Dr Ahmed SA and Partner - The Village Medical Centre
We are looking for a full-time, enthusiastic and highly motivated clinical pharmacist to join our team and embed the role of a clinical pharmacist within our member practice. This is a great opportunity to develop a fulfilling and vital career in primary care within a supported environment. There will be opportunity to use your expertise to innovate; to advise and influence our medicines management strategy; to implement measures that ensure quality and safety in prescribing.
The post holder will be predominately working on site at Village Medical Centre.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role in the practice.
1. Take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.
2. Provide primary support to general practice staff regarding prescription and medication queries, dealing with acute prescription requests and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care.
3. Provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement, managing aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
4. Ensure integration with community and hospital pharmacy to improve patient outcomes and manage workload.
5. Undertake clinical medication reviews for patients with complex polypharmacy, especially for older people and those with multiple co-morbidities.
About us
Health Vision Partnership is a primary care network of 7 GP surgeries covering a patient population of approximately 51,000 patients in the Sandwell & West Birmingham CCG footprint. We are a dynamic and friendly team, already experienced at working together to deliver excellent care for our patients.
Village Medical Centre has an established team of 4 GPs, 2 Salaried GPs, 1 ANP, 2 Nurse prescribers, 2 HCAs, 1 Pharmacist, and collaborates with the PCN as part of the ARRS roles, including 2 Physician Associates, 2 Pharmacists, 1 Primary Care Mental Health Nurse, and 1 Social Prescriber. We are a training practice with 3 GP registrars and a strong dynamic admin team. Our patient base of 10,200 patients is based across 2 sites in Wednesbury, both buildings purposely built.
We are committed to providing the best care and service to our patients who are the main focus and priority of the practice.
We use System-One, Docman, and AccuRX.
Job responsibilities
1. Manage patient-facing long-term condition clinics and implement improvements to patients' medicines, including de-prescribing.
2. Conduct clinical medication reviews with patients and implement prescribing changes as an independent prescriber.
3. Manage caseloads of care home residents and improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
4. Provide telephone support for patients with medicine-related queries.
5. Ensure patients are referred to appropriate healthcare professionals in a timely manner.
6. Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy.
7. Develop and manage new services based on new medicines or NICE guidance.
8. Provide education and training to the primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
9. Support public health campaigns and provide specialist knowledge on public health programmes.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Masters Degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
* Registered with GPhC
* Member of RPS
* Specialist knowledge through a Postgraduate Diploma (e.g., clinical, community, therapeutics) or equivalent
* Evidence of recent and relevant Continuing Professional Development
* Independent prescriber status or a commitment to undertake the course
Experience
* At least 2 years post-registration experience in a hospital, community, or general practice setting
* Experience of undertaking medication or medicine use reviews and patient counselling
* Experience of working with clinicians and multidisciplinary/multiagency teams
* Experience of facilitating change to improve clinical practice
* Experience of delivering training sessions to varied groups
* Experience in undertaking clinical audits
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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