Job responsibilities
JOB
TITLE: Pharmacist
RESPONSIBLE
TO: GP Partners for clinical
matters
Practice
Manager for operational matters
JOB PURPOSE:
Provide expertise in clinical medicines review,
including new patient medication reviews, acute requests for medications and
queries.
Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful
prescribing through clinical medication review.
Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge
and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the
medicines they need post discharge.
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.
Interface with community and hospital pharmacy
colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals.
Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation
process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching
review dates.
Manage patients and health care professionals
medicine queries.
Increase quality and safety of prescribing
through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA cycles.
Manage practice formularies to improve the
quality, safety and cost effectiveness of prescribing.
Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA
aimed at improving medicines safety.
Work with primary care professional and patients
to implement NICE and other evidence-based guidelines.
Run clinics where medicines are the main
interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics.
Contribute to multimorbidity reviews and
multidisciplinary reviews.
Provide medicines information and training to
Practice healthcare professionals and admin staff.
Review daily Pathology results for patients on
known medicines for Near Patient Testing.
Act as a source of medicines information for all
of the practice team and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse
events, possible alternatives e.g. around out of stocks).
Undertake minor ailments triage: dealing with
minor ailments and triaging patients appropriately.
CORE
RESPONSIBILITIES
Working within the practice-based team to
undertake medication reviews particularly in high-risk groups.
Improve prescribing practice through educational
support for all prescribers within the practice.
Lead on where changes in evidence require
changes in prescribing across patient population e.g. where a drug is withdrawn
or indications change .
Liaise with colleagues in community pharmacy to
align support for medicines adherence.
Support improvements in clinical care through practice-based
audit and implementing change.
Prescribing advice to prescribers in practice
e.g. temporary non availability of drugs.
Ensure patient safety when they are transferred
between care providers through reconciliation of prescribed medicines.
QUALIFICATIONS
& TRAINING FOR THIS JOB
NB: it is
anticipated that the level of qualification held may vary according to the
level of position and the components of the role being carried out
Completion of an undergraduate degree in
Pharmacy, and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
Minimum of 2 years post graduate experience in
pharmacy, as demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
Experience of working as a Pharmacist in Primary
Care.
Hold an independent prescribing qualification.
Has an awareness of the breadth of common acute
and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical
practice.
BEHAVIOURAL
COMPETENCIES AND SKILLS FOR THIS JOB
EXPERT
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Demonstrates general pharmaceutical skills and
knowledge in core areas
Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and
review general pharmaceutical care programmes for patients in core areas,
including disease states / long term conditions identified by local
Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment.
Demonstrates accountability for delivering
professional expertise and direct service provision as an individual.
Demonstrates ability to use skills in a range of
routine situations requiring analysis or comparison of a range of options.
Recognises priorities when problem-solving and
identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors
or GPs when appropriate.
Is able to follow legal, ethical, professional
and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct.
Involves patients in decisions about prescribed
medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidance.
COLLABORATIVE
WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
Recognises the roles of other colleagues within
the organisation and their role to patient care.
Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to
gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and
peer colleagues, and other professionals, cluster/collaborative).
Demonstrates ability to work as a member of a
team.
Is able to recognise personal limitations and
refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary.
Liaises with cluster/collaborative colleagues
including medicines management team Pharmacists on prescribing related matters
to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.
Liaises with cluster/collaborative pharmacists
and Heads of Medicines Management to benefit from peer support.
Liaises with other GP Practices and staff as
needed for the collective benefit of patients.
