Clinical Pharmacist

Job Overview

KIWY PCN are delighted to offer this exciting post of Clinical Pharmacist under the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme. You will be based within Woodstock Surgery joining the existing 4 pharmacists and pharmacy technician across our Primary Care Network. The successful applicant will become fully integrated within Woodstock’s primary health care team but will also be part of the wider PCN Pharmacy Team. All pharmacy staff are expected to work together as a cohesive group, sharing expertise and professional standards and supporting and advising the wider clinical team. You will be expected to undertake structured medication reviews as well as being fully involved with the day to day medication management within the practice including medicines reconciliation. You will be expected to help the PCN achieve prescribing targets for QOF, IIF and the Prescribing Incentive Scheme.

The appointed applicant will be a prescriber or be working towards prescriber status, taking full advantage of the CPPE training pathways.

Requirements

• Master Of Pharmacy Degree or the equivalent
• Current Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Proven experience in delivering clinical pharmacy services in a patient-facing health care setting ideally within primary care or urgent care.
• Strong knowledge of pharmacology, drug interactions, and clinical protocols
• Excellent communication skills for effective patient counseling and interdisciplinary collaboration.

This role will be based in Woodstock, which is 8 miles north of Oxford on the edge of the Cotswolds. It is a historic town adjacent to Blenheim Palace, home of the Duke of Marlborough and birthplace of Winston Churchill. Woodstock surgery is a mainly rural practice with about 9,600 patients, 6,000 of whom live outside the town.

We are a team-orientated, patient-focused, learning-centred practice and are seeking candidates with a pro-active approach, who are keen to embrace the opportunities and challenges of working within general practice and have a desire to work with patients.

We value experience in either, or both, of community and hospital pharmacy.

Responsibilities

• Prescribing Systems and Policies:
• To work with the GP Leads and Business Manager to review, develop and implement prescribing policies and strategies for the whole practice.

Medication Review and Optimisation:

• To respond to internal practice queries to amend prescriptions, re-authorise repeats, clarify doses, clarify products, give appropriate alternatives when availability is an issue.
• To discuss specific patient and prescribing issues (e.g. complicated regimes/polypharmacy, compliance difficulties, multiple adverse effects, medication reduction regimes) with other clinicians as necessary.
• To undertake structured medication reviews
• To discuss medication issues with patients as needed and appropriate, e.g. adverse effects/interactions, overdose/inadvertent ingestion, OTC remedies, internal queries from staff and queries from care homes.
• To complete DTA (direction to administer) forms for district nurses for GPs to authorise.

Medicines Reconciliation:

• To review secondary care requests for new medication (as communicated by discharge summaries, outpatient letters, etc.) and raise any queries with the relevant GP and discuss how to respond when inappropriate prescribing requests arise.
• To review and continue repeat medications for new patients who have just registered with the practice and suggest GP medication review where appropriate.

Medicines Information/Education:

• To monitor and inform colleagues as relevant about ongoing prescribing issues, e.g. new guidelines (national and local), new products being asked for by secondary care, manufacturing and supply problems, new prescribing restrictions or contraindications, and individual and systematic errors made by colleagues.
• To advise on cost effective prescribing and prescribing budget issues.
• To keep the prescribing folder on the practice intranet up to date, with administrative support.

Chronic Disease Medicines Management:

• According to experience and training working within the multidisciplinary team to assist with medical management of conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and asthma.

Teaching/training:

You may be asked to contribute to the training of our PCN pharmacy technician, administrators and receptionists who deal with prescriptions. More informally, we all love to learn from each other and see sharing of expertise as integral to working in our GP practice.

Confidentiality:

In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, Practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the Practice as a business organisation.  All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential. Information requested by individual members will be collated and authorised through formal channels.

Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the Practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the Practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data

Equality and Diversity:

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

• Acting in a way that recognises the importance of people’s rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practice / PCN procedures and policies, and current legislation
• Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
• Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights

Personal/Professional Development:

The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the Practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work

Quality

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the Practice and will:

• Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
• Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
• Contribute to the effectiveness of the teams by reflecting on own and teams’ activities and making suggestions/recommendations on ways to improve and enhance the teams’ performances
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients’ needs
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources

Communication:

The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

• Communicate effectively with other team members
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers
• Recognise people’s needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly

Contribution to the Implementation of Services:

The post-holder will:

• Apply Practices’ policies, standards and guidance
• Discuss with other members of the teams how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work

Pay: £47,600.00-£55,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Sick pay

Experience:

• Primary care: 2 years (required)

Licence/Certification:

• current GPhC registration (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person