Experienced GP Pharmacist NMP - Harford Health Centre

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated experienced general Practice Pharmacist who is committed to developing their knowledge andskills to improve patient care.

The Practice-based Clinical Pharmacist will improve the quality and safety of care offered to patients of Harford Health Centre.

They will have regular contact with patients and will reduce the workload of GP prescribers in the practice by performing structured medication reviews. Theywill also support the management of patients with long-term conditions by reviewing repeat medication requests.

They will co-ordinate prescribers at the practice to ensure that appropriate medication is prescribed, ensuring that income and dispensary profit is maintained whilst fulfilling the requirements of CCG and locality initiatives.

The Clinical Pharmacist will develop and manage medicines optimisation services within primary care.

The key aims for the clinical pharmacist are:

To reduce the medicines related workload on doctors

Increase safety and quality of prescribed medicines

Provide support on medicines related issues to the whole practice team

Be a point of contact for patients regarding medicines queries

A senior advisory role in the day today running of the dispensary

They should support the following clinical work:

Clinical Medication Review

Chronic Disease Management (for example, managing hypertension/Type 2 Diabetes/Asthma/COPD patients,polypharmacy review)

Use appropriate CCG provided clinical templates within the EMIS Web Clinical System

Medicines reconciliation on transfer between care providers

They should also support the following practice development work:

Focusing on QoF Domains, improving disease registers

Prescribing Safety, Clinical audit,Local Enhanced Services support

Lead on prescription management(systems and processes, ensuring monitoring is being done, supporting dispensary & clerical (repeat prescription) staff)

Harford Health Centre is located in apurpose built health centre building. This is an exciting opportunity to join aforward thinking modern General Practice. We are a busy practice,dispensing around 11,000 items per month. We have a list size of 10000 patients which will be increasing over the coming years as new residences are built inour locality.

The Practice-based Clinical Pharmacist will improve the quality and safety of care offered to patients of Harford Health Centre. They will have regular contact with patients and will reduce the workload of GP prescribers in the practice by performing structured medication reviews. They will also support the management of patients withlong-term conditions by reviewing repeat medication requests.

The successful candidate will work as part of a multidisciplinary teamto manage medicines on transfer of care (hospital discharge) and will use systems for safer prescribing including Eclipse. They will perform face-to-face medication reviews of patients with polypharmacy;especially for those with frailty and/or with multiple co-morbidities. Theywill undertake face-to-face reviews of patients with specific long term conditions that fall within their competency. They will provide leadership on quality improvement and clinical audit, as well as managing aspects of medicines safetyand antibiotic stewardship.

They will co-ordinate prescribers atthe practice to ensure that appropriate medication is prescribed, ensuring that income and dispensary profit is maintained whilst fulfilling the requirements of CCG and locality initiatives.

• Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
• Registered with GPhC
• Member of RPS
• Postgraduate knowledge through a Postgraduate Diploma and qualifications (e.g. clinical, community, therapeutics) or equivalent.
• Independent prescriber status

• Additional qualification in chronic disease or minor ailments would be advantageous.
• Experience in medication reviews and basic clinical skills.
• A community or CCG background who have experience with drug budgets and switches.

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.