Clinical Pharmacist

The post holder is a pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a multidisciplinary team in the PCN. In this role they will be supported by a senior clinical pharmacist who will support, develop, manage, and mentor them. The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy. The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patient in the GP practice (s). The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services. The post holder will ensure that the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare, and help manage workload. The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice. The candidate should have completed the 18month CPPE training programme Clinical Pharmacist in GP or be willing to undertake the training programme. The post holder if not already a nonmedical prescriber will be supported to develop their role to become a nonmedical prescriber and development process once they qualify. Job description Job responsibilities The post holder is a pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a multidisciplinary team in the PCN. In this role they will be supported by a senior clinical pharmacist who will support, develop, manage, and mentor them. The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy. The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patient in the GP practice (s). The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services. The post holder will ensure that the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare, and help manage workload. The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice. The candidate should have completed the 18month CPPE training programme Clinical Pharmacist in GP or be willing to undertake the training programme. The post holder if not already a nonmedical prescriber will be supported to develop their role to become a nonmedical prescriber and development process once they qualify.