Shepley Health Centre has an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and enthusiastic individual, looking to progress as a Clinical Pharmacist in primary care. The successful candidate will be highly motivated, flexible, reliable and passionate about patient care.
This role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies, so it requires motivation and passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice.
The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber, if that qualification is not already held.
Main duties of the job
Key duties and responsibilities
1. Patient facing Long-term condition Clinics - See patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required.
2. Perform Clinical Medication Reviews.
3. Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews.
4. Managing caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence.
5. Patient facing or telephone medicines support.
6. Management of medicines at discharge from hospital.
7. Provide medicine information to practice staff and patients.
8. Medicines quality improvement - undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results, and implement changes in conjunction with the relevant practice team.
9. Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations.
10. Work with the general practice teams to ensure the practices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
11. Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time.
Roles and responsibilities will grow as the role develops.
About us
Shepley Health Centre is a GP Surgery with 6800 patients in semi-rural Huddersfield. It is a fast-paced environment at the coal face of health care in the NHS. We are a supportive team striving to provide the best service we can to our practice population. It can be demanding at times but equally very rewarding.
* Free Parking
Schedule:
* Monday to Friday
Starting salary depending on experience.
Job responsibilities
The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management, provide face-to-face structured medication reviews, manage long term conditions, management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, manage repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation, acute prescription requests, while addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients.
The post holder will perform face-to-face medication review of patients with polypharmacy and those with multiple comorbidities.
The post holder will provide leadership on quality improvement and clinical audit as well as managing some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework.
This role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies, so it requires motivation and passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice.
The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber, if that qualification is not already held.
The post holder will be supported through completion of the CPPE Pathway.
Key duties and responsibilities
1. See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required. Review the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs, and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines ensuring they get the best use of their medicines. Make appropriate recommendations to other team members for medicine improvement.
2. Perform Clinical Medication Reviews.
3. 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.
4. Managing caseload of 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.
5. Provide appointments and time for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.
6. 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.
7. Answer relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other network staff, and patients with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.
8. Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results, and implement changes in conjunction with the relevant practice team.
9. Monitor practice prescribing and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs). Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on each practice's computer system. Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance. Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.
10. Work with the general practice teams to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
11. To support public health campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.
12. 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.
Roles and responsibilities will grow as the role develops.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Undergraduate degree in pharmacy from a UK accredited university. Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
* May hold or be working towards an independent prescribing qualification. Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
Personal Attributes
* Able to provide leadership and to finish work tasks.
* Ability to maintain effective working relationships and to promote collaborative practice with all colleagues.
* Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the cooperation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals).
* Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary.
* Ability to organise, plan and prioritise on own initiative, including when under pressure and meeting deadlines.
* High level of written and oral communication skills.
* Ability to work flexibly and enthusiastically within a team or alone. Knowledge of and ability to work to policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and health and safety.
Experience
* Experience and an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
* Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations.
* Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports.
* An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
* Experience of working in primary care.
* In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
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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