Job summary
St Johns House Medical Centre, Worcester is looking for a committed dynamic enthusiastic pharmacist to join our practice team as we look to grow our team. Always trying to improve patient care and staff work life balance.
Main duties of the job
The Role
We are a large practice, working from purpose builtpremises with a well-established multidisciplinary team, providing primary care services to 13,700 patients.
We have enjoyed the benefit of employing aclinical pharmacist for the last six years and recognise the expanding role ofpharmacists in primary care. Weencourage and support career progression if desired.
The clinical team meets daily over coffee. There is good team ethos and clinical support.
Key responsibilities will involve:
Working closely with the GPs to resolve day today medicine issues
Working closely with the practice clinicalpharmacist
Managing and prescribing for long termconditions in clinics
Working closely with ANPs and practice nurses
Reviewing and advising patients on complexmedication regimes
Carrying out face to face or telephone appointmentswith patients
Reconciling medicines at interface of care, mostcommonly discharged from hospital. Toinclude identifying any unexplained changes and arranging follow up
Undertaking partly a medicines managementrole. Manage the repeat prescribingauthorisation process by renewing medication requests, medicines reaching reviewdates and medicines queries
About us
The Benefits
Excellent working environment
Inhouse CPD in addition to study leave
Aiming for longer appointments for complex patients to improve care and reduce time pressure on clinicians
Protected time for role development or special interest development if desired
Flexibility for work/life balance, designing work around other commitments
Job description
Job responsibilities
ClinicalResponsibilities:
Thepost-holder is expected to take due note of and act in accordance with thestandards of clinical governance that are agreed within the practice. Anyconcerns should be brought to the attention of the partners as soon aspracticable.
Inaccordance with the practice timetable, the post-holder will make him/herselfavailable to undertake a variety of duties including: surgery consultations,telephone consultations and queries, checking andsigning repeat prescriptions, taking action on electronic prescriptionrequests, and dealing with queries,paperwork and correspondence, (including electronic correspondence), dealingwith patient test results and referral letters, paperwork andother correspondence in a timely fashion
Makeprofessional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whetherself-referred or referred from other health care workers
Assessthe health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosedproblems
Screenpatients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness
Inconsultation with patients and in line with current practice disease managementprotocols, develop care plans for health
Providecounselling and health education
Admitor discharge patients to and from the caseload and refer to other careproviders as appropriate
Recordclear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards, primarily byuse of the computer system and complete the clinical system clinical templatesas appropriate
Collectand use data for audit purposes
Compileand issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoidinghand-written prescriptions whenever possible)
Prescribein accordance with the practice standards and locally agreed or nationalguidelines whenever this is clinically appropriate
Ingeneral the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties andresponsibilities associated with a Pharmacist working within primary care.
Other ResponsibilitiesWithin the Practice:
Awarenessof and compliance with all relevant policies/guidelines including, but notlimited to, prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety,QOF, CQC
Acommitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based bestpractice
Contributeto evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation
Contributeto the development of computer-based patient records
Contributeto the summarising of patient records and Read-Coding patient data
Attendtraining and events organised by the practice or other agencies, whereappropriate CPR training. This includes clinical and non-clinical trainingand events.
Participatein practice meetings when requested
Provideinformation when reasonably requested by the practice manager to ensure thatall personnel and other records are accurate hepatitis status
Tomeet all deadlines for audits and written returns so that the practice meetsquality standards and receives the designated funding (QOF, LES, DES etc.)
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. RPSGB Qualified
2. DBS Clearance
3. Member of approved medical defence organisation
Desirable
4. Independent Prescriber
Experience
Essential
5. Sound knowledge of QOF requirements, NICE guidelines etc. and commitment to deliver quality service to patients
6. Confident in making decisions, managing own workload and delegating appropriately
7. Good record keeping and communication skills
Desirable
8. Specific interest in a medical area eg. HRT, Women's Health, Diabetes, Respiratory etc.