Clinical Pharmacist- Prescriber/ Non-Prescriber inSouthampton inSouthampton PUBLISHED 22 OCT 2024

The post holder is an experienced Pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries. They will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. In this role they will be supported by a Senior Clinical Pharmacist and GP who will develop, manage, and mentor them.

The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will respond to daily anima queries from patients, action medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and clinic letters. They will undertake medication reviews across different disease areas.

Clinical Pharmacist- Prescriber: The post holder will be an independent prescriber and us such will be expected to work within their scope of practice and develop this scope of practice to meet the requirements in primary care.

Clinical Pharmacist- Non -Prescriber: The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a independent prescriber.

• Patient facing clinical medical reviews
• Management of medicine at discharge from hospital
• Medicines advice to practice staff and patients
• Ensuring clinical documents received within practice are actioned appropriately
• Contributes pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components
• Works with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
• Ability to demonstrate self-development through continuous professional development activity working alongside the senior clinical pharmacist to identifying areas to develop

About us

Clinical Pharmacist- Prescriber/non-Prescriber

Salary:£44,345-£53,045 per annum, FTE

Hours-Full time 37.5 hours per week or Minimum 30hrs per week

Location: Practices of Living Well PCN Southampton

Accountable to: Senior Clinical Pharmacist

Key Responsibilities:

• Review the on-going need for each medicine, review monitoring needs and take the opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation). Seeking support from senior pharmacist/GP as required.
• Supports medicines reconciliation following patient discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes. Works with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.
• Answers all medicinerelated enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients. Suggests and recommends solutions. Provides follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes that are made. Responds to daily anima eConsults, identifying any red flags and underlying serious pathology and takes appropriate action including referring to other members of the primary care team as needed.
• Works as part of the pharmacy services team ensuring that any clinical documents received within the practice are actioned appropriately, particularly those associated with medication changes and monitoring within own scope of practice.

We are looking for one individual to fill this position, either Clinical Pharmacist- Prescriber or Clinical-Non-Prescriber. Please email our recruitment and we will be able to provide you with the revelant job profile.