Practice Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE POST

Ensure that medicines management processes within the practice are optimised to achieve clinically effective, safe, cost-effective patient-centred prescribing

Undertake patient consultations regarding their medication and long-term conditions

Work closely with the practice to deliver the locality-wide priorities with regards to medication.

REPEAT PRESCRIBING AND MEDICINES MANAGEMENT

Manage addition/change of medication from hospital discharge/letters.

Deal with queries regarding medication from pharmacies and other healthcare professionals.

Offer holistic approach to the use and understanding of medicines by patients that includes step up and step-down management required in long term conditions or possibly end of life.

Review, update and implement a practice Repeat Prescribing SOP.

Provide support for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medications by telephone or in person.

Perform medication reviews with the patients ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with the medicine taking.

Ensure every patient contact is recorded contemporaneously and accurately on the patient’s electronic medical record using appropriate encounter details, SNOMED and/or templates.

DESIRABLE As an independent prescriber, prescribe safely, cost effectively and appropriately within current legislative frameworks for both acute and long-term conditions within scope of practice, reviewing its effectiveness and appropriateness to each individual patient.

TEAMWORKING

Promote teamwork and consider other people’s roles and responsibilities.

Lead regular prescribing meetings, providing data and reports in liaison with the practice business manager

Attend and take an active part in nurse meetings and other meetings as required.

Provide training on medication prescribing and process to work colleagues and new members of the practice team.

Distribute tasks to pharmacy technician ensuring this is completed and returned by the deadline.

Ensure all staff are kept fully aware of all SOPS and policies, and changes to them in a timely fashion.

Meet on a regular basis with the Practice Business Manager & Lead Nurse

Supervise the work of the Network Pharmacy technician in relation to St Pauls work

MEDICINES AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

Make recommendations and implement changes to maximise cost-effectiveness.

Implement ICB medicines management initiatives and position statements

Develop and manage new services that are built around new medicines or NICE guidance, where new medicine/recommendations allow the development of a new care pathway.

Assist in monitoring costs and budgets.

Provide audit data for the practice and the ICB.

Work with the network on the network-wide projects.

LONG TERM CONDITION MANAGEMENT

Undertake long term conditions management including regular monitoring and annual review for patients with those long-term conditions for which you have appropriate training and experience.

Keep up to date with developments and evidence-based guidelines with regard to long term conditions management, and feed these back to the team.

Review your agreed long term conditions management protocols on an annual basis.

Ensure all long-term conditions reviews are entered onto the computer using the appropriate EMIS template.

MISCELLANEOUS

Work with the partners and managers to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards in respect of medications and prescribing systems.

Responsibility for vaccine, drugs and appliances ordering, stock control and claims with the help of the practice pharmacy technician.

Be able to take part in the vaccination programmes.

Plan and organise own workload, including audit and project work.

Contribute to practice procedures for evaluating, developing, introducing and improving patient services.

Ensure that professional registration, indemnity insurance, mandatory and role-specific skills are kept up to date.

Maintain the highest standards of personal cleanliness and infection control.

Take part in the practice annual performance appraisal system.

SAFEGUARDING

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and post holders to share this commitment.

Legislation places a statutory duty on all organisations and professionals to work together in the interest of protecting vulnerable children, young people and vulnerable adults. All healthcare professionals, including those staff and volunteers who work within a healthcare setting have a duty to safeguard and support the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and our organisation is committed to this principle. The Practice will provide training and induction programmes to include safeguarding to all existing and new staff and volunteers to promote these aims and raise awareness of the duties and responsibilities it places on our staff.

All health professionals working directly with children, young people and vulnerable adults should ensure that safeguarding and promoting welfare forms an integral part of all stages of the care they offer. Other health professionals who come into contact with children, young people and vulnerable adults, parents and carers in the course of their work also need to be aware of their safeguarding responsibilities.

Special attention should be given to our existing policies regarding Safeguarding and Domestic Violence.

Person Specification

Miscellaneous

Essential

• Friendly, polite and calm disposition
• Keyboard skills and willingness to undertake training in EMIS Web and other IT systems
• Relevant qualifications and up-to-date knowledge and skills
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Efficient organisational and time management skills
• Understanding, acceptance and adherence to strict rules of confidentiality
• Willingness and ability to work alone and as part of a team

Desirable

• Willingness to learn
• Willingness/ability to work at least 1 evening per week

Qualifications

Essential

• A UK accredited MPharm degree or OSPAP qualification or equivalent GPhC registration.

Desirable

• Independent prescriber
• Postgraduate diploma in the management of one or more long-term conditions such as Asthma, COPD, Diabetes, Hypertension or Chronic/Ischaemic Heart Disease etc
• Vaccinator

Experience

Desirable

• Experience of working in a GP practice
• Experience of working with GP computer systems including EMIS Web and Docman.
• Experience of working directly with patients

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).

Employer details

Employer name

St Paul’s Medical Centre

Address

Dickson Road

Blackpool

FY1 2HH

Employer's website

https://www.stpaulspcc.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)