This is an opportunity to join our team of dedicated professionals providing services to some 12,500 patients in the rural market town of Bourne, Lincolnshire. Our existing Clinical Pharmacist is sadly leaving to explore pastures new as part of her own personal development and would be happy to talk with anyone regarding this role and the opportunities it provides. Please contact the recruiting lead to arrange this. Informal visits are also welcome.
The role is practice based, managing patients face to face from your own clinical room and via the telephone.
We are a total triage practice using Accurx+ and so patients are appropriately managed to the healthcare professional best able to meet the patient need.
Assessed in August of 2023 as Outstanding by the CQC, we strive to deliver high quality, responsive care for our patients while ensuring we have high staff numbers, a great range of skills mix and administrative support systems in place to ensure this is a great place to work, even in these demanding times for General Practice.
We enjoy modern, expansive and fully compliant premises.
This is a senior post within our team attracting a salary of between £58,400 to £68,400 subject to experience. There is also an annual training grant, 35 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays and 2 study days. The post provides access to the NHS Pension scheme.
Main duties of the job
We have separated the main duties of the role into two elements; essential and desirable. Our current CP covers both elements and our new team member should do the same or there must be a willingness to train for and ultimately provide the desirable roles also.
* Non-medical prescriber (or willingness to train subject to a training support agreement)
* Previous experience in a GP setting
* Chronic Disease Management: Oversight and management of long-term conditions, sound understanding in asthma, COPD, diabetes, chronic kidney disease, atrial fibrillation, heart failure, and hypertension. This will include telephone and face to face appointments.
* Medication Safety & Governance: Keeping on top of audits, using ECLIPSE and other patient safety tools to manage care
* Ability to conduct medication reviews and Structured medication reviews (and identifying when SMRS are needed)
* Helping the team with medication queries, alternate medications and general advice
* Medical Education & Training: Providing sessions for medical students and trainee nurses.
* Knowledge of minor ailments
* Interpretation of blood tests: B12, Vitamin D, TSH, ACR (or more if able)
* Some understanding of managing contraception, pain management (non-palliative), psoriasis, eczema, acne, HRT, mental health.
* Completion of CPPE Primary Care Education Pathway (or willingness to complete it)
About us
We are a Practice with a long history of innovation and development. A total triage practice since 2014, we offer same day access for our patients which we feel is both responsive and safe. This is supported by a diverse, professional clinical team comprising GPs, ANPs, Prescribing Nurses, MSK Physios, HCAs, Wellbeing Counsellors, CPN, Social Prescribers, health and Wellbeing Coaches and our in-house ultrasound and Primary Care Surgery from our Level 3 Operating Theatre. Our GP to patient ratio is 1800 patients.
Our healthcare professionals are supported by a large administrative team who, in addition to the General Practice administration, undertake clinical workflow management, repeat prescription management, clinical Audit etc. to ensure only essential paperwork is managed by the clinical team. In terms of our Medicines Management, our CP is supported by a Dispensary Manager who is an experienced Pharmacy tech and a second Pharmacy tech as the deputy.
Our aim is to deliver the best possible care for our patients, underpinned by solid systems, high staff numbers and well-maintained premises. But we also do all we can to look after and support our team who are essential to our success and future.
Job responsibilities
The full job description is attached as an additional document.
Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility
* See patients with single or multiple medical problems, where medicines optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma, ischaemic heart disease).
* Review the ongoing need for each medicine, ensure that monitoring is up to date, and support patients to get the most benefit from their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for improvements in treatment regimes.
* Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacists, nurses and/or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
* Work with care home staff to improve the safety of medicines ordering and administration.
* Manage a caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within scope of practice and limits of competence.
* Provide patient-facing clinics within your base practice, for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.
* Provide a telephone helpline for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.
* Answer relevant medicines-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients. Suggest and recommend solutions.
* Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes, and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.
* Ensure that patients are referred to other healthcare professionals for the required level of care within an appropriate timeframe.
* Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy, in agreement with the Senior Clinical Pharmacist.
* Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Skills
* Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
* Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience.
* In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
* An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
* Familiarity with TPP System 1 Clinical System.
* Strong IT Skills including all MS systems.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
* Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients).
* Ability to work effectively independently and as a team member.
* Demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
* Safeguarding adult and children level 3.
* Basic Life support training.
* Information Governance completion.
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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