Clinical Pharmacist – GP Surgery Job Vacancy in South Tyneside, England, UK

Job summary

Solent GP Surgery care for a total of 20,000 patients within Southampton City with sites at Royal South Hants Hospital, Portswood and Adelaide Health Centre. We work alongside our Homeless Healthcare Team who currently have 400 patients registered with them.

We have an established medicines team consisting of Clinical Pharmacists, a Primary Care Network Pharmacist, Medicines Manager and prescription clerks.

We’d really welcome a Clinical Pharmacist who is passionate about putting patient’s first, loves working as part of a multidisciplinary team and really values learning and development. The successful candidate will benefit from support and supervision from a GP Prescribing Lead, other Pharmacists within PCN, the medicines management team at the CCG and a Trust Pharmacy team with a Chief Pharmacist

The Clinical Pharmacist will provide remote or face to face medication reviews, review of patients with polypharmacy and multiple comorbidities and to assist in the management of patients with long term conditions, medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, repeat prescription authorisation, and reauthorisation, as well as acute prescription requests.

The successful candidate will provide leadership on quality improvement and clinical audit, learn to co-ordinate some aspects of the Quality Outcome Framework (QOF)/ Primary Care Network (PCN) specifications and manage long-term conditions. Ideally, we would like to recruit someone who is already a non-medical prescriber.

Main duties of the job

Review patient requests for repeat prescriptions and review medicines reaching their review dates; issue prescriptions and make necessary changes as an independent prescriber, and ensure patients are booked in for necessary monitoring tests where required.

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients with multi-morbidity and poly-pharmacy and implement own prescribing changes (as an independent prescriber) and order relevant monitoring tests.

Implementing medication changes detailed on discharge summaries. Liaising with Consultants and GPs as appropriate

Making changes to medication following updated guidance or safety alerts being received and advising both patients and clinical staff on the change.

Actively participate in clinical audit through data collection to ensure policies and guidelines are adhered to.

Independently assesses patients for their eligibility for a medicines compliance device from a community pharmacy using professional judgement and conducting a medication review.

Play an active part in the development and implementation of evidence based policies and guidelines. Evidence based guidance development maximises the benefit of medicines to patients, controls cost and minimises risk.

Independently and proactively provide support and advice to GPs on the analysis and monitoring of prescribing trends including the interpretation of PACT data.

About us

Make a difference with us

If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you’re looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.

To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access

To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work

To deliver the best value for money

Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation — guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.

In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.

We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.

We encourage and support our staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against Covid-19.