Job Description

Job Overview

Modality Partnership AWC Division has a full-time vacancy for a Clinical Pharmacist. The postholder will be a high performing Pharmacist working at Silsden Medical Practice responsible for providing pharmaceutical care to patients in a clinical setting, ensuring safe and effective medication use. We are seeking dedicated postholders to join our team and who can display our CARE values: Commitment, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. Salary for this role is 23.19 per hour/45,344.68 per annum WTE

This job is suitable for individuals who are career driven and have a passion for working in an agile manner, implementing solutions, delivering key organisational priorities and who are committed to make real changes to the health care services provided within Primary Care to improve patient care.

As an employee with us you can benefit from:

Enrolment to the NHS pension scheme

Annual leave minimum 27 days, plus 8 days bank holiday pro rata

Employee discounts and benefits scheme

Employee assistance programme (EAP)

Education and career pathways

Enhanced Family friendly policies

Flexible working

Wellbeing support and initiative

If you are interested in learning more, please read on.

Main duties of the job

The role is an all-rounded, hands-on Clinical Pharmacist role; the postholder will need to confidently evidence and utilise key skills such as effective communication, ability to 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. The postholder will work in collaboration with local divisions (including Divisional Boards) and the National Modality Business Support Team to deliver innovative ways of working to meet the strategic aims of the organisation.

The role is not a regular 9am-5pm job and is not a pure pharmacist patient facing role; the job requires innovation, flexibility, and commitment and the postholder will be required to work resourcefully as part of the team to ensure tasks are completed.

Overview of your organisation

We are one of the largest GP super-partnerships in the UK, serving over 450,000 patients and with a workforce of 1500+. We are unique, we are always looking at ways to improve our delivery of services through the implementation of new and innovative solutions that we can scale across the organisation. Your job is to work directly with key stakeholders to help us to harmonise ways of working and improve working practices to improve patient and staff satisfaction. This is a role that will equip you with a portfolio of clinical skills to make sustainable changes within Primary Care.

All employees are welcomed to enrol in our employee benefits scheme and NHS pension scheme. We are committed to developing our people through education and career pathways and who align to our organisational values of CARE.

Modality Partnership is an Equal Opportunities Employer and is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all our potential applicants in line with the Equality Act, 2010.

Please refer to the supporting documents section to retrieve the JD detailing the core responsibilities of this role.

Contribute to the daily work of the pharmacy team, working alongside the well-established team comprised of pharmacy technicians and pharmacists; supported daily by the medicines management lead and senior clinical pharmacist.

To work closely with GPs, other practice staff and members of the primary healthcare team in developing your own skills to manage patient care and support high quality, safe, cost effective, rational, and evidence-based prescribing.

Demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills, for patients within the general practice.

The post holder will demonstrate critical thinking in the clinical decision-making process.

They will work collaboratively with the general practice team to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures.

Enrol in the CPPE primary care education pathway to work towards gaining an independent prescribing qualification (https://www.cppe.ac.uk/career/pcpep/pcpep-training-pathway).

Medication reviews, computer based or clinics for more complex patients, first source of information for patients about medication.

Medication and treatment reconciliation - systems for patients transferred out of and back into the practice, assess unplanned admissions and systems to prevent further unplanned admissions.

Practice formularies maintain.

QOF - ensure data connectivity and proactive organisation to deliver maximum QOF for the practice. Regular QOF audits. Improve risk stratification of pathways and improve service delivery.

Medicine management e.g. polypharmacy.

Medicines optimisation, support joint goal setting with patients and appropriate treatment selection to support better medicines experience. Reducing waste and improving outcomes. Follow up identified patient groups targeting better concordance leading to improved outcomes.

Monitoring of long-term meds e.g. lithium/amiodarone, shared care medications and blood results.

Monitoring and managing repeat prescription wastage including patient adherence.

Optimising medication/titration e.g. HF.

