Pendeen Surgery in Ross on Wye is looking for a Clinical Pharmacist to join its friendly team.
Part-time 30 hours per week
We are seeking an experienced enthusiastic Clinical Pharmacist to replace our current Clinical Pharmacist who is leaving to take a career break.
Salary depending on experience (Band 7/8a)
Main duties of the job
* The post holder will work within their clinical competencies to provide specialist pharmaceutical support to the Practice's clinical team to improve care and support safe and effective prescribing.
* The role will involve providing patient-facing services either via face-to-face or telephone consultations and will undertake chronic disease management, repeat prescription management, and structured medication reviews.
* The post holder will need to be proactively involved in quality improvement and audit as well as managing some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF).
About us
Pendeen Surgery is a busy market town GP Practice with just under 9000 patients. At Pendeen Surgery, we have an excellent group of clinical and admin individuals who enjoy working alongside each other. Primary Care has seen many challenges in recent years, and our team is always supportive and positive towards one another.
We are a training Practice with three GP trainers (Dr Das, Dr Boughen, and Dr Thurgood). We use EMIS Web and Docman clinical systems, along with Accurx and Lexacom ECHO. We have consistently been rated as Good by CQC and are very high QOF achievers.
We are part of the South and West Primary Care Network (Herefordshire). Currently, our Extended Access cover is provided by Taurus Healthcare with appointments in the evenings and at the weekends. From 1st April 2025, the Practice will be covering the Extended Access at the Surgery rather than at PCN locations. We also have Herefordshire Remote Health (HRH) virtual appointments during the day which is also run by Taurus Healthcare.
The surgery is situated just 5 minutes out of town adjacent to Dean Hill Park and a stone's throw from the Community Hospital.
Job responsibilities
* Clinical medication reviews for patients with single or multiple long-term conditions where medicines optimisation is required.
* To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals or intermediate care and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post-discharge and to reduce the risk of readmission.
* To be involved in multidisciplinary clinical meetings at the Practice, where appropriate.
* To manage repeat prescription requests, resolving queries where possible within the scope of practice. To ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.
* Implement changes to medicines in line with MHRA alerts, product withdrawal or shortage, and other local or national guidance.
* To maintain full and complete records of all patient contacts using appropriate clinical templates and coding.
* To undertake a proactive role in audit and quality improvement implementing recommendations where appropriate.
* Provide independent information to patients with regard to medicines and prescribing changes, initiating further support from other healthcare professionals where appropriate.
* Participate in review and setting of policies relating to medicines management and prescribing and help ensure the Practice prescribes in accordance with local guidelines and formulary.
* To identify areas of clinical risk at Practice level and make recommendations to support the introduction of new working practices that will optimise the quality of prescribing and make more efficient use of Practice resources.
* To maintain own clinical and professional competence and be responsible for own continuous professional development.
* Work with the Clinical Team to ensure full compliance with Care Quality Commission standards for safe and effective care.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* - Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
* - Holder of GPhC Independent Prescribing qualification or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification
* - Completion of CPPE Primary Care Pathway or willing to work towards it
* - Experience of working in Primary Care
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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