This is an exciting opportunity to join the existing Medicines Management team at New Hayesbank Surgery. We are a member of Mid Kent PCN comprising of 7 practices. This role will be collaborating with colleagues but main workplace will be New Hayesbank Surgery.
The successful candidate will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role, taking responsibility for areas of chronic disease management and clinical medication reviews.
Ideally, the successful candidate will have a prescribing qualification.
The post is funded via the Additional Roles and Reimbursement scheme and the post holder will be enrolled on the CPPE pathway.
Main duties of the job
1. Demonstrates general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas.
2. Plans, manages, monitors, advises, and reviews general pharmaceutical care programmes for patients in core areas, including disease states / long-term conditions identified by local Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment.
3. Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision as an individual.
About us
New Hayesbank Surgery is a forward-thinking and innovative surgery based in the centre of Ashford Kent. We are registered with the CQC and proud of our "outstanding" rating. We have a large multi-disciplinary team who support the GP partners in providing the best possible care for our patients. We are also the Lead Practice for our PCN and one of our GP Partners is Clinical Director.
We are a training practice and also run a 7-day-a-week ophthalmology service which includes cataracts, wet AMD, and general ophthalmology. We also have a number of in-house clinics.
We have a successful and innovative Medicines Management Team and the successful candidate will form a part of this team.
Job responsibilities
Basis: Full-time 37.5 hours
Permanent Position
Location: New Hayesbank Surgery
Accountable to: GP Partners and Line Manager
Job Purpose:
1. Provide expertise in clinical medicines review and address public health and social needs of patients in GP practices.
2. Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review.
3. Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post-discharge.
4. Contribute to reductions in medicine-related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines-related issues.
5. Interface with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals including the promotion of the repeat dispensing service.
6. Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorization process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates.
7. Manage patients' and health care professionals' medicine queries.
8. Increase quality and safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA cycles.
9. Manage practice formularies to improve the quality, safety, and cost-effectiveness of prescribing.
10. Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety.
11. Work with primary care professionals and patients to implement NICE and other evidence-based guidelines.
12. Run clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics.
13. Contribute to multimorbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews.
14. Provide medicines information and training to Practice healthcare professionals and admin staff.
15. Review daily pathology results for patients on known medicines.
16. Act as a source of medicines information for all of the practice team and patients.
17. Undertake minor ailments triage; dealing with minor ailments and triaging patients appropriately.
18. Take part in Virtual Ward and other MDT meetings.
19. Support clinicians with care home prescribing/MARS charts.
Core Responsibilities
1. Work within the practice-based team to undertake medication reviews particularly in high-risk groups such as poly-pharmacy, substance misuse, and patients on high-risk medicines.
2. Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all prescribers within the practice.
3. Lead on changes in evidence requiring changes in prescribing across the patient population.
4. Liaise with colleagues in community pharmacy to align support for medicines adherence.
5. Support improvements in clinical care through practice-based audit and implementing change.
6. Provide prescribing advice to prescribers in practice.
7. Ensure patient safety during transfers between care providers through reconciliation of prescribed medicines.
Qualifications & Training for this Job
1. Completion of an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy, and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
2. Minimum of 2 years post-graduate experience in pharmacy, as demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
3. Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS).
4. Member of or working towards (through foundation) RPS Faculty membership.
5. May hold or be working towards a prescribing qualification.
6. May hold or be working towards a postgraduate pharmacy qualification.
Behavioural Competencies and Skills for this Job
1. Demonstrates general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas.
2. Plans, manages, monitors, advises, and reviews general pharmaceutical care programmes for patients.
3. Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Prescribing Qualification and experience.
* GCSE grade B or C in 4 subjects.
* Knowledge of Snomed code.
* IT skill and EMIS web knowledge.
Experience
* Working under pressure and to deadlines.
* Working in a confidential environment.
* Working in a customer service environment.
* Pharmacy/prescribing experience.
* Experience in 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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