Northfield Medical Centre provides general medical services for approximately 12,000 patients living in Blaby and the surrounding area. We are a teaching and training practice with an experienced multi-disciplinary compliment of clinical staff and a very supportive administrative team. The success of the practice is built around teamwork with strong relationships with both internal and external colleagues.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
1. Oversee Medicines Optimisation Framework allocating the work streams to the team.
2. CQC safety alerts - to delegate these through the team and ensure ALL are completed every month with clear rationale for why patients may remain on medications.
3. Oversee the safe review of MHRA and CAS alerts and ensure dissemination and learning.
4. Formulary support for the practice team.
5. DMARD and DOAC prescribing - oversee the safe prescribing of high risk monitoring in line with LMSG and ensure regular audit and robust safety processes.
6. EPS - supporting GP’s to sign EPS as needed.
7. Medication queries - supporting with medication queries and reviews as well as managing the flow of work through the system.
8. Lipid management - including Inclisiran support, escalating to target LLM.
9. QOF - to support in areas of review needed to achieve QOF.
10. Manage Eclipse alerts for the practice ensuring they are actioned in line with local guidelines.
11. PCN DES Extended hours - to support and review the workforce delivering this model.
12. Green agenda - reviewing inhalers and other aspects of the green agenda for general practice as related to meds.
13. Provide supervision and support to the practice pharmacy technician.
Key Objectives
1. Provide pro-active leadership on medicines and prescribing systems to the practice clinical pharmacy team, patients, and their carers.
2. Develop and deliver patient facing services and clinics which improve patient outcomes, reflect the needs of the practice population and shift workload from other disciplines.
3. Deliver high quality medication reviews and develop bespoke medicines treatment plans for patients (particularly the elderly, complex patients, and those at high risk of admission).
4. Improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education to improve performance against NICE standards, prescribing guidance, and other clinical standards.
5. Develop yourself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training, and service redesign activities.
6. Deliver training, mentoring and guidance to other clinicians and staff on medicines issues.
Patient Facing Clinical Services & Care
1. Work in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
2. Take responsibility for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple long-term conditions (in particular COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP - Stopping Over Medication Programme).
3. Prescribe acute and repeat medication for patient need within areas of competency.
Medicines Optimisation Systems
1. Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation. Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care.
2. Oversee system for reconciliation of medicines from outpatient and discharge letters and support safe transfer of care through liaison with hospital and community colleagues.
3. Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties) and anticoagulation.
Safety
1. Report medicines related incidents, contribute to investigations and root cause analyses.
2. Participate in serious incident investigations and multidisciplinary case reviews.
3. Report Adverse Drug Reactions and promote reporting by MDT.
4. Action and respond to Drug Safety Alerts and other safety cascades.
Training, Education & Information
1. Develop and deliver education sessions and training to clinical and non-clinical staff on medicines issues.
2. Provide ad-hoc medicines advice to doctors and other clinicians.
3. Assess emergent clinical evidence and develop strategies for implementation in practice.
4. Provide advice on cost effective prescribing and supply issues.
5. Provide teaching and support to medical students, GP trainees and other trainee healthcare professionals.
6. Always seek to develop own knowledge and understanding.
Quality
1. Provide leadership on medicines safety compliance with CQC and other professional standards.
2. Promote a culture of constant improvement and excellence.
3. Conduct regular clinical audits and other improvement activities.
4. Assess own performance regularly and make suggestions of how to improve personal and team performance.
Performance/Professional Development
1. Participate in training sessions to ensure administrative, clinical and computer skills are kept up to date with current technology and practice.
2. Regular appraisal meetings.
3. Regular team meetings.
4. Comply with the General Pharmaceutical Council Re-validation process.
Working with Patients
1. Work in partnership with our patients to help them achieve better health outcomes.
2. Offer a polite, friendly, and efficient level of customer service to all our patients.
3. Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines while helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients in the network and help in tackling inequalities.
Feedback
1. Listen to feedback from patients and colleagues whether this is a complaint, comment, or compliment and if it cannot be dealt with immediately, ensure it is reported to a member of the Practice Management Team.
Clinical and Information Governance and Quality Assurance
1. To understand and enact the importance of confidentiality when dealing with patients and staff, particularly when giving or receiving information over the telephone in accordance with the Data Protection Act.
2. To maintain the high standards of the service by contributing towards individual, team and service objectives and acting at all times in the best interest of patients.
3. To accurately collect, collate and input data to Information Systems as required by procedures to ensure that patient database records are up to date and accurate.
4. To participate in Individual Performance Review and Personal Development plans on an annual basis and to undertake training and development as identified within these discussions and as indicated by the requirements of the post.
5. Post-holders will be required to comply with Information Governance related standards and policies at all times when dealing with confidential information, which includes any information relating to the business of the company and its service users and employees.
6. Post-holders are bound by a duty of confidentiality and must conduct their duties in line with the NHS Confidentiality Code of Practice, Data Protection Act and Freedom of information Act.
7. Post-holders must maintain high standards of quality in corporate and clinical record keeping ensuring information is always recorded accurately and kept up to date. The post-holder must only access information, whether paper, electronic or in other media, which is authorised to them as part of their duties.
8. Any breach of confidentiality or computer misuse could lead to disciplinary action, and in serious cases could result in dismissal. Breaches after the post-holder’s employment has ended could result in the PCN taking legal action against them.
Health and Safety
1. To have responsibility for health, safety and welfare of self and others at work. This includes being conversant with Practice and PCN Health & Safety policies and procedures and ensuring incidents, accidents and near misses are reported; taking part in the risk management process and carrying out tasks/using equipment only when competent to do so.
2. To be responsible for ensuring the general environment is clear of all hazards.
3. To apprise themselves of how the prevention of the spread of infection relates to their role. You have a responsibility to ensure you are aware of Practice and PCN policies and procedures in relation to infection prevention and control and ensure that you comply with them in fulfilling your role.
4. To be responsible for reporting potential risks identified.
Person Specification
Qualifications
1. MPharm Degree
2. Independent Prescriber
3. CPPE or Equivalent
4. GPhC Registration
5. MSc Advanced Clinical Practice
Knowledge and Experience
1. Experience in a leadership role
2. Experience working in primary care
3. Knowledge of medicines schemes such as MOF and Eclipse
4. Experience of working with SystmOne
Skills
1. Strong leadership skills
2. Demonstrable communication and interpersonal skills
3. Accurx, Microsoft etc. proficiency
Additional Requirements
1. DBS Certification
2. Legal Right to work in the UK
3. Smart and professional appearance
Job Type: Part-time
Pay: Up to £34,884.00 per year
Expected hours: 25 per week
Schedule:
* Monday to Friday
Experience:
* Pharmacist: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 13/01/2025
Reference ID: SCP-Dec24
Expected start date: 03/03/2025
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