Clinical Pharmacist Job at Full Time

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical Pharmacist Job Description

Salary: currently being assessed,
depending on skills & experience

Hours: 2 days per week including a
Wednesday (20 hours per week)

Reporting to: Current clinical pharmacist
and prescribing lead partner

Location: Monkfield Medical Practice,
Sackville House, Sackville Way, Cambourne, Cambridgeshire, CB23 6HL

Job summary

The Clinical Pharmacist at
Monkfield Medical Practice will play a key role in supporting safe, effective
and person-centred medicines use across the practice. The post holder will work
as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team, using expert clinical
knowledge to conduct long-term condition medication reviews, deliver structured
and other medication reviews, and manage prescription request workflows.
Alongside this, they will conduct work with the current experienced clinical
pharmacist to include responding to staff queries, liaising with other services
about medication, overseeing shared care, setting up and overseeing medication
monitoring systems, and supporting the rest of the pharmacy team. By optimising
medicines, improving patient understanding, and ensuring high-quality
prescribing systems, the pharmacist will help enhance patient outcomes, reduce
medicines-related risk, and support sustainable general practice operations.

Main Responsibilities

Conduct note-based, patient-facing
and telephone-based long-term condition reviews whilst adjusting their relevant
medications, including interpretation of relevant blood tests (training can be
provided if needed). This will, with training, include prescribing for obesity
in line with NICE and QOF guidelines.

Undertake structured
medication reviews for patients with polypharmacy, complex needs, frailty, or
high-risk medicines, including titrating medications to safe levels. Undertake
simpler medication reviews and new patient reviews when required.

Manage prescription request
tasks, including reauthorisation of repeat prescriptions and reviewing
medications reaching their review dates in a safe and patient-centred way.

Reconcile medicines following
hospital discharge to ensure continuity of care and resolve discrepancies.

Provide expert medicines
information to GPs, nurses, reception staff, community pharmacists, and
patients.

Implement MHRA alerts, other
prescription related alerts/reports, NICE guidance, local formulary
recommendations, local guidelines, local shared care guidelines, and
prescribing safety initiatives.

Support quality improvement
activity, including clinical audits, enhanced service contract needs, shared
care management, QOF requirements and safer prescribing programmes.

Contribute to service
development, care pathway optimisation and public health initiatives.

Work collaboratively with
community and hospital pharmacy teams to improve continuity and reduce
medicines-related harm.

Work collaboratively and
flexibly with the pharmacy team to ensure patient and staff needs are met, and
queries are answered in a supportive and, if appropriate educational manner.

Take opportunities to educate
staff and update them on important prescribing issues, knowledge gaps and
alerts.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualifications
• MPharm degree or equivalent and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Independent Prescribing (IP) qualification.
• Evidence of ongoing Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
• Up to date with all mandatory training including safeguarding level 3.

Desirable

• Qualifications & Training
• Additional training in long term condition management (e.g., hypertension, diabetes, asthma).

Experience

Essential

• Experience
• Experience managing medicines in primary care, hospital or community pharmacy settings.
• Experience conducting medication reviews and supporting long term condition management.

Desirable

• At least two years post qualification experience as a pharmacist
• Experience working within a GP practice or Primary Care Network (PCN).
• Experience delivering structured medication reviews.
• Experience supporting QOF, enhanced services or other quality frameworks.
• Ability to interpret blood tests relevant to long term condition medications (e.g., hypertension, CKD, heart failure, diabetes).

Skills & Competencies

Essential

• Excellent clinical knowledge of medicines, therapeutic monitoring and prescribing principles.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with patients and colleagues.
• Ability to analyse data, conduct audits and contribute to quality improvement.
• Competent IT skills, including clinical systems.
• Ability to prioritise workload, work independently and as part of a team.
• Able to follow reviews of blood tests where clear guidelines for results e.g. from BNF or local shared care guidelines.

Desirable

• Experience with workflow optimisation or medicines safety improvement.
• Ability to run condition specific clinics within scope of competence.
• Experience supervising pharmacy technicians, trainees or students.

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Motivated, proactive, keen to learn and develop, and patient focused.
• Able to work calmly under pressure in a busy practice environment.
• Sensitive, empathetic and able to handle confidential information professionally.

Desirable

• Interest in service development and quality improvement.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Monkfield Medical Practice

Address

Sackville Way

Great Cambourne

Cambridge

CB23 6HL

United Kingdom

Employer’s website

https://www.monkfieldpractice.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)