We are looking for a clinical pharmacist to cover maternity leave from December 2024 until December 2025. Ideally we are looking for 1 to 0.8 FTE. We are ideally looking for a clinical pharmacist who is a prescriber and has completed the CPPE training.
Guiseley and Yeadon Medical Practice is situated in West Leeds andserves a patient population of nearly 11500. It offers services out of YeadonHealth Centre and its branch surgery in Guiseley.
We have a prescribing teammade up of pharmacy technicians and prescribing clerks.
We manage our longterm condition reviews in 3 parts, the part 1 being the initial review forbloods and observation, part 2 is then a review of the LTC carried out bypractice nurses or physician associates and the final part 3 is the medicationreview carried out by the clinical pharmacist.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work within their clinical competenciesas part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicinesoptimisation across the Practice. This will include structured medicationreviews with direct patient contact and may include contributing to
Medication reviews including those for long termcondition reviews and care home and frailty medication reviews
Medication queries from patients and teammembers
Management of medicines reconciliation
Contributing to repeat prescriptionauthorisations and reauthorisation
Actioning acute prescription requests
Addressing both the public health and socialcare needs of patients
Contributing to achievement of QOF and locallycommissioned quality improvement schemes
Undertaking clinical audit
Reviewing systems for safer prescribing
About us
Our clinical team comprises GPs, advanced nurse practitioners, mental health nurses, practice nurses, HCAs, pharmacy technicians and physician associates. We have a team approach to patient care and our clinicians are given protected time for debriefs.
We have weekly clinical meetings which cover clinical governance, palliative care, safeguarding and in house training.
Job responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities:
1. Patientfacing Clinical Medication Review
Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients andproduce recommendations for nurses and/or GP on prescribing andmonitoring. These reviews could becohort based, in care homes, polypharmacy or any other area required by thePractice, within the pharmacists competence. Home visits may be required.
2. Medicinesquality improvement
Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed byClinical Team, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction withthe relevant practice team.
Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm frommedicines through computer searches. This might include risks that are patientrelated, medicine related, or both. Put in place changes to reduce theprescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups
Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts,product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
4. Patientfacing medicines support
Provide patient facing clinics for those with medicationreviews, questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.
Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions,queries and concerns about their medicines.
6. Managementof medicines at change of care setting
Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospital oradmission to intermediate care or care homes, including identifying andrectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and communitypharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-riskgroups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in CareHomes).
7. Clinicaladmin
Checking outpatient letters and discharge summaries alreadyreconciled by pharmacy technician. If prescriber issuing acute scripts afterreview. Reauthorising medications after appropriate review.
8. Medicineinformation to practice staff and patients
Answer relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, othernetwork staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patientswith queries about medicines. Suggest and recommend solutions. Providing followup for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.
9. Drugmonitoring
Ensure robust systems are in place for drug monitoring in the practicestreamlining these where possible. Understand and apply the traffic lightclassifications for prescribing in the Leeds Health Economy.
10. Signposting
Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriatehealthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriateperiod of time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions,long term condition reviews etc.
11. Repeatprescribing
Ensure practice has a robust repeat prescribing policy, andstreamline these where possible. You may be asked to contribute to the repeatprescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeatprescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates. Ensure patientshave appropriate monitoring in place when required.
12. Servicedevelopment
Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development andimplementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice ontreatment pathways and patient information leaflets).
13. Informationmanagement
Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlightissues and risks to support decision making.
14. Educationand Training
Provide education and training to primary healthcare team ontherapeutics and medicines optimisation.
15. CareQuality Commission
Work with the general practice teams to ensure the practicesare compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
Support public health campaigns. Provide specialist knowledgeon all public health programmes available to the general public.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
* Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council up to date
* Completion of relevant CPPE Primary Care Pathways
* May hold or be working towards an independent prescribing qualification
Knowledge and skills
* Ability to work and set targets within healthcare.
* An appreciation of the nature or primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing strategies for improving prescribing.
* Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
* Good knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails, and the internet to create simple plans and reports.
* Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
* Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
* Work effectively, independently and as a team member.
* Able to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol.
* Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relation to performance management
* Understand of relevant IT systems: EMIS, SystmOne
* Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social economic, and environmental factors and their impact on communities.
Experience
* Demonstrable experience as an established foundation-level pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
* In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
* An appreciation of nature of GPs and general practice
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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