The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management, provide face-to-face/telephone call structured medication reviews, manage long-term conditions, management of medicines on transfer of care, and systems for safer prescribing. They will manage repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisations, acute prescription requests, while addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients in the GP practice.
The post holder will perform medication reviews of patients with polypharmacy, especially for older people, people in residential care homes, and those with multiple co-morbidities. They will provide leadership on quality improvement and clinical audit as well as managing some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework.
This role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies, so it requires motivation and passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice. The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber, if that qualification is not already held.
Main Duties of the Job
Job Role Summary
Improve patients' health outcomes and efficiency of the practice team by providing direct, accessible, and timely medicines expertise, including identifying areas for improvement and initiating change.
The primary contact within the practice for queries relating to medicines management, in particular around individual patient care.
Focus on individual patient care by addressing immediate and future needs to personalise care planning.
Proactively transfer, from other clinical staff, workload relating to medicines optimisation to improve patient care and safety.
Demonstrate the effectiveness of the practice and the role through audit and data analysis.
Follow up patients and investigations, particularly blood tests.
About Us
SHP is a Solihull-based partnership looking after over 56,000 patients and operating out of 7 sites. This role provides an opportunity to join a large forward-thinking organisation whose vision is to be the most respected Primary Care provider in the West Midlands.
Through our centralised back-office functions, our systems are organised so we can concentrate on healthcare and not administration. Our practices place great value on teaching, training, and mentorship within the team.
Job Responsibilities
Repeat Prescribing
Develop and quality-assure improved, safe, and efficient repeat prescribing and medication review processes within the practice, and then evolve and implement changes as required.
Conduct focused and structured reviews of repeat prescriptions on an individual basis to improve quality and safety, maximise effectiveness, and reduce wastage.
Provide medication review services via clinics in the practice, domiciliary visits, and in residential and nursing homes. These may be face-to-face or notes-based reviews.
Long-Term Conditions / Chronic Disease Management
Undertake disease-focused medication reviews, particularly of high-risk groups (elderly, renal/hepatic impairment), and ensure appropriate compliance with national and local guidelines.
Ensure the care for patients taking high-risk drugs (e.g., DMARDs, anticoagulation) is safe and appropriate.
Provide telephone advice to patients with long-term conditions on specific medicines management issues.
Be familiar with and contribute to the development of practice CCG long-term conditions pathways to ensure consistency and efficiency of systems.
Provide health promotion where appropriate, including flu vaccinations.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
* CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway
* Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
* Independent prescribing qualification
Other
* Flexibility to meet the needs of the business
* Able to travel to all SHP sites
* DBS required
* Immunisation status
* Full driving licence
Experience
* In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
* An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices
* Experience working within a primary care or general practice
* Management of patients with long-term conditions
Skills and Knowledge
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g., patients)
* Excellent interpersonal, influencing, and negotiating skills
* Effective decision making and negotiation skills
* IT skills (MS Office, EMIS, and DOCMAN)
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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