Nottinghamwest PCN covers 12 practices with a well-established clinical pharmacy team in practice as well as a pharmacist lead cardiovascular service, prescribing for patients in hypertension and lipids, across the PCN.
You will be an experienced Pharmacist who will act within their professional boundaries supporting and working alongside a team of Pharmacists in General Practice and supported by a Neighbourhood Lead. Initially you will be based within the Eastwood Neighbourhood, however PCN staff can be given the opportunity to cover different practices or the pharmacy cardiology team depending on the need of the service.
Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role, you will be responsible for chronic disease management, undertaking clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.
You will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries by supporting the repeat prescriptions system, dealing with acute prescription requests, and medicine reconciliation and support the QOF and IIF targets.
Main duties of the job
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
* Work as a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role
* Provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries
* Provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement
KEY REQUIREMENTS
* Master's degree in Pharmacy (MPharm)
* Mandatory professional registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
* Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience
* Knowledge and understanding of the nature of GP Practices
About us
PICS is the employer for this role. We collaborate with patients and partners to design and deliver clinically robust health and social care solutions through Community Services, Out of Hospital Services, GP Practices, and Primary Care Networks. Find out more about us: http://picsnhs.org.uk/.
Benefits of working for PICS
We offer a comprehensive package which includes:
* NHS Pension 2015 Scheme (subject to eligibility)
* Alternative government-based scheme (subject to eligibility)
* Generous annual leave entitlement which references NHS Agenda for Change and recognises previous NHS service, starting 35 days pro rata (inc bank holidays)
* Competitive leave entitlement that includes maternity, paternity and adoption leave, study leave allowance, and sickness provisions
* Access to education and training opportunities, depending on your role (CPPE Pharmacy, NHS England Roadmap for First Contact Practitioners, apprenticeship schemes, support professional development)
* Working in a multi-disciplinary team with support from a wide variety of professionals
* A flexible approach to a work-life balance
* Cycle to work scheme (subject to eligibility)
* Access to Blue Light Card scheme
* All staff events and conferences
* Free parking across many sites
* Personalised induction into the company and job role
Job responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Neighbourhood team working and Management of neighbourhood technicians
* To manage and support the neighbourhood PCN technicians in their development and completion of the CPPE primary care education pathway and delivery of key PCN workstreams, including IIF targets.
* Face to face support for the technician within the neighbourhood and close working with other PCN pharmacists within the neighbourhood and wider PCN.
* See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g., COPD, asthma). 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 (i.e., medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement.
Patient facing clinical medication review
* Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.
* Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments
* Managing caseload for patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence. Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate.
Patient facing medicines support
* Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines in the practice.
Telephone medicines support
* Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines.
Medicine information to practice staff and patients
* Answers all medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g., community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.
Unplanned hospital admissions
* Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups.
Management of medicines at discharge from hospital
* To 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.
Signposting
* Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate Healthcare Professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time e.g., pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc.
Repeat prescribing
* Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy. Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review. Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.
Information management
* Analyse, interpret, and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.
* Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations
* Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economy's RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs).
Education and training
* Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
Care Quality Commission
* Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
Public health
* To support public health campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Please provide details of your CPD, using examples where necessary.
* Please provide your registration number of your GPhC professional registration.
Personal Qualities
* Please provide details for why you would be a great fit for this role and why you have decided to apply.
Knowledge and skills
* Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your knowledge and skills are suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.
Experience
* Please provide detailed information of how you feel that your experience is suitable for this role; please provide examples to support your application referring to the job description and person specification for guidance.
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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