Clinical PharmacistinPortsmouthinPortsmouthPUBLISHED MON 17 MAR 2025

The Lighthouse Group practice is looking for an experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our existing team. We are seeking a motivated and efficient individual, who is keen to develop this exciting role to align with the new model of General Practice. The successful candidate will be an integral part of the general practice team, as well as part of a wider pharmacy network and multi-disciplinary team.

The Clinical Pharmacist will improve and enhance patients' health outcomes and the efficiency of the Primary Care Team. They will work to pro-actively transfer workload relating to medicines optimisation issues from other clinical staff to improve patient care and safety, and will support clinical staff in the long-term management of patients.

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Patient Facing Long-Term Condition Clinics

See patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma). Review the ongoing medicine plan for these patients, ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation) and make appropriate recommendations to clinicians for medicine improvement.

Patient Facing Clinical Medication Review

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for nurses and/or GP with regard to prescribing and monitoring for Practice Patients, Care Home Patients and Domiciliary Patients, to include MDT Case Conferences.

Patient Facing Medicines Support

Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.

Telephone Medicines Support

Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines. Support virtual and remote models of consultation and support including e-consultations, remote medication review and telehealth and telemedicine.

Medicine information to practice staff and patients

Respond to medicine related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients/carers with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.

Unplanned Hospital Admissions

Provide targeted support and pro-active review for vulnerable, complex patients and those at risk of admission and re-admission to secondary care

Management of Medicines at Discharge from Hospital

To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge. Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).

Signposting

Ensure that patients are timely referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc.

Repeat Prescribing

Oversee repeat prescribing, repeat dispensing, electronic prescribing and medication review systems. Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.

Risk Stratification

Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both.

Service Development

Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets). Develop specialist area(s) of interest.

Information Management

Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.

Medicines Quality Improvement

Undertake simple audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.

Medicines Safety

Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

Implementation of Local/National Guidelines and Formulary Recommendations

Agree and review Prescribing Formularies and Protocols and monitor compliance levels.

Cost Effectiveness

Support the delivery of QOF, incentive schemes, QIPP and other quality or cost effectiveness initiatives

Education and Training

Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.

Care Quality Commission

Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

Public Health

To support public health campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.

Collaborative Working Relationships

Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care, whilst working as part of an MDT

Should be proficient in communicating with relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g. ICB)

Recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary

Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality

Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality, working collaboratively and sustainably across General Practice, with ICB Colleagues, Medicines Management Team and with Community and Hospital Teams to benefit from Peer Support and ensure best Patient Care