Clinical Pharmacist

About the Role

Mount Farm Surgery is looking to welcome a qualified and experienced clinical pharmacist into our busy practice, to play a full and active role within our multi-disciplinary team. The role is offered on a full-time basis, Monday-Friday.

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient‑facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas
• Be a prescriber, or completing training to become a prescriber, and work with and alongside the general practice team
• Be involved in the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple co‑morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP – Stop Over Medication Programme)
• Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the organisation and to help in tackling inequalities
• Provide leadership on person‑centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services
• Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self‑care
• Have a leadership role in supporting further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help to improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help to manage general practice workload
• Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across the wider health and social care system
• Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties), liaison with community pharmacists, and anticoagulation
• Act as the point of contact for medicine related matters, establishing positive working relationships
• Consult patients within defined levels of competence and independently prescribe acute and repeat medication
• Receive referrals and directed patients from triage services and other clinicians
• Receive and resolve medicines queries from patients and other staff
• Provide medication review services for patients in the practice and during domiciliary visits to the local care homes if required
• Manage a caseload of complex patients
• Manage a therapeutic drug monitoring system and the recall of patients taking high risk drugs, i.e., anticoagulants, anticonvulsants and DMARDs, etc.
• Deliver long term condition clinics and home visits, particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes, and prescribe accordingly
• Provide pharmaceutical consultations to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team
• Review medications for newly registered patients
• Improve patient and carer understanding of confidence in and compliance with their medication
• Maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
• Encourage cost‑effective prescribing throughout the organisation
• Implement and embed a robust repeat prescribing system
• Provide advice and answer medication related queries from patients and staff
• Organise and oversee the organisation’s medicines optimisation systems, including the repeat prescribing and medication review systems
• Improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education, to improve performance against NICE standards and clinical and prescribing guidance
• Develop yourself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training and service redesign activities
• Ensure appropriate supervision of safe storage, rotation and disposal of vaccines and drugs. Apply infection‑control measures within the practice according to local…