Work with clinical team members on long-term conditions (Diabetes, Asthma, COPD, Depression, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Hypertension, Arthritis, Pain, Heart Failure, Shared care drug monitoring).

Manage patients with more complex long-term conditions such as "difficult" hypertension, compliance with lipid-lowering therapy.

See patients with minor ailments, common conditions as routine/emergency appointments.

Assess and issue day to day acute medication requests as appropriate.

Address day to day medication queries.

Undertake repeat medication reviews and reauthorisation as appropriate.

Review and load repeat medication for new patient registrations.

Identify and support patients where concordance issues.

Liaise with community pharmacists to solve common day to day prescribing problems like preparation availability/alternatives etc.

Liaise with community pharmacists for the setting up, monitoring, and updating of all patients on NOMAD trays.

Liaise with community nurses and prepare MARS sheets as needed and support practice anticipatory prescribing process in liaison with community nurses and Community Pharmacy.

Liaising with care homes and community nurses re dressings.

Responsibility for lithium and antipsychotic drug monitoring and review of blood results.

Review the prescribing for patients with multi-morbidity and polypharmacy.

Report and follow up patient drug safety/adverse reactions.

Support patient self-care and medicines management and concordance through education.

Support staff education and development.

Support development of local services to improve workflow within the practice.

Work with clinical team members on long-term conditions (Diabetes, Asthma, COPD, Depression, Heart failure drug titration.

See and advise patients presenting with minor ailments presenting in surgery as appropriate to skills and competences.

Work with team to implement and maintain Practice formulary in longer term.

EOL meds management.

Development: support development of local services to improve workflow within the practice.

Service advancement; deliver specific disease management clinic through personal development and independent prescribing.

NB: This job description outlines the key duties that are expected of you within the role of Business Secretariat although is not an exhaustive list. It may be amended in line with experience, business requirements and as a result of any future organisational change.

You will love this job if you have a passion for integrating clinical pharmacy skills into primary care, and you are driven to find and implement solutions to improve the day to day working environment. You will learn more because you will improve the way we work from the ground up whist working closely with leadership teams to influence service improvement. Duties will include:

If you feel this is the ideal career advancing opportunity for you and you want to rise to the challenge of this opportunity, we welcome an application for you to join our growing team of likeminded people.

Please Note: The Modality Partnership reserves the right to close this vacancy at any time during the advertising period.

Pre-employment

Vaccinations

As part of recruitment to the Modality Partnership, we will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks. We will offer support to those who may be undecided about vaccinations. Some vaccinations for certain roles are mandatory, and you will be asked to provide evidence of this where there is a mandatory requirement.

Right to work checks

All applicants invited for interview will need to prove their right to work in the UK at the interview stage.

References

References must be secured prior to beginning employment, one must be your current or most recent employer.

Employment history

You must notify us of any employment gaps of 6 weeks or more.

Person Specification:

Qualifications and Experience:

We require high performing team members to join our team with:

Qualified pharmacist PgCert Pharmacist Independent Prescribing Qualification or equivalent.

Relevant experience in a healthcare setting as a Pharmacist Relevant experience as a Pharmacist Prescriber Preferably experience in a general practice setting.

Knowledge:

Strong Math and Science Skills,

Excellent Memory

Detail-Oriented,

Solid Understanding of and Respect for Prescription Drug Laws and Regulations

Skills:

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Exceptional attention to detail

High-level customer service knowledge

Computer skills including using specialist software

Strong numerical and mathematical skills

Diplomacy, discretion and the ability to manage sensitive situations effectively

Good problem-solving ability

Strong leadership and management skills

Personal Qualities:

Demonstrable commitment to Continuous Professional Development

Flexible approach to work

Effective verbal and written communication skills

Effective time management skills to balance work and education requirements

Team player

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: 23.19 per hour

Expected hours: No more than 37.5 per week

Benefits:

Company pension Cycle to work scheme Health & wellbeing programme
Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 21/05/2025