We are looking for a motivated, forward-thinking Pharmacist to join the multi-disciplinary team at St Andrews Surgery. The practice team consists of 3 GP partners, 1 Clinical Pharmacist, 3 Practice Nurses, 3 Health Care Assistants, and a very supportive administration and reception team.
The role will be varied – answering medication queries; managing repeat prescription authorisations and re-authorisations; undertaking medicines reconciliation and various other aspects of medicines management. You will also provide prescribing advice and support to the practice clinical team, which will include undertaking audits, developing protocols, providing feedback to prescribers, and monitoring improvements.
As part of your role, you will also support the practice team with chronic disease management, shared care, and anticoagulation medication processes as well as supporting the medication processes within nursing homes.
We believe this to be an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacist who would like to apply their skills to ensure safe and efficient prescribing in general practice. We would always welcome informal visits to meet the practice team.
Main duties of the job
1. See patients in multi-morbidity clinics and in partnership with primary healthcare colleagues and implement improvements to patients’ medicines, including de-prescribing.
2. Manage own caseload and run long-term condition clinics where medicines have a large component.
3. 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).
4. Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients with multi-morbidity and polypharmacy and order relevant monitoring tests.
5. Provide telephone consultations for patients with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines.
6. To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care, and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and manage these changes without referral to a GP.
Job responsibilities
1. Manage own caseload of care home residents and undertake clinical medication reviews with patients with multi-morbidity and polypharmacy.
2. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
3. Manage own caseload of vulnerable housebound patients at risk of hospital admission and harm from poor use of medicines.
4. Attend and refer patients as necessary identifying key areas of need for vulnerable patients and formulating care plans.
5. Signpost to community pharmacy and refer to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate.
6. Provide patient-facing clinics for those with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines in practice.
7. Provide telephone consultations for patients with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines.
8. Answer all medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g., community pharmacy), and patients with queries about medicines.
9. 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.
Knowledge, skills, and experience required
* Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy.
* Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
* Proven ability to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of their own clinical practice.
* Understanding of systems to gain an understanding of the health needs of the Practice population as they relate to Primary Care.
* Excellent inter-personal, verbal, and written communication skills.
* Time management and ability to prioritise workload.
* Able to analyse data and information, drawing out implications for the individual patient and impact on care plan.
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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