Clinical Pharmacist Job Crewe area,England UK,Healthcare

Job summary

We're recruiting a qualified and experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our enthusiastic and proactive Practice Dispensary Team. You will be managing the Dispensary Team directly so you will be working alongside our dispensers and administrators to ensure a safe and effective service.

You'll be part of a multi-disciplinary team providing specialist knowledge and advice on pharmaceutical matters, including cost-effective prescribing and clinical guidelines for disease treatment.

The role will also involve providing structured medication reviews, management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing specialist knowledge and advice on pharmaceutical matters while addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients.

You will also work alongside our GPs to help achieve our QOF targets.

Main duties of the job

To practice as an independent prescriber
To manage the dispensary and the staff within it
To provide advice and support for patients with self-limiting conditions
To work to improve communication about medication-related issues between the practice and other care providers
To lead on implementation of safe and efficient repeat prescribing systems

This job description is not exhaustive and duties may vary with the requirements of the GP Practice.

About us

Holmes Chapel Health Centre has a skilled and experienced team of 5 GP Partners leading a Clinical Team of Salaried GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Nurses and HCAs.

Our current patient list is circa 13,000 and the practice is well placed to be at the forefront of general practice, provide innovative and robust services, as well as provide development opportunities for the staff.

We are based in a modern purpose-built surgery, with an good CQC grading, and our ethos is to deliver high-quality medical care through our comprehensive, highly skilled team members.

Job responsibilities

Main purpose of job
To oversea the dispensary and manage the dispensary team
To provide specialist knowledge and advice on pharmaceutical matters, including cost-effective prescribing and clinical guidelines for disease treatment, and to also provide evidence-based education and training for colleagues in partnership with the practice
To practice as an independent prescriber
To provide advice and support for patients with self-limiting conditions
To work to improve communication about medication-related issues between the practice and other care providers
To lead on implementation of safe and efficient repeat prescribing systems
Contribute to improved health outcomes in long term conditions
Support patients to manage their long term conditions.
Medication review / medicines optimisation
Review if prescribing is appropriate in line with current guidance, cost-effective and safe; identify unmet need, stop unnecessary/ineffective medicines. Implement own prescribing changes as an independent prescriber.
Contribute to achievement of QOF targets to improve health outcomes
Review patients that are on nomad trays and decide if required or not
Provide specialist knowledge and advice on pharmaceutical matters
Review NICE and other evidence-based guidance as it is issued, to evaluate any impact on medicines and prescribing.
Undertake regular clinical audit to support implementation of clinical guidance across the practice.
Provide regular education sessions for the clinicians at the practice to discuss audit results and agree an action plan for improving standards within clinical areas.
Provide advice on suitable alternative medications in the event of a medicine being unavailable.
Encourage cost effective prescribing within the practice, including adherence to local formulary.
Build good working relationships with local Medicines Management Team members
Review all safety alerts (e.g. MHRA) and ensure any action required is undertaken
Improve communication about medication-related issues between the practice and both the patient and other care providers
To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospital/ intermediate care; identify and rectify unexplained changes, manage these changes without referral to the GP; perform a clinical mediation review; produce a post-discharge medicines care plan including dose titration and booking of follow-up test, and work 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.…