Job Description

The Leeds Road Practice has an exciting opportunity to expand our pharmacy team. We are looking for an enthusiastic clinical pharmacist to join our established team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.

The Leeds Road Practice has now been established for 50 years supporting the care of our patients across South Harrogate and rural district. We support a population of over 15,000 patients and provide care across multiple sites. The new role would join our existing team of practice and PCN based pharmacists and technicians as well as our multidisciplinary team of GPs, ACPs (nurse and paramedic), Nurses, HCAs, and phlebotomists. We support three large local care homes specialising in patients living with dementia. We are a dispensing practice providing medication to our patients living in the rural locality. We are a training practice supporting registrars, medical students and trainee pharmacists.

This role is Practice based rather than PCN based and primarily based at our Leeds Road site on the 36 bus route or free parking and in close proximity to the Hornbeam train station.

Job Purpose

The role of the clinical pharmacist in primary care is changing rapidly. The provision of a prescription is the single most common outcome from a consultation. Medicine monitoring and medicines safety has risen exponentially over recent years and combined with the complexity of those living with multiple long term conditions and frailty means clinical pharmacy is a core part of general practice.

Primary care needs to be ambitious to pro-actively help patients stay safe, well and out of hospital as well as ensuring that general practice remains resilient in their ability to provide the increasing range of services.

Key Responsibilities

The following describes the key responsibilities that the post-holder will deliver and/or work towards delivering with supported and on-going development.

Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas. Take responsibility for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities Be a prescriber, or be willing to undertake training to become a prescriber, and work with and alongside the general practice team Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients to help in tackle inequality Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the quality and outcomes framework (QoF) and enhanced services Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self care Have a leadership role in supporting further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across neighbouring practices and the wider health and social care system Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties), liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation To provide all clinical aspects of safe prescribing; Long term condition and medication reauthorisation, clinical audit, practice research and governance Share outcomes of prescribing, clinical, service and patient outcomes audits within our practice and across the locality in order to drive service and practice improvement To respond to and act on MHRA drug alerts, implementing and communicating any medication changes required as a result To monitor medicines and prescribing expenditure at practice level and propose efficiencies to ensure delivery within budget. Be part of a professional clinical network and have access to appropriate clinical supervision.
Pharmacists with a range of skills and experience from all sectors are encouraged to apply. We have established experience to support the right candidate from their early career. The CPPE General Practice pathway and independent prescribing qualifications are available.

Full or Part Time

Salary depending on experience

NHS Pension

5 weeks annual leave plus pro rata bank holidays

No weekends or bank holiday shifts

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: 37,500.00-54,710.00 per year

Work Location: In person