Senior Clinical Practice PharmacistNHS

Job summary

Join and lead our well established and highly skilled practice employed pharmacist team. This is a permanent post, working solely for Air Balloon Surgery, and funded through the FABB PCN Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme. The post has become vacant as the existing post holder is leaving to focus on a new venture outside General Practice.

We have a long tradition of employing our own Practice Clinical Pharmacist, being one of the first in Bristol to do so. We fully recognise the value and important role this brings to the wider team. The pharmacy teams work is well established into practice pathways and working arrangements.

The role of the Senior Clinical Practice Pharmacist is well embedded as a senior clinical role within the wider practice clinical team. Leading our existing Pharmacy team, the role of the Senior Clinical Practice Pharmacist is pivotal to improving the quality of care and ensuring patient safety.

The successful candidate will have a minimum of five years post graduate experience, be an independent prescriber with primary care prescribing experience, and will have completed the Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway.

The post would be worked as full time - 37.5 hours per week over five days.

Competitive salary, negotiable depending on experience and skillset. Includes NHS Pension Scheme. One week study leave, 5.6 weeks pro rata annual leave per year plus any bank holidays, and day off on day of your birthday if it falls on a day you work.

Main duties of the job

Leadership of the Practice Pharmacy Team- ensuring the team delivers a comprehensive high-quality service to the patients and staff of the practice

Patient facing roles seeing patients and managing medication related problems and queries. Medication reviews at point of care transfer, especially for older frail, care homes and polypharmacy

Staff facing roles - providing support to general practice staff in relation to repeat prescriptions and medication queries

Quality, governance and improvement - working with the prescribing and wider practice team on safety and medicines optimisation. Leading on initiatives, medicines audit work and local projects and schemes of work

The team manage a complex and varied program of working across all aspects of medicines management. This includes day to day and more developmental and strategic work. The post holder would lead this work along with quality improvement, audit and development of services. We work closely with the ICB Clinical Pharmacist.

Regular clinical supervision with a GP partner with opportunities to grow and develop professionally.

Job description

Brief summary below - please see attached Job Description for full details

Job responsibilities

The post holder is an experienced clinical pharmacist with previous experience of working in Primary Care, who acting within their professional boundaries and as part of the wider clinical team, will develop and manage medicine management services within the practice.

The post holder will lead the multi-disciplinary pharmacy team, to meet practice service requirements for medicines management.

The postholder will manage systems and be part of the workforce relating to repeat prescribing, authorisations and reauthorisation, acute prescription request, management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing.

The post holder will lead processes and perform medication review of patients with polypharmacy especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities.

The post holder will provide leadership on medicines optimisation, leading on local ICB projects and schemes of work, quality improvement and clinical audit.

See attached Job Description for full details;

Leadership of the practice pharmacy team

Line managing the team to ensure an effective high quality service is provided

Managing the practice pharmacy service

Lead and contribute to all national and local projects, initiatives contracts and schemes.

Managing change for medicines management.

Provision of clinical services.

Running own long term conditions work

Working as part of the urgent care team

Managing patients referred by other members of the wider practice team

Medication reviews

About us

We are supportive, friendly and innovative and value team players with a can do attitude to join our close-knit team. We have an excellent track record for supporting the development of individuals in specialist posts.

4 Partners and 6 Associate (salaried) GPs

Home Visits done by Frail Care Physiotherapist

Extensively skilled nursing team, including Urgent Care Nurses and nurse prescribers

Two clinical practice pharmacists including prescribing and pharmacy technician

Extremely supportive and highly-trained Care Navigator team.

CPD well supported in-house and with external training

Modern, spacious, purpose built premises

GP Training practice

Fresh fruit, tea and coffee provided

We are a registered Park-Run Practice.

Achieved overall good CQC rating