IntraHealth is seeking an enthusiastic and proactive clinical pharmacist where the role will directly improve patient care and support the efficient running of a general practice.
The successful candidate will be an exceptional team player with good communication and interpersonal skills who is enthusiastic and committed to join the practice team. The ideal candidate will also be able to work autonomously when required.
The successful applicant for this post will be joining us at a particularly exciting time as we develop and expand our service.
Main duties of the job
Working within your clinical and professional boundaries in a patient facing role as part of a multidisciplinary team to manage medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing. Perform face-to-face structured medication reviews of patients with polypharmacy; especially for those with frailty and/or with multiple co-morbidities as well as undertaking reviews of patients with specific long term conditions that fall within your competency.
Work in partnership with stakeholder organisations to improve the safety and quality of care for patients and manage medicines on transfer of care. Deliver medicines optimisation initiatives within GP practices including the provision of specialist professional pharmaceutical advice and services to ensure the safe and cost-effective use of medicines. This will involve work to deliver key medicines optimisation outcomes against a CCG set work plan.
Contribute to quality improvement and clinical audit, as well as supporting aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework, medicines safety and antibiotic stewardship. You will also be required to contribute towards practice financial stability through medicines optimisation and related targets in QOF.
The post holder will comply with the organisation’s policies and procedures.
About us
IntraHealth is one of the UK’s leading providers of NHS Primary and Community Care services. We serve a range of patients across our three divisions of Primary Care (general practice), Pharmacy and Clinical Services which includes anticoagulation monitoring, patient medication reviews and childhood immunisation programmes.
We also provide management and clinical support to other GP practices and NHS bodies. We are a well-established organisation having provided NHS services since the company was founded in 1999. Our team is made up of GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANPs), nurses, pharmacists, Health Care Assistants (HCAs) and local administration teams supported by a centralised back office function; providing finance, HR, administration and data analysis support.
We operate NHS services across the North East, North West and Yorkshire.
Job responsibilities
To improve patients' health outcomes and the efficiency of the Primary Care team by providing direct, accessible and timely medicines expertise. To pro-actively transfer workload relating to medicines optimisation issues from other clinical staff to improve patient care, safety and free up scarce clinical staff to spend more time on clinical care:
1. To provide relevant support to the primary care team as An Independent prescriber or clinical pharmacist.
2. To promote safe, evidence-based, cost-effective prescribing in line with CCG requirements.
3. To support effective management of practice prescribing budgets.
4. To provide expert pharmaceutical advice to practices and the medicines optimisation team.
5. To provide prescribing support to designated practices and team members in areas such as:
1. Medication review
2. Implementation of prescribing changes
3. Review of repeat prescribing
4. Audit
To act as a training resource for the primary care team.
Practice Role Objectives
Provide pro-active leadership on medicines and prescribing systems to the practice multidisciplinary team, patients and their carers.
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.
Deliver direct patient consultations and prescribing as part of the practice and cluster multidisciplinary team approach for acute illness.
Improve patient and carer understanding of, confidence in and compliance with their medicines.
Provide pharmaceutical consultations and home visits to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team.
Field medicines and prescribing queries from patients and staff.
Organize and oversee the practice's medicines optimisation systems including the repeat prescribing and medication reviews systems.
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).
Improve the safety and quality of prescribing following hospital admissions and attendance.
Improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education to improve performance against NICE standards, prescribing guidance and other clinical standards.
Develop yourself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training and service redesign activities.
Contribute to patient safety culture through reporting and investigation of medicines related incidents and through pro-active measures such as the Primary Care Trigger Tool or PINCER.
Provide a clear and active link with community pharmacists and other stakeholders in the medicines supply chain to improve patient experience and manage issues.
Deliver training, mentoring and guidance to other clinicians and staff on medicines issues.
Contribute to the achievement and maintenance of good to outstanding CQC registration status.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Member, in good standing, of General Pharmaceutical Council.
* Extensive knowledge of medicines optimisation or clinical pharmacist role, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training.
* Evidence of post graduated qualifications.
* Extensive knowledge of medicines optimisation acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to masters level equivalent.
* Membership of the RPSGB.
* GPhC Independent Prescribing Qualification or working towards.
* A member of or working towards Faculty of RPSGB.
* Working on or intending to complete CPPE Primary Care Pathway training course.
* Ability to constructively challenge the views and practices of clinicians and managers.
* Excellent verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
* Excellent interpersonal skills.
* Work effectively independently and as a team member.
* Will consider the most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery; has the ability to take actions which support and promote this agenda.
* Embrace change, viewing it as an opportunity to learn and develop.
* Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation.
* Experience of communication, negotiating and influencing with a wide range of stakeholders.
* Able to facilitate change.
* Experience of clinical audit.
Experience
* Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on planning, engagement and delivery, or clear evidence of ability to acquire and apply this rapidly.
* Minimum of two years post-qualification experience.
* Current NHS experience.
* Good understanding of primary care.
* Should have an appreciation of the new NHS architecture including the relationship between individual provider and commissioning organisations.
* Good understanding of primary care.
* Experience of undertaking evidence reviews.
* Understanding of the current national policies in particular those impacting on medicines optimisation services.
* Evidence of experience in using independent prescribing or clinical pharmacist skills.
Skills and Abilities
* Demonstrates understanding of legal, governance and ethical frameworks within which pharmacists operate.
* Ability to summarise and present information in relevant concise and proactive way.
* Current and valid UK driving license with access to a car to be able to travel around PCN practices.
* Excellent clinical knowledge and ability to apply to practice.
* Understanding of the data protection act and patient confidentiality, clinical governance, information governance and Caldicott requirements.
* Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts.
* Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others.
* Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.
* Evidence of planning and delivering of programmes and projects and services on time.
* Experience of a patient-focused role and consultation skills to apply knowledge in a format patients/carers can understand.
* Sound knowledge of medicines legislation and the vision for the development of clinical pharmacists within primary care.
* Ability to critically analyse complex information and evidence and communicate the findings clearly in simple terms.
* Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
* Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution.
* Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales. Interpreting national policy for implementation.
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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