Clinical Pharmacist- South Bucks Primary Care Network

We are looking for someone enthusiastic about providing high quality care to our patients and becoming an integral part of our growing clinical pharmacy team. The Clinical Pharmacist will be a practice based patient facing role with plenty of opportunity to utilise your clinical skills to improve the health of the local community; this will include managing long-term conditions, supporting hospital discharge prescribing arrangements, providing specific advice for those on multiple medications, clinical audits to improve patient care, and supporting the GP practices involved to develop the clinical pharmacist role. The post holder will benefit from :

• Regular supervision from a senior pharmacist
• Opportunities to develop their clinical practice
• Support to enrol in and complete the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway
• Progressing to achieving their independent prescribing qualification
• Being part of a friendly and forward thinking PCN team., Work as part of a multidisciplinary 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 areas of chronic disease management and undertake structured medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex poly-pharmacy.
• Develop and manage a medicines management plan and deliver patient services as determined by Network policy and local and national guidance.
• Maximize cost-effective prescribing and improve the quality of patient
• Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients in the PCNs practices and to help tackling inequalities.
• Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across Primary Care Networks 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.
  
  Essential
• Masters Degree in Pharmacy MPharm or equivalent
• Registered with GPhC
Experience Essential
• Member of RPS
• Specialist knowledge through a Postgraduate Diploma and qualifications eg clinical community therapeutics or equivalent
• Evidence of recent and relevant Continuing Professional Development
• At least 2 years post registration experience in a hospital community or general practice setting
• Experience of undertaking medication or medicine use reviews and patient counselling
Desirable
• Independent prescriber status or a commitment to undertake the course
  
  FedBucks is a not-for-profit GP federation of 47 GP practices covering a population of over 500,000 patients across Buckinghamshire.
We began in 2016 and now employ around 300 members of staff at our head office site, and across our planned and unplanned care services. As a GP Federation and Social Enterprise, we are proud to represent our member practices and to champion primary care by working with local general practice and system partners in the provision of community-based healthcare services. We are dedicated to providing safe and compassionate care to our patients across our range of planned and unplanned healthcare services in Buckinghamshire and believe in continuous commitment to quality service delivery and positive patient outcomes. Patients are at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves in our purpose when enabling excellent patient care and supporting general practice.