AddressAbout the Role
Loughton, Buckhurst Hill and Chigwell PCN are looking to welcome a clinical pharmacist into our busy practice, to play a full and active role within our multi-disciplinary team. Training will be provided. The role is offered on a full time basis.
The main responsibilities of the role include
- Clinically assessing and treating patients, using expert knowledge of medicines, for specific disease areas;
- Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines and medicine information (e.g. side-effects, dosage);
- Providing pharmaceutical medication review and health education advice to patients, by face-to-face, telephone or notes-based review, as agreed with the practice;
- Providing leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement;
- Processing specialist treatment letters;
- Processing hospital medication discharge letters;
- Acting as a key contact, for all medication related queries;
- Supporting improvements in clinical care, through practice-based audits and implementing change;
- Running clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics;
- Conducting FENO, diabetic foot checks and NHS health checks, as well as other tasks, as required, on completion of appropriate training;
- Conducting care-planning, including mental health, admission avoidance schemes, and end-of-life patients.
- Reviewing daily pathology results and act on results.
- Capturing relevant patient health information at all consultations including contributing to the quality outcomes framework;
- Monitoring patients with complex, long-term conditions such as hypertension, diabetes and COPD, ensuring that medication is optimised, titrated, monitored and complied with;
- Liaising with other providers, such as secondary care, community pharmacy and care or nursing homes, as necessary, to ensure the safe transfer of care;
- Delivering on and/or overseeing relevant aspects of the PCN Directed Enhanced Service (DES).
- Taking a central role in the clinical aspects of shared-care protocols, and liaison with specialist pharmacists;
- Being part of a professional clinical network and having access to appropriate clinical supervision.
- Managing the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process, by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates;
- Reviewing prescribing against local and national targets, and engaging with the wider prescribing team to rectify any issues;
- Carrying out structured medicines-optimisation reviews in care homes;
- Contributing to the reduction of medicine wastage within practices across the PCN.
About the Candidate
You will be a qualified pharmacist and have the following skills and qualifications:
- Completion of a degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council;
- Post-qualification experience in pharmacy (hospital, primary care or community), or working towards obtaining this;
- Awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice;
- Ability to demonstrate general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas;
- Ability to demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision as an individuals;
- Ability to recognise priorities when problem-solving and identify deviations from normal patterns, referring to seniors or GPs with confidence, when appropriate;
- Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies, procedures and codes of conduct;
- Ability to assist patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidance;
- Non-judgemental attitude and ability to be flexible and adaptable;
- Self-motivated with excellent communication skills.
About Us
We are a team of highly skilled NHS clinicians working collaboratively with your GP surgery, to provide greater provision of personalised, coordinated, and integrated health and social care, in your community.
We offer a range of benefits including: NHS pension scheme, health service discounts and minimum 25 days annual leave FTE.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
Please note 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.
