This is an exciting opportunity to work in General Practice whereyou will be part of our team of Clinical Pharmacists and PharmacyTechnicians. Working closely with ourGPs and wider clinical team, your goal will be to provide high-quality,integrated patient care.
We are building our clinical pharmacy team andputting it at the heart of our plans for the future so if you share our valuesof collaboration, integrity, quality, respect and wellbeing and are looking fora new challenge, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Our successful candidate will be a pharmacist with a minimum of 2years post-qualification experience. Youwill be a team player and keen to develop your skills in new ways. You will take responsibility for areas ofchronic disease management, undertake clinical medication reviews toproactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy, and provide support withregards to prescription and medication queries.You will deal with medication requests and medicines reconciliation ontransfer of care. A key part of yourrole will also be to provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation andquality improvement.
This is a patient-facing role so you will enjoy working directlywith patients to obtain the best clinical outcomes for their conditions.
You will be supported by our Lead ClinicalPharmacist who will support your development and provide mentorship in therole.
About us
We are a large rural practice with over 35,000 patients. As a single-practice Primary Care Network, we have a wonderful opportunity to transform care for our patients. We operate from 7 locations across Holderness and you must also be willing to travel between sites as necessary. Our hard-working and dedicated team includes 23 GPs, an extensive multi-disciplinary team of healthcare professionals and a great patient services and administration team.
We offer a welcoming practice environment, 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and access to the NHS pension scheme
Job responsibilities
Primary Duties and Areas ofResponsibility
See (where appropriate) patients withsingle or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required(e.g. COPD, asthma).
Review the on-going need for eachmedicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patientswith their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines(i.e. medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to SeniorPharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement.
Patient facingClinical Medication Review
Undertake clinical medication reviewswith patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist,nurses and/or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
Patient facing carehome medication reviews
Undertake clinical medication reviewswith patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacist,nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
Work with care home staff to improvesafety of medicines ordering and administration.
Patient facingdomiciliary clinical medication review
Undertake clinical medication reviewswith patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinicalpharmacists, nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
Attend and refer patients tomultidisciplinary case conferences.
Management ofcommon / minor / self-limiting ailments
Managing caseload of patients withcommon/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practiceand limits of competence.
Signposting to community pharmacy andreferring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate.
Provide patient facing clinics forthose with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in thepractice.
Telephone medicinessupport
Provide a telephone help line forpatients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.
Medicineinformation to practice staff and patients
Answers relevant medicinerelated enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcareteams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines.
Suggesting and recommending solutions.
Providing follow up for patients tomonitor the effect of any changes.
Unplanned hospitaladmissions
Review the use of medicines mostcommonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissionsthrough audit and individual patient reviews.
Put in place changes to reduce theprescribing of these medicines to highriskpatient groups.
Management ofmedicines at discharge from hospital
To reconcile medicines followingdischarge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, includingidentifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients andcommunity pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need postdischarge.
Set up and manage systems to ensurecontinuity of medicines supply to highriskgroups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in carehomes).
Signposting
Ensure that patients are referred tothe appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of carewithin an appropriate period of time e.g. pathology results, common/minorailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc.
Repeat prescribing
Produce and implement a practicerepeat prescribing policy.
Manage the repeat prescribingreauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeatprescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging upthose needing a review.
Ensure patients have appropriatemonitoring tests in place when required.
Identification of cohorts of patientsat high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computersearches.
Thismight include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both.
Contribute pharmaceutical advice forthe development and implementation of new services that have medicinalcomponents (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).
Informationmanagement
Analyse, interpret and presentmedicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision-making.
Undertake clinical audits ofprescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implementchanges in conjunction with the practice team.
Implement changes to medicines thatresult from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and nationalguidance.
Implementation oflocal and national guidelines and formulary recommendations
Monitor practice prescribing againstthe local health economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs formedicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subjectto shared care (amber drugs) and ensuring that the appropriate monitoring istaking place.
Assist practices in seeing andmaintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computersystem.
Auditing practices compliance againstNICE technology assessment guidance.
Provide newsletters or bulletins onimportant prescribing messages.
Education andTraining
Provide education and training toprimary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
Care QualityCommission
Work with the general practice team toensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines areinvolved.
Public health
To support public health campaigns.
To provide specialist knowledge on allpublic health programmes available to the general public.
Please view the job description document for the full description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent.
* Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification.
* Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience.
Experience
* Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience.
* An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices.
* Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
* Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients).
* Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
* Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
* Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines.
* Produce timely and informative reports.
* Work effectively independently and as a team member.
* Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
* In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence- based healthcare.
* An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
* Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
* Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/ persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers.
Professional Registration
* Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
* Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
* A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
Other
* Self-Motivated.
* Adaptable.
* Full Driving Licence.
* Safeguarding adult and children level three.
* Information Governance toolkit completion.
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.
£21.95 to £25.09 an hourIn line with Holderness Health Pay Policy
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