Reports to: Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Partners and Practice Managers
Base: Practice based, no hybrid working available
JOB SUMMARY
Working as part of a multidisciplinary team in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using your expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas. You will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex poly-pharmacy. You will have access to appropriate clinical supervision.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an enthusiastic and proactive individual who enjoys challenging and varied work and who will share our vision of providing excellent patient care.
The successful applicant will have completed their CPPE pathway and be joining an established Pharmacy Team and work closely with the wider clinical team to help deliver safe and high-quality medicines management for our patients.
As well as having up-to-date clinical knowledge, preferred candidates will have an understanding of primary care medicines management. We are also seeking a commitment to addressing health inequalities and proactively reaching people from all communities.
Job responsibilities
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Develop and manage a medicines management plan and deliver patient services as determined by Network policy and local and national guidance.
2. Maximise cost-effective prescribing and improve the quality of patient care.
3. Provide expertise in clinical medicines review and address public health and social needs of patients in GP practices.
4. Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review.
5. Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post-discharge.
6. Contribute to reductions in medicine-related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines-related issues.
7. Interface with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals including the promotion of the repeat dispensing service.
8. Manage the repeat prescribing re-authorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates.
9. Manage patients and health care professionals' medicine queries.
10. Increase quality and safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA cycles.
11. Manage practice formularies to improve the quality, safety, and cost-effectiveness of prescribing.
12. Support achievement of PQS and QOF targets.
13. Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety.
14. Work with primary care professionals and patients to implement NICE and other evidence-based guidelines.
15. Run clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics.
16. Contribute to multi-morbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews.
17. Provide medicines information and training to Practice healthcare professionals and admin staff.
18. Act as a source of medicines information for all of the practice team and patients.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Working with the practice-based teams to undertake medication reviews particularly in high-risk groups.
2. Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all prescribers within the practices.
3. Lead on where changes in evidence require changes in prescribing across patient population e.g. where a drug is withdrawn or indications change.
4. Liaise with colleagues in community pharmacies to align support for medicines adherence such as NMS.
5. Support improvements in clinical care through practice-based audit and implementing change.
6. Prescribing advice to prescribers in practice.
7. Ensure patient safety when transferred between care providers through reconciliation of prescribed medicines.
Qualifications
1. Completion of an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy, and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
2. Minimum of 2 years post-graduate experience in pharmacy, as demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
3. Completion of the CPPE pathway.
4. Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS).
5. Member of or working towards (through foundation) RPS Faculty membership.
6. May hold or be working towards a prescribing qualification.
7. May hold or be working towards a postgraduate pharmacy qualification.
8. Has an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice.
9. Complete appropriate Continuing Professional Education and Development and remain in good standing with pharmacist registration and regulation bodies.
10. Maintain appropriate professional insurance.
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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