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Job Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit an experienced Clinical Pharmacist, qualified in an approved 18 month training pathway (CPPE) and completed their independent prescribing course, to join our multi-disciplinary team working at Albion Surgery, Bexleyheath.
If you are keen to work within primary care with a passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice, then we would like to hear from you.
Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team (MDT), the job holder will take a lead in driving forward the PCN vision of creating a new wider Community Service, enhancing existing and innovatively developing new care models in a collaborative way.
This role plays a pivotal part in engaging groups of practices to come together and improve the quality of care and operational efficiencies across the local healthcare system, motivating passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice, whilst leading and tailoring the delivery of network priorities and targets with a practice based focus.
Within their professional boundaries, support the development, promotion and implementation of high quality evidence based research that enables the cost effective use of medicines in a way that maximises the benefits of medicines to patients whilst minimising clinical, legal, or financial risks.
Main Duties of the Job
Prescribers in this vitally important patient-facing role will proactively shape structured medication reviews, ensuring that medicines management processes within the practice is optimised to achieve highly effective, safe, and patient centred prescribing. They will lead the way in supporting patients, where necessary in taking their medicines to get the best from them (especially patients with medication issues and/or those with long term conditions), reducing waste, de-scribing where appropriate and promoting enhanced self-care. Undertaking a very structured programme of training if the job holder has not had experience in primary care.
Offering peer support and facilitating shared learning with other pharmacists in local practices across the networks to support the development of their role and implementing agreed prescribing and pharmaceutical activities or development programmes.
About Us
Organisational Values / Objectives
The goals of BHNC are to work strategically with all Bexley Primary Care Networks (PCNs), to help secure the best services for patients whilst working together, to support the member practices in the challenges of a changing NHS.
Bexley Health Neighbourhood Care (BHNC) aims to improve the morale of PCNs / general practice in Bexley, by sharing expertise, services and supporting its workforce. BHNC will make a positive impact on medical services in Bexley, by working closely with the CCG, local NHS trusts, local providers and patient groups, to improve the delivery of healthcare to the local population.
Salary
£47,000 to £55,000 a year depending on experience
Contract
Permanent
Working Pattern
Full-time
Job Locations
Albion Surgery, Pincott Road, Bexleyheath, Kent, DA6 7LP
Job Responsibilities
Clinical and Patient Client Care
Manage own case load of patients and deliver services where you are proud to put the patient first with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence.
Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice, especially for long term conditions and signpost to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate where patients with single or multiple medical problems or where medicine optimisation is beyond the scope of competence (e.g. Respiratory, Cardiovascular and Diabetes).
Provide follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes from suggestions and recommendations made, including virtual advice for patients with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines and answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other network staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines.
Using structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care.
Liaise with BHNC colleagues including BHNC pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.
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.
Work in partnership with hospital colleagues to proactively manage patients at high risk of medicine related problems before they are discharged to ensure continuity of care. 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.
On every occasion, produce accurate, contemporaneous, and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies, standards, and procedures.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
General Practice Pharmacist Training Pathway from CPPE, or equivalent qualification is already held, and exemption is agreed by CPPE. Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent qualification/experience. Safeguarding and other mandatory training. Basic life support training.
Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and completed Independent prescriber course.
Experience Essential
Minimum of 2 years experience as a pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio. Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations. Experience and an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice. An appreciation of the nature of GPs, practices and primary care prescribing concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
Communication & Relationships Essential
Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiation, written and verbal communication skills. Demonstrable ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients). Able to appropriately build relationships to gain the cooperation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, other professionals).
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