinical medicines review and address public health and social needs of patients in GP practices Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues Interface with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals including the promotion of the CCG repeat dispensing service Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates Manage patients and health care professionals medicine queries Increase quality and safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA cycles Manage practice formularies to improve the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of prescribing Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety Work with primary care professional and patients to implement NICE and other evidence based guidelines Run clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. hypertension clinics Contribute to multi-morbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews Provide medicines information and training to Practice healthcare professionals and admin staff Review daily Pathology results for patients on known medicines Act as a source of medicines information for all of the practice team and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives e.g. around out of stocks) Undertake minor ailments triage: dealing with minor ailments and triaging patients appropriately Has an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice CORE RESPONSIBILITIES Working at Meopham Medical Centre to undertake medication reviews particularly in high risk groups such as: Frail elderly Poly-pharmacy Renal impairment Hepatic impairment Substance misuse Patients on high risk medicines STOPP/START identified patients Revolving door Hospital admissions Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all prescribers within the practice Lead on where changes in evidence require changes in prescribing across patient population e.g. where a drug is withdrawn or indications change Liaise with colleagues in community pharmacy to align support for medicines adherence such as MUR and NMS Support improvements in clinical care through practice based audit and implementing change Prescribing advice to prescribers in practice e.g. temporary non availability of drugs Ensure patient safety when they are transferred between care providers through reconciliation of prescribed medicines QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING FOR THIS JOB Requirements: GPhC Registered Pharmacist GPhC Independent Prescriber Qualification Experience working in primary care Strong IT skills, including working knowledge of EMIS Web Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills Completion of an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy, and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council Minimum of 2 years post graduate experience in pharmacy, as demonstrated within a practice portfolio Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) Member of or working towards (through foundation) RPS Faculty membership May hold or be working towards a prescribing qualification May hold or be working towards a postgraduate pharmacy qualification MANAGEMENT Demonstrates understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service Demonstrates understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation Demonstrates understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management Demonstrates ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team EDUCATION, TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT Understands and demonstrates the characterises of a role model to members in the team and/or service Demonstrates understanding of the mentorship process Demonstrates ability to conduct teaching and assessment effectively according to a learning plan with supervision from a more experienced colleague Demonstrates self-development through continuous professional development activity Participates in the delivery of formal education programmes Demonstrates an understanding of current educational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keeps up to date with relevant clinical practice RESEARCH AND EVALUATION Demonstrates ability to critically evaluate and review literature Demonstrates ability to identify where there is a gap in the evidence base to support practice Demonstrates ability to generate evidence suitable for presentation at local level Demonstrates ability to apply the research evidence base into working practice Demonstrates understanding of the principles of research governance Demonstrates ability to work as a member of the research team CONFIDENTIALITY While seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, Practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.