ABOUT THE CANDIDATE

You will be a qualified pharmacist with strong experience within primary care and have the following skills and qualifications:

• Completion of a degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Post-qualification experience in pharmacy (hospital, primary care or community), or working towards obtaining this.
• Qualified independent prescriber, or working towards this.
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS).
• Awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice.
• Ability to demonstrate general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas.
• Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general care plans for patients with long-term conditions.
• Ability to demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision as an individuals.
• Ability to recognise priorities when problem-solving and identify deviations from normal patterns, referring to seniors or GPs with confidence, when appropriate.
• Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies, procedures and codes of conduct.
• Ability to assist patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidance.
• Non-judgemental attitude and ability to be flexible and adaptable.
• Self-motivated with excellent communication skills.
• Understand the need for patient confidentiality.

ABOUT US

The De Parys Group’s priority is to provide the highest standard of clinical care to the 38,000 patients registered with the practice. We aim to work collaboratively with other healthcare providers and support organisations, to enable more patients to be treated in a primary care setting, closer to home. We embrace a continuous improvement ethos and strive to ensure that we are available to patients when they need a consultation. We have a strong training ethos within the practice with a team of medical and non-medical educators as well as opportunities for non-clinical staff to develop and progress.
TDPG is fortunate to have its own dispensaries at our De Parys and Bromham sites. In addition to our routine GMS services, we offer a comprehensive range of services including minor surgery, LARC provision and anticoagulation clinics.
We have high QOF achievement and excellent KPIs within the group.

Benefits include:

• NHS pension scheme.
• Proper pay and Living Wage Foundation accredited.
• Eye-care vouchers.
• Annual leave: minimum 28 days FTE, with enhancements for long service.
• Paid breaks

The De Parys Group is looking to welcome a qualified and experienced clinical pharmacist into our busy practice, to play a full and active role within our multi-disciplinary team. The role is offered on a full-time basis, working 37.5 hours per week on a fixed term contract for 14 months.

The main responsibilities of the role include:

• Clinically assessing and treating patients, using expert knowledge of medicines, for specific disease areas.
• Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines and medicine information (e.g. side-effects, dosage).
• Providing pharmaceutical medication review and health education advice to patients, by face-to-face, telephone or notes-based review, as agreed with the practice.
• Providing leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement.
• Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation and adult immunisation programmes.
• Processing specialist treatment letters.
• Supporting practice dispensary.
• Processing hospital medication discharge letters.
• Acting as a key contact, for all medication related queries.
• Supporting improvements in clinical care, through practice-based audits and implementing change.
• Running clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics.
• Conducting spirometry, child immunisation, travel vaccination, diabetic foot checks and NHS health checks, as well as other tasks, as required, on completion of appropriate training.
• Conducting care-planning, including mental health, admission avoidance schemes, and end-of-life patients.
• Reviewing daily pathology results and act on results.
• Undertaking minor ailments triage and directing patients, based on clinical need.
• Capturing relevant patient health information at all consultations including contributing to the quality outcomes framework.
• Monitoring patients with complex, long-term conditions such as hypertension, diabetes and COPD, ensuring that medication is optimised, titrated, monitored and complied with.
• Providing clinical advice and expertise on medication.
• Establishing ongoing professional relationships with individual patients.
• Liaising with other providers, such as secondary care, community pharmacy and care or nursing homes, as necessary, to ensure the safe transfer of care.
• Delivering on and/or overseeing relevant aspects of the PCN Directed Enhanced Service (DES).
• Taking a central role in the clinical aspects of shared-care protocols, clinical research with medicines and liaison with specialist pharmacists.
• Being part of a professional clinical network and having access to appropriate clinical supervision.
• Supporting the PCN clinical director as necessary.
• Managing the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process, by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates.
• Reviewing prescribing against local and national targets, and engaging with the wider prescribing team to rectify any issues.
• Carrying out structured medicines-optimisation reviews in care homes.
• Contributing to the reduction of medicine wastage within practices across the PCN.