Clinical Pharmacist

Job description Job responsibilities Clinical Pharmacist Job DescriptionSalary: currently being assessed, depending on skills & experience Hours: 2 days per week including a Wednesday (20 hours per week)Reporting to: Current clinical pharmacist and prescribing lead partnerLocation: Monkfield Medical Practice, Sackville House, Sackville Way, Cambourne, Cambridgeshire, CB23 6HLJob summaryThe Clinical Pharmacist at Monkfield Medical Practice will play a key role in supporting safe, effective and person-centred medicines use across the practice. The post holder will work as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team, using expert clinical knowledge to conduct long-term condition medication reviews, deliver structured and other medication reviews, and manage prescription request workflows. Alongside this, they will conduct work with the current experienced clinical pharmacist to include responding to staff queries, liaising with other services about medication, overseeing shared care, setting up and overseeing medication monitoring systems, and supporting the rest of the pharmacy team. By optimising medicines, improving patient understanding, and ensuring high-quality prescribing systems, the pharmacist will help enhance patient outcomes, reduce medicines-related risk, and support sustainable general practice operations.Main ResponsibilitiesConduct note-based, patient-facing and telephone-based long-term condition reviews whilst adjusting their relevant medications, including interpretation of relevant blood tests (training can be provided if needed). This will, with training, include prescribing for obesity in line with NICE and QOF guidelines.Undertake structured medication reviews for patients with polypharmacy, complex needs, frailty, or high-risk medicines, including titrating medications to safe levels. Undertake simpler medication reviews and new patient reviews when required.Manage prescription request tasks, including reauthorisation of repeat prescriptions and reviewing medications reaching their review dates in a safe and patient-centred way.Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge to ensure continuity of care and resolve discrepancies.Provide expert medicines information to GPs, nurses, reception staff, community pharmacists, and patients.Implement MHRA alerts, other prescription related alerts/reports, NICE guidance, local formulary recommendations, local guidelines, local shared care guidelines, and prescribing safety initiatives.Support quality improvement activity, including clinical audits, enhanced service contract needs, shared care management, QOF requirements and safer prescribing programmes.Contribute to service development, care pathway optimisation and public health initiatives.Work collaboratively with community and hospital pharmacy teams to improve continuity and reduce medicines-related harm.Work collaboratively and flexibly with the pharmacy team to ensure patient and staff needs are met, and queries are answered in a supportive and, if appropriate educational manner.

Take opportunities to educate staff and update them on important prescribing issues, knowledge gaps and alerts.