Job summary
We are pleased to offer this exciting opportunity for an
enthusiastic and proactive prescribing Clinical Pharmacist to join us. You will join an established,
multidisciplinary team responsible for delivering high quality medicines
management and clinical pharmacy input to our patients.
Job Purpose
Provide medication review
services to patients via clinics in the practice, and residential and nursing
homes, and to deliver pharmaceutical care plans that maximise cost-effective
prescribing and improve the quality of patient care.
Assist partners with the appropriate monitoring and management of their
prescribing budgets.
Prepare evidence-based resources and information to support the
medicine management team and all other relevant health professionals in the
implementation of rational cost-effective prescribing.
Help plan, develop and support the introduction of new working
processes within the practice to optimise the quality of prescribing.
Main duties of the job
Provide medication review services to patients
Appropriate monitoring and management of prescribing budgets.
To provide regular support and feedback on prescribing action plans
To update and maintain accurate patient medication records on the practices clinical computer systems
Advