Job responsibilities
Core
Responsibilities - Clinical
Undertake
patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use,
through shared-decision making conversations with patients;
Carry
out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration
(e.g. checking inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews, and medicines
reconciliation. Where required, utilise consultation skills to work in
partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively;
Support,
as determined by the PCN, medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for
new care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers
between care settings and linking with local community pharmacists.
Provide
specialist expertise, where competent, to address both the public health and
social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information,
and help in tackling local health inequalities;
Take
a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising
with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients;
Support
initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic
prescribing;
Assist
in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and
patient safety audits.
Support
the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP
practices, care homes and other primary care settings. This will be achieved
through undertaking clinical audits (e.g. use of antibiotics), supporting
quality improvement measures and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes
Framework and enhanced services.
To
respond to medication queries from patients and staff in a professional manner
referring to the clinical pharmacist when appropriate.
Support
the role of PCN Clinical Pharmacists in the delivery of clinical pharmacy
services
Core Responsibilities
Administrative
Work
with the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines
optimisation, including implementing efficient ordering and return processes,
and reducing wastage;
Supervise
practice reception teams in sorting and streaming general prescription requests,
so as to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically
complex requests;
Provide
leadership for medicines optimisation systems across PCNs, supporting practices
with a range of services to get the best value from medicines by encouraging
and implementing Electronic Prescriptions, safe repeat prescribing systems, and
timely monitoring and management of high-risk medicines;
Provide
training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines,
including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS); and
Develop
relationships with other pharmacy technicians, pharmacists and members of the
multi-disciplinary team to support integration of the pharmacy team across
health and social care including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary
care, and mental health.
Strategy and
Leadership
Understand
the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately
within the workplace
Understands,
and contributes to, the PCN strategic plan.
Able
to improve quality within limitations of service.
Understands
the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service
Demonstrates
understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice
Demonstrates
ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to
policy/protocol.
Relationships
Recognises
the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role in patient
care
Demonstrates
use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant
stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other
professionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g. CCGs)
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 other GP Practices and staff as needed for the collective benefit of
patients
Professional
Development
Takes
responsibility for own professional development demonstrating the ability to
undertake self-directed study and or formal learning opportunities in order to
develop and maintain competence within the clinical area
Registered
with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC);
Meets
the specific qualification and training requirements as specified by the GPhC
criteria to register as a Pharmacy Technician;
Enrolled
in, undertaking or qualified from, an approved training pathway. For example,
the Primary Care Pharmacy Educational Pathway (PCPEP) or Medicines Optimisation
in Care Homes (MOCH).
