37 hours a week (Or 2 x 18.75 hours per week)
Abersychan Group Practice are looking for a Pharmacist who could join our award-winning team. This vacancy will enhance what we already have in place.
We require a forward-thinking pharmacist, who can dispense prescription medications and provide information to patients about the drugs and their use. The pharmacist would also advise physicians and other healthcare workers on the selection, dosage, interactions, and side effects of medications to treat health problems.
Main duties of the job
Reporting to the GP Partners, with a special link to our Prescribing Lead (Dr Eleri Roberts), alongside our experienced Prescribing Clerks and our Practice Manager.
Job responsibilities
JOB PURPOSE:
* To improve the quality and effectiveness of medicines management within the surgery
* To provide patient-focused, prudent healthcare
* To promote medicines safety and review polypharmacy
* To develop the practice pharmacist role, becoming a core member of the practice team working effectively with other health and social care professionals delivering services to patients
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Responsibility for leading and delivering a specialised pharmacy service to Abersychan Group Practice
* For independent prescribers:
* To work as an independent prescriber
* As a registered independent non-medical prescriber to prescribe medicines for patients working within the LHB Policy for non-medical Prescribing and Medicines management Directorates local guidelines/procedure
* To ensure prescribing activities comply with legal requirements and GPhC guidance for non-medical prescribers.
* To monitor own prescribing activities and participate in the evaluation of this service development.
* Responsible for developing and managing systematic medication and polypharmacy reviews, which will take into account social and practical issues for the patient as well as clinical elements.
* To provide medicines optimisation in chronic disease management e.g. heart failure, diabetes, chronic pain management, AF, respiratory etc.
* To develop pharmaceutical care plans for individual patients as appropriate e.g. targeting those with frequent admissions/exacerbations/frail elderly etc.
* To undertake medicines reconciliation following admission or discharge and patient moving into/out of care homes and those newly registered with the practice, following up medication-related issues with the patient or other professionals.
* Review and action appropriate recommendations from Medicines Use Reviews/Discharge Medication reviews identified by community pharmacists.
* To work autonomously in a variety of settings including practice-based clinics, care homes and patients' own homes as appropriate to meet the needs of the patient.
* To develop triage systems to support treatment of minor ailments.
* To support public health and health promotion activities, including smoking cessation, administration of flu vaccinations and antibiotic campaigns.
* To act as the liaison with Community Pharmacy and Secondary Care Pharmacists to resolve relevant medication issues.
* To resolve and action medication queries from practice staff and patients relating to prescription requests or problems identified through the repeat prescribing service.
* To have direct patient contact which may include dealing with occasionally distressing or emotional circumstances, including contact with terminally ill patients and their relatives or carers.
* To be accountable for own professional actions, in line with local and national guidelines and medicines legislation.
Person Specification
Experience
* Medication review and patient counselling
* Experience of working with clinicians and multidisciplinary/multiagency work
* Experience of facilitating change to improve clinical practice
* Experience of delivering training sessions to varied groups
* Experience in undertaking clinical audits
* Experience of primary care role, working with GP Practices
* Experience in running clinics
Qualifications
* Master degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
* Registered with GPhC
* Specialist knowledge through a Postgraduate Diploma and qualifications, or equivalent
* Evidence of recent and relevant Continuing Professional Development
* Member of RPS
* Member or working towards RPS Faculty membership
Knowledge and Skills
* Knowledge of issues regarding the protection of vulnerable adults, frail elderly and those with dementia (Safeguarding/POVA)
* Knowledge of medicines management issues across primary, acute and domiciliary care settings including strategies for the improvement of prescribing
* Understanding and appreciation of National & Local policies which impinge on primary care prescribing
* Understanding principles of clinical governance and how these apply to the broader agenda
* Understanding of personal health and safety responsibilities
* Understanding and adherence to the need for strict patient confidentiality
* High degree of self-motivation and ability to work on own initiative independently and in a multi-professional/managerial team
* Ability to empower and motivate others
* Requirement to work with VDUs for prolonged periods
* Basic clinical examination skills such as taking blood pressure
* Understanding of the current issues facing primary care teams e.g. GMS Contract, pharmacy contract
* An understanding of prescribing budgets and financial information
* Ability to speak Welsh
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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