Job responsibilities
Role Overview
The post holder is a pharmacist, supporting and working alongside a team of 9 pharmacists and 3 technicians in general practice
In this role they will be supported by an advanced pharmacist who will develop, manage and mentor them. The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role and will ideally be a prescriber, or open to training to become a prescriber. The role is predominantly about prescription management, medication reviews, building relationships with stakeholders and implementing safe and effective working practices, as well as expanding your skills of medication reviews and reviews of long term conditions. There will also be the opportunity to mentor and develop less experienced colleagues.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
You will take responsibility for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple long term conditions.
You will support the management of the practices repeat and acute prescription management processes, as part of The Prescribing Team. You will review medication requests, issuing and arranging the necessary reviews as needed.
You will work to improve communication about medication-related issues between the practice and other care providers
You will develop relationships and work closes with other pharmacy professionals across PCNs and the wider health and social care system
As a more experienced Pharmacist you will provide mentoring, training and development of appropriate pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in the team
To ensure implementation of safe and efficient repeat prescribing systems
You will be part of a professional clinical network and will have access to appropriate clinical supervision as outlined in the Network Contract DES guidance
- You will support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care.
- In your leadership role you will be supporting further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload.
Health and safety/risk management
The jobholder must comply at all times with the practices Health and Safety policies, in particular by following agreed safe working procedures and reporting incidents using the practices Risk Incident Reporting System.
Equality and Diversity
The jobholder must co-operate with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment. Co-workers, patients and visitors must be treated equally irrespective of gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc.
Patient confidentiality and ensuring dignity and respect of patients
The jobholder should respect patient confidentiality at all times and not divulge patient information unless sanctioned by the requirements of the role. This includes written and verbally communicated information. The job holder should at all times treat patients with dignity and respect and actively seek to assure an environment that facilitates this.
Communication & working relationships
To be responsible for ones own behaviour to effectively create a working environment that has a good team spirit, is professional in orientation and has mutual respect amongst colleagues. Establishing and maintaining effective communication and constructive input to areas of service development and systems re-design.
Special working conditions
You may also be asked from time to time to be flexible in your working hours as per the needs of the practice.
You will be required to wear a uniform.
REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS ACT 1994 (optional)
Because of the nature of the work, this post is exempt from the provisions of Section 4(2) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1994 (Exceptions) Order 1995. Applicants for posts are not entitled to withhold information about convictions which for other purposes are spent under the provisions of the Act and in the event of employment any failure to disclose such convictions could result in disciplinary action or dismissal by the Trust. Any information given will be completely confidential and will be considered only in relation to an applicant of a position to which the order applies.
