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Clinical Pharmacist
| Posting date: | 31 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £50,000.00 to £55,000.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £50000.00 - £55000.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 August 2025 |
| Location: | Stockton-on-tees, TS17 6PG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A1110-25-0003 |
Summary
Patient facing or telephone- Long-term condition Clinics See patients (where appropriate) with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma).Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation). Patient facing or telephone - Clinical Medication Review Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring. Patient facing or telephone - care home medication reviews Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration. Patient facing domiciliary clinical medication review Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments Managing caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence. Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate Patient facing medicines support and Telephone Medicines support Provide patient facing support and telephone help for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines. Medicine information to practice staff and patients Answer relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes Hospital admissions - planned and unplanned Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high risk patient groups. Management of medicines at discharge from hospital To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge. Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes). Signposting Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc. Repeat prescribing Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review. Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required. Risk stratification Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both. Service development 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). Information management Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision-making. Medicines quality improvement Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team. Medicines safety Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance. Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economy's RAG list (RED, AMBER, GREEN)and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs). Auditing compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance. Education and Training If required, provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation. Care Quality Commission Work with practice teams to ensure they are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. Public health - To support public health campaigns. Collaborative Working Relationships Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the Primary Care Network and their role to patient care. Demonstrates use of appropriate communication Demonstrates ability to work as a member of a team. Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary. Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality. Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships. Liaise with ICB colleagues including ICB Medicine Management Team on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.. Leadership: Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace. Promotes diversity and equality in people management techniques and leads by example. Management: Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management. Education, Training and Development: Understands and demonstrates the characteristics of a role model to members in the team and/or service. Demonstrates self-development through continuous professional development activity; to identify areas to develop. Demonstrates an understanding of current educational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keeps up to date with relevant clinical practice. Ensures appropriate clinical supervision is in place to support development into review and appraisal systems within the practice. Research and Evaluation: Demonstrates ability to critically evaluate and review. Demonstrates ability to apply research evidence base into working place.