# Clinical Pharmacist **Company**: The Barkantine Practice **Location**: London **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: part-time **Salary**: Negotiable **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/A2743-26-0010?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_534c5c8e-542 ## Description We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and dynamic Clinical Pharmacist to be part of our Practice team. As a Clinical Pharmacist you will be responsible for working with and assisting practice teams in providing and supporting high quality clinical care for acute and chronic problems. Implementing effective medicine management; identifying areas for improvement and initiating and managing change. This is a 30-hour, permanent position for someone with a Pharmacy degree and minimum 5 years post-qualification experience. The successful candidate must be willing to enrol on the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway or submit evidence of exemption though past training and experience. **Main duties of the job** - Be able to work flexibly and supportively in a general practice setting alongside other clinicians, particularly existing Clinical Pharmacist colleagues. - Develop and manage a medicines management plan and deliver patient services as determined by practice policy and local and national guidance. - Help build the medicines management approach in designated practices across the Network, including delivery of training and advice and expertise to other Primary Care colleagues, to maximise cost-effective prescribing and improve the quality of patient care. - To identify, develop and promote quality improvements in medicines management and pharmaceutical understanding across community pharmacy & GP practices ensuring that best practice is adopted. - To develop and support new ways of working and workflow redesign linked to the safe, effective, high quality, use of medicines. by providing professional specialist medicines management. **Job responsibilities** - Act as a contact for medicines related issues within practice and contribute pharmaceutical expertise to clinical decisions. - To contribute to discharge advice, note reconciliation, medication reviews and reauthorisations. - To contribute to the work of delivering high quality care and effective and efficient medicine management for patients with chronic diseases. - To undertake risk assessment/management and ensure compliance with medicines legislation and bring to the attention to all prescribers within the practice any changes to prescribing laws/guidelines. - Liaise with prescribing colleagues in primary and secondary care to ensure consistency with borough wide prescribing strategies. - To ensure that prescriptions are up to date, revised and changed according to patient needs or changing condition, acting promptly on requests from outside agencies. - To liaise with secondary care regarding any medication queries relating to patients and amend patient records accordingly inc. medication specification in hospital letters. - To carry out medication reviews of patients on repeat medicines and amend prescriptions according to patient needs or changing conditions - To be a first source of information for patients about medicines. - To act on any drug alerts and amend medication accordingly in consultation with the patient. - To ensure all practice staff have access to up-to-date medicines information providing regular updating on clinical pathways, new medicines and NICE recommendations and guidelines. - To work with the CCG medicines management team to agree target areas for the practice and amend medication accordingly in consultation with patients. - To promote and lead medicines management campaigns to reduce medicines waste. - To carry out prescribing audits as required and liaise with colleagues at CCG. - Attend and participate in any Practice meetings and Network MDTs. - To maintain accurate computerised records. - Communicating effectively with patients and carers and recognising their needs for alternative methods of communication. - To undertake home visits and minor ailments work when required. - To undertake any other duties commensurate to the role, particularly supporting new ways of working inc. telephone triage and remote system working. - Attend all relevant and required training and comply with Network arrangements for continuing professional development ## Skills ### Required - Pharmacy degree - Independent prescriber - Registered Pharmacist on GPhC Register --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/A2743-26-0010?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)