We are looking to recruit an experienced, dynamic primary care pharmacist. An independent prescribing qualification is desirable but not essential, although candidates should be willing to work towards this. The role will be based in our practice alongside our clinicians, including pharmacists already in surgery deployed from our PCN.
The practice pharmacist will work closely with the team to ensure we deliver an effective, efficient, and quality medicines management service to our patients.
Main duties of the job
The Pharmacist will undertake the following tasks:
1. Medication reviews (face to face, remote, and e-consultations) and proactively manage patients (some with complex polypharmacy), including patient education, prescribing, and monitoring as per guidelines and within professional competencies.
2. Work closely with the wider team, advising and supporting on medicine management issues.
3. Provide clinical input regarding supporting GPs with medication titration.
4. Undertake prescribing audits.
5. Promote cost-effective prescribing within the practice.
6. Ensure medicines are prescribed and monitored as per the most current guidelines.
7. Adhere to practice systems for drug safety and drug safety monitoring, including regular safety audits.
8. Share knowledge and learning with the wider teams.
9. Attend regular practice meetings.
10. Represent the practice at outside events.
11. Contribute to achieving high IIF/QOF targets.
12. Undertake medication reviews for housebound/care home patients as needed.
13. Take an active role in supporting practice initiatives.
About us
We are a large, forward-thinking paperless practice of 17,000 patients, based in excellent modern purpose-built premises. We focus on maintaining a sustainable and enjoyable work environment and strongly believe that fostering and maintaining a positive ethos and shared vision leads to high-quality patient care. Our strength lies in the diversity of skills and professional interests within our team, which includes Doctors, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists, First Contact Physios, a range of specialised Nurses, social prescribers, health and Wellbeing coaches, and a mental health practitioner. The practice benefits from a well-structured and established management team led by a Practice Operations and Strategic Manager.
Job responsibilities
1. Carry out structured medication reviews on patients with complex polypharmacy, implementing prescribing decisions and requesting appropriate tests.
2. Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure that patients receive their medication post-discharge.
3. Reconcile medicines from clinic letters with the support of the wider practice team.
4. Support long-term condition reviews via face-to-face and telephone appointments.
5. Contribute to reductions in medicine-related hospital admissions and re-admissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines.
6. Identify and address medicine-related issues.
7. Assist in managing patients and healthcare professional medicine queries.
8. Increase patient quality and patient safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA cycles, sharing the findings with the wider team.
9. Contribute to service improvement within enhanced services and QOF.
10. Implement drug withdrawals and alerts (e.g., MHRA).
11. Work with primary care professionals and patients to implement NICE and other evidence-based guidelines.
12. Act as a source of medicine information for all of the practice team and patients (e.g., around supplies, doses, side effects).
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS).
* A UK accredited MPharm degree or OSPAP qualification.
* Clinical Pharmacy Diploma.
* 52 weeks of pre-registration training in England, Scotland, or Wales signed off as satisfactory by your tutor.
* The GPhC registration assessment with a pass result.
* Responsible for own professional development and maintaining competence within own clinical field.
* Post holder will also need to keep up with CPD requirements as specified by GPhC. Completed or willing to enrol on the CCPE pathway.
* Hold an independent prescribing qualification.
Experience
* Able to demonstrate practical experience of dealing with patients.
* Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
* Experience of working in General Practice.
* Aware of a breadth of common acute and long-term conditions likely to be seen in primary care.
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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