Clinical Prescribing Pharmacist

Cuffley and Goffs Oak Medical Practice is seeking an enthusiastic and motivated clinical pharmacist to join our practice team. The position is part-time for three days a week - ideally Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a patient-facing role within general practice, supporting medicines optimisation, improving patient outcomes and contributing to high quality care. 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;
• Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation and adult immunisation programmes;
• Processing specialist treatment letters;
• Supporting practice dispensary;
• 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
• Conducting care-planning, including: mental health, admission avoidance schemes and end-of-life patients.
• Undertaking minor ailments triage and directing patients, based on clinical need;
• 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;
• Providing clinical advice and expertise on medication;
• Establishing ongoing professional relationships with individual patients;
• 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, clinical research with medicines and liaison with specialist pharmacists;
• 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
  
  You will be a qualified pharmacist with strong experience within primary care and have the following skills and qualifications:
• Completion of a degree in pharmacy;
• Current UK professional registration, with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC);
• Post-qualification experience in pharmacy (hospital, primary care or community), or working towards obtaining this;
• Qualified independent prescriber;
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS);
• 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 plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general care plans for patients with long-term conditions;
• 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;
• Understand the need for patient confidentiality.