Job summary
The Langton Medical Group has an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Pharmacist to join our friendly, hardworking and patient focused practice within the beautiful Cathedral City of Lichfield.
We are seeking an enthusiastic, motivated and forward-thinking pharmacist who enjoys working in general practice.
Salary and sessions are negotiable.
Main duties of the job
The role will involve helping patients to get the best from their medicines by performing medication reviews, communicating medication changes to agreed and approved protocols, improving repeat prescribing processes, promotion of repeat dispensing and online ordering, minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.
About us
Langton Medical Group is a friendly, forward thinking training practice consisting of 2 GP partners and 1 Business partner who are supported by a strong team of salaried GP's, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Practice Pharmacists, Practice Nurses, Health Care Assistants and an excellent admin and reception team.
We have approximately 13,500 patients with a delightfully varied demographic. We have a purpose built (2006) main surgery in Lichfield as well as 2 branch surgeries in nearby Boney Hay & Whittington.
We are a CQC rated 'good' with an area of outstanding practice.
'Learning from caring' is the practice motto and we take pride in offering high quality primary health care.
The practice is firmly committed to the continuous development of its entire staff and to promoting lifelong learning.
Parking is available on site.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to clinically assess and treat patients and be directly responsible for their care and prescribing of defined cohort(s) of patients
- To deliver and develop pharmacy led medicines optimisation working with general practice and the wider multidisciplinary team, ensuring practice remains up to date
- To lead, promote, support and facilitate medicines optimisation ensuring best value, reduced harm and improved outcomes
- To lead and deliver evaluation and audit of service delivery in order to ensure a high quality service
- To work to the principles of Medicines Optimisation and relevant up to date national guidelines and evidence base.
- To support the Prescribing Lead with the medicines agenda within the practice
- Provide pharmaceutical consultations to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team.
- Provide proactive leadership on medicines and prescribing systems to the practice team, patients and their carers.
- Improve patient and carer understanding of, confidence in and compliance with their medication.
- Provide advice and answer medication related queries from patients and staff
- Organise and oversee the practices medicines optimisation systems including the repeat prescribing and medication review systems.
- Promote high quality, cost-effective prescribing in primary care, supporting the specifications within the PCN DES, including Structured Medication Reviews, Enhanced Health in Care Homes and other medicines optimisation tasks as determined by the Practice
- Improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education to improve performance against NICE standards, and clinical and prescribing guidance.
- Contribute to a patient safety culture through reporting and investigation of medicines incidents and undertaking proactive measures to improve patient safety.
- Work with community pharmacists, hospital pharmacists, and other stakeholders in the medicines supply chain to improve patient experience and manage incidents.
- Deliver training, mentoring and guidance to other clinicians and staff on medicine issues.
- Use practice templates to record near patient monitoring for high risk drugs.
- Support and respond to medicines-related queries from medical and administration colleagues
- Review hospital discharge notifications and outpatient hospital letters and reconcile medication against current repeats, flagging up and correcting discrepancies.
- Promote safe use of medication, reporting of medicines-related incidents and pro-actively preventing safeguarding incidents.
- Use knowledge of GP computer prescribing systems and community pharmacy dispensing systems to advise on solving problems related to prescribing/dispensing and other areas to develop the skills of practice and pharmacy staff.
- Support the review of care home procedures, making recommendations for potential improvements.
- Observe the principles of clinical governance when developing policies, protocols, guidelines, SOPs and procedures.
- Support practice prescribing budgets by on-going monitoring, audit and analysis of drug use and support practices in reviewing, developing and enhancing cost-effective prescribing. This includes staying aware of latest QIPP and other cost targets.
- Help review medication with the Dispensary Manager and make recommendations for prescribing changes to improve outcome and ensure prescribing of the most cost-effective product.
- Contributes and participates in audits, evaluation and clinical standard setting within the Practice.
- Accurate and timely summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data.
- Complete all required paperwork for legal and administrative purposes in accordance with relevant standards.
- Ensure that all practice policies are fully implemented.
- Work in accordance with all governance and internal systems relating to (but not limited to) the management of clinical data and systems.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to clinically assess and treat patients and be directly responsible for their care and prescribing of defined cohort(s) of patients
- To deliver and develop pharmacy led medicines optimisation working with general practice and the wider multidisciplinary team, ensuring practice remains up to date
- To lead, promote, support and facilitate medicines optimisation ensuring best value, reduced harm and improved outcomes
- To lead and deliver evaluation and audit of service delivery in order to ensure a high quality service
- To work to the principles of Medicines Optimisation and relevant up to date national guidelines and evidence base.
- To support the Prescribing Lead with the medicines agenda within the practice
- Provide pharmaceutical consultations to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team.
- Provide proactive leadership on medicines and prescribing systems to the practice team, patients and their carers.
- Improve patient and carer understanding of, confidence in and compliance with their medication.
- Provide advice and answer medication related queries from patients and staff
- Organise and oversee the practices medicines optimisation systems including the repeat prescribing and medication review systems.
- Promote high quality, cost-effective prescribing in primary care, supporting the specifications within the PCN DES, including Structured Medication Reviews, Enhanced Health in Care Homes and other medicines optimisation tasks as determined by the Practice
- Improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education to improve performance against NICE standards, and clinical and prescribing guidance.
- Contribute to a patient safety culture through reporting and investigation of medicines incidents and undertaking proactive measures to improve patient safety.
- Work with community pharmacists, hospital pharmacists, and other stakeholders in the medicines supply chain to improve patient experience and manage incidents.
- Deliver training, mentoring and guidance to other clinicians and staff on medicine issues.
- Use practice templates to record near patient monitoring for high risk drugs.
- Support and respond to medicines-related queries from medical and administration colleagues
- Review hospital discharge notifications and outpatient hospital letters and reconcile medication against current repeats, flagging up and correcting discrepancies.
- Promote safe use of medication, reporting of medicines-related incidents and pro-actively preventing safeguarding incidents.
- Use knowledge of GP computer prescribing systems and community pharmacy dispensing systems to advise on solving problems related to prescribing/dispensing and other areas to develop the skills of practice and pharmacy staff.
- Support the review of care home procedures, making recommendations for potential improvements.
- Observe the principles of clinical governance when developing policies, protocols, guidelines, SOPs and procedures.
- Support practice prescribing budgets by on-going monitoring, audit and analysis of drug use and support practices in reviewing, developing and enhancing cost-effective prescribing. This includes staying aware of latest QIPP and other cost targets.
- Help review medication with the Dispensary Manager and make recommendations for prescribing changes to improve outcome and ensure prescribing of the most cost-effective product.
- Contributes and participates in audits, evaluation and clinical standard setting within the Practice.
- Accurate and timely summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data.
- Complete all required paperwork for legal and administrative purposes in accordance with relevant standards.
- Ensure that all practice policies are fully implemented.
- Work in accordance with all governance and internal systems relating to (but not limited to) the management of clinical data and systems.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
- Registered Pharmacist with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Independent prescriber
Desirable
- Previous experience working in General Practice
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
- Registered Pharmacist with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Independent prescriber
Desirable
- Previous experience working in General Practice
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
