St Johns House Medical Centre, Worcester is looking for a committed, dynamic, enthusiastic pharmacist to join our practice team as we look to grow our team, always trying to improve patient care and staff work life balance.
Main duties of the job
The Role
We are a large practice, working from purpose-built premises with a well-established multidisciplinary team, providing primary care services to 13,700 patients.
We have enjoyed the benefit of employing a clinical pharmacist for the last six years and recognize the expanding role of pharmacists in primary care. We encourage and support career progression if desired.
The clinical team meets daily over coffee. There is good team ethos and clinical support.
Key responsibilities will involve:
1. Working closely with the GPs to resolve day-to-day medicine issues.
2. Working closely with the practice clinical pharmacist.
3. Managing and prescribing for long-term conditions in clinics.
4. Working closely with ANPs and practice nurses.
5. Reviewing and advising patients on complex medication regimes.
6. Carrying out face-to-face or telephone appointments with patients.
7. Reconciling medicines at the interface of care, most commonly discharged from hospital, including identifying any unexplained changes and arranging follow-up.
8. Undertaking partly a medicines management role, managing the repeat prescribing authorization process by renewing medication requests, medicines reaching review dates, and medicines queries.
About us
The Benefits
Excellent working environment.
In-house CPD in addition to study leave.
Aiming for longer appointments for complex patients to improve care and reduce time pressure on clinicians.
Flexibility for work/life balance, designing work around other commitments.
Job responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities:
The post-holder is expected to take due note of and act in accordance with the standards of clinical governance that are agreed within the practice. Any concerns should be brought to the attention of the partners as soon as practicable.
In accordance with the practice timetable, the post-holder will make him/herself available to undertake a variety of duties including: surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, checking and signing repeat prescriptions, taking action on electronic prescription requests, and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence, including electronic correspondence, dealing with patient test results and referral letters, paperwork and other correspondence in a timely fashion.
Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers.
Assess the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems.
Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness.
In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, develop care plans for health.
Provide counselling and health education.
Admit or discharge patients to and from the caseload and refer to other care providers as appropriate.
Record clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards, primarily by use of the computer system and complete the clinical system clinical templates as appropriate.
Collect and use data for audit purposes.
Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions, avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible.
Prescribe in accordance with the practice standards and locally agreed or national guidelines whenever this is clinically appropriate.
In general, the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a Pharmacist working within primary care.
Other Responsibilities Within the Practice:
Awareness of and compliance with all relevant policies/guidelines including, but not limited to, prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety, QOF, CQC.
A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice.
Contribute to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organization.
Contribute to the development of computer-based patient records.
Contribute to the summarizing of patient records and Read-Coding patient data.
Attend training and events organized by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate, e.g., CPR training. This includes clinical and non-clinical training and events.
Participate in practice meetings when requested.
Provide information when reasonably requested by the practice manager to ensure that all personnel and other records are accurate, e.g., hepatitis status.
To meet all deadlines for audits and written returns so that the practice meets quality standards and receives the designated funding (QOF, LES, DES etc.).
Person Specification
Qualifications
* RPSGB Qualified
* DBS Clearance
* Member of approved medical defence organisation
Experience
* Sound knowledge of QOF requirements, NICE guidelines etc. and commitment to deliver quality service to patients.
* Confident in making decisions, managing own workload, and delegating appropriately.
* Good record keeping and communication skills.
* Specific interest in a medical area e.g., HRT, Women's Health, Diabetes, Respiratory etc.
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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