Mortimer Surgery is in a semi rural area close to Reading providing high quality care to 11,000 patients.
Unique opportunity for enthusiastic and driven individual who is keen to develop and extend the role of pharmacists within primary care to join a well balanced forward thinking team.
Salary - dependent on experience
2 days per week - preferably Thursday & Friday
7 GPs, Nursing Team, Paramedic Team & Clinical Pharmacist, Dispensary, Pharmacy and supporting services on site
EMIS Practice
Providing a wide range of services with high standards and achievements in patient care, QoF and enhanced services
Attractive location, 45 minutes from London, Oxford and the South Coast, with excellent relations with secondary care and community supporting services
Main duties of the job
* Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas;
* Be a prescriber, or completing training to become prescribers, and work with and alongside the general practice team;
* Be responsible 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 co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP Stop Over Medication Programme);
* Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care.
About us
Mortimer Surgery is in a semi rural area close to Reading providing high quality care to 11,000 patients.
7 GPs, Nursing Team, Paramedic Team & Clinical Pharmacist, Dispensary, Pharmacy and supporting services on site
EMIS Practice
Attractive location, 45 minutes from London, Oxford and the South Coast, with excellent relations with secondary care and community supporting services
The successful candidate will also benefit from the NHS pension scheme, free staff parking, a supportive and friendly team, annual social functions, as well as daily coffee breaks with colleagues.
Job responsibilities
JOB SUMMARY
Responsible for supporting the partners in implementing effective medicine management within the practices, identifying areas for improvement, and initiating and managing change.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
* Manage a medicines management plan and deliver patient services as determined by practice policy as well as local and national guidance.
* Lead the prescribing teams in best prescribing practice for long term condition management with a view to improving the quality of patient care with cost effective solutions.
* Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas;
* Be a prescriber, or completing training to become prescribers, and work with and alongside the general practice team;
* Be responsible 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 co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP Stop Over Medication Programme);
* Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the practice and to help in tackling inequalities;
* Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services;
* Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care;
* Have a leadership role in supporting further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload;
* Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across PCNs and the wider health and social care system;
* 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), liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation;
* Be part of a professional clinical network and have access to appropriate clinical supervision.
* Provide structured education in a group setting for patients with certain chronic diseases.
* Assist partners with the appropriate monitoring and management of their prescribing budgets.
* Help plan, develop and support the introduction of new working processes within the practice to optimise the quality of prescribing.
* Process drug amendments from secondary care.
* Any other tasks as reasonably requested by the practice manager or partnership.
Responsibility for administration
* To provide regular support and feedback to the practice on prescribing action plans.
* To update and maintain accurate patient medication records on the practices clinical computer systems, including advice given and action taken.
* To advise the primary health care team on the safe and secure handling of controlled drugs and other medicines, ensuring compliance with medicines legislation.
Confidentiality: In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.
In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.
Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
Health & Safety: The post-holder will implement and lead on a full range of promotion and management their own and others health and safety and infection control as defined in the practice Health & Safety policy, the practice Health & Safety manual, and the practice Infection Control policy and published procedures.
* Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines.
* Awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory / contractual / professional requirements, and good practice guidelines.
* Correct use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
* Use and monitoring of the correct use of Standard Operating Procedures for cleaning and infection control.
* Responsible for correct hand hygiene of self and others.
* Ownership of infection control and clinically based patient care protocols, and implementation of those protocols within the team.
* Active observation of current working practices across the team in relation to infection control, cleanliness and related activities, ensuring that procedures are followed and weaknesses / training needs are identified, escalating issues as appropriate.
* Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across clinical and patient process.
* Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training of others across the full range of infection control and patient processes.
* Monitoring practice facilities and equipment in relation to infection control, ensuring that provision of hand-cleansing facilities, wipes etc. are sufficient to ensure a good clinical working environment. Lack of facilities to be escalated as appropriate.
* Safe management of sharps procedures, including training, use, storage and disposal.
* Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy, clean and sterile, and safe way, free from hazards. Initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed or escalation to responsible management.
* Actively identifying, reporting and correcting health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised.
* Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, sterile, identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with other sector managers.
* Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum twice annually).
* Routine management of own team / team areas, and maintenance of work space standards.
* Waste management, including collection, handling, segregation, container management, storage and collection.
* Spillage control procedures, management and training.
* Decontamination control procedures, management and training, and equipment maintenance.
* Maintenance of sterile environments.
* Correct cleaning of equipment used for near patient testing, such as blood glucose monitoring equipment and smokelysers, using the manufacturers instructions as appropriate.
* Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
* To assist Mortimer Surgery in reducing healthcare associated infections and maintaining high levels of infection control you should be familiar with the surgery's IPC policy.
* You must either complete online mandatory training or attend the in house annual IPC update.
* You must be compliant with all standards relevant to your department at all times.
* You are responsible for keeping your work area clean and tidy.
Equality and diversity: The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:
* Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation.
* Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.
* Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Personal/Professional development: The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment.
Quality: The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice.
Communication: The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to communicate effectively.
Contribution to the Implementation of Services: The post-holder will apply practice policies, standards and guidance.
Person Specification
Experience
* Effective interpersonal, communication (both oral and written) presentation and influencing skills.
* Ability to communicate information to patients and careers in a clear and appropriate manner, using developed empathy skills.
* Knowledge of medicines management issues across primary, acute and domiciliary care settings.
* Understanding and appreciation of National and local policies which impinge on primary care prescribing.
* Professional approach to work demonstrating excellent interactive patient skills. Guided by professional code, accountable and responsible for own professional actions.
* Ability to gain the confidence and credibility of a range of professional.
* Able to work under pressure and prioritise task to ensure urgent work is completed on time.
Qualifications
* Masters Degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent.
* Registered with GPhC.
* Member of RPS.
* Evidence of recent CPD.
* Independent prescriber status or a commitment to undertake the course.
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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