The Avenue Surgery is seeking an enthusiastic and forward-thinking clinical pharmacist to join our like-minded team. The successful individual will play an important role in working with the current pharmacy team to ensure excellent standards of repeat prescribing, medication reviews, medicine optimisation, and contributing to improving the quality of care to our practice patient population. The pharmacist will be in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
The individual will be required to enrol and complete the PCCE pathway and will be supported to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber (if not already qualified).
Main Duties of the Job
Primary duties include:
1. Patient-facing clinics dealing with LTC, clinical medication review, care home medication, and domiciliary medication reviews.
2. Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments and patient medicines support.
3. Management of medication at discharge for hospital, review of unplanned hospital admissions.
4. Repeat prescribing, risk stratification, service development, and medicines safety.
5. Ensuring that all local and national guidelines are implemented and formulary recommendations are followed.
About Us
The Avenue Surgery is a non-dispensing, training practice, caring for approximately 18,500 patients in and around the semi-rural town of Warminster, Wiltshire, which is within an easy commute to the cities of Bath and Salisbury.
The practice is led by 8 GP partners and a hardworking team of both clinical and administration staff. The team is very committed to the surgery vision to provide a service that works with, and for, the community to meet the widest range of care, health promotion, and education for our patients and staff members.
Job Summary
The post holder is a pharmacist who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside the pharmacy team within the practice. In this role, they will be supported by the senior GP partner prescribing lead.
The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. They will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.
The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patients in the practice.
The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
The post holder will ensure that the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare, and help manage workload. The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies, so it requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within the practice.
The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber.
Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility
1. Patient-facing long-term condition clinics.
2. Review the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs, and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines, making appropriate recommendations to GPs for medicine improvement including IIF/QOF requirements.
3. Patient-facing clinical medication review.
4. Work with the care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
5. Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments.
6. Provide patient-facing clinics/telephone support for those with questions, queries, or concerns about their medicines in the practice.
7. Unplanned hospital admissions and management of medicines at discharge from hospital.
8. Repeat prescribing, including producing and implementing a practice repeat prescribing policy.
9. Education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
10. Support public health campaigns.
Person Specification
Experience
* Have experience and an awareness of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
* Experience at a high level of competency with computers.
* Experience with working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
* Previous experience working within a GP environment.
* Working knowledge of TPP Systemone computer system.
Qualifications
* Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
* Enroll and complete the PCCE pathway as a PCN requirement.
* Minimum of 2 years experience as a pharmacist, demonstrating within a practice portfolio.
* May hold or be willing to work towards an independent prescribing qualification.
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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