Clinical Pharmacist - Cranbrook

Main Duties

Work within clinical competencies as part of a multi disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management, offer face to face structured medication reviews, manage long term conditions, handle medicines on transfer of care, support safer prescribing systems, manage repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisations, handle acute prescription requests, and address both public health and social care needs of patients in the GP practices that make up the PCN. Perform face to face medication reviews for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple comorbidities. Provide leadership on quality improvement, clinical audit and aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework. Support development toward becoming a non medical prescriber where not already qualified.

Person Specification Qualifications

• Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Demonstrates an understanding of and conforms to relevant standards of practice.
• Follows professional and organisational policies and procedures relating to performance management.
• Clinical Diploma.

Experience

• Minimum of two years experience as a pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
• Experience and an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long term conditions likely to be seen in general practice.
• Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams and community groups.
• Experience of partnership and collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations.

Knowledge and Skills

• Minimum of 2 years post qualifying experience.
• Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social, economic and environmental factors and their impact on communities.
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
• Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, e mail and the internet to create simple plans and reports.
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
• Able to gain acceptance for recommendations and influence, motivate, persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations or agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers.
• Able to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy and protocol.
• Understand the principles of research governance.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.