GP Practice Clinical Pharmacist

Hatfield Health Centre wants to recruit a key member of the practice team. Working along another clinical pharmacist and a pharmacy technician, you will provide expert advice and training around medications for our patients and the other clinicians and non-clinicians in the practice team. We are a practice which respects and encourages the role that clinical pharmacists play in providing a safe medication service for our patients.

We have a record of being high achievers in local Medicine Management schemes and other quality improvement initiatives. The practice shares a site with an independently owned pharmacy and we enjoy a productive, collaborative relationship with the pharmacy, for our patients, who choose to use it.

The main responsibilities of the role are to:

Review patients by face to face and remoted consultation on complex medication regimens, screening & management of long term conditions, such as diabetes,asthma, COPD & hypertension

Deal with telephone based medication queries from patients,pharmacies & hospital

Develop and utilise prescribing skills in face to face andremote settings to further support patient care.

Provide medicines management advice to doctors, practice nurses and other health professionals to promote the safe, effective, quality and cost effective use of medicines

Run audits & design of safer prescribing systems

Review of medications for nursing & residential home patients

Manage patients & health care professionals medicinequeries

N.B - This is not an exhaustive list

We are based in a modern, purpose built building in the village of Hatfield. We have over 9700 patients and provide a range of medical services to the local community. The practice is one of the main hubs of Hatfield. We share our premises with and independent pharmacy and Community Nursing from RDASH, so it is helpful to have primary care colleagues we can collaborate with on site.

We are a friendly team who are passionate about providing high quality care and services to our patients.

5 GP Partners, 3 Salaried GPs, Physician's Assistant, 5 Practice Nurses, 2 Clinical Pharmacists, Health Care Assistants, Nurse Associates, Physiotherapists, Mental Health Nurses, receptionists and admin support staff, Reception Supervisor, Operations Manager and Business Manager.

High QOF achievement

Systm One clinical system and Accu Rx

Active member of East Doncaster PCN

Our GP Partners also have roles in the Doncaster LMC and ICB

Please refer to the job overview and in addition:

• Conduct Structured Medication Reviews (SMRs) for patients with complex polypharmacy or long-term conditions.
• Review and process acute prescription requests, ensuring safe and evidence-based prescribing.
• Action and manage hospital discharge summaries, outpatient letters and other clinical correspondence.
• Provide medicines optimisation support, including deprescribing, monitoring, and safety interventions.
• Support chronic disease reviews as part of the multidisciplinary team (e.g., hypertension, asthma, diabetes, heart failure).
• Manage patient queries relating to medicines, minor ailments and condition self-management.
• Provide prescribing advice and guidance to practice teams within your clinical competence.
• Work towards QOF, IIF and local incentive framework targets as required by the practice.
• Document all clinical work to a high standard within practice protocols and NHS information governance requirements.

• Experience of primary care clinical IT system, specifically Systm One
• Primary care and or medicines management in primary care
• Proven ability to help practices to deliver the key responsibilities
• outlined in the annual Network Contracted Enhanced Service Specification
• Evidence contribution to Quality Improvement initiatives
• Team leadership experience
• Experience of training others including non-clinicians

• Be a General Pharmaceutical Council (G Ph
  
  C) registered pharmacist
• Practising Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Hold a G Ph C Independent Prescribing qualification
• Post-registration experience - minimum three years
• Minor ailments certification

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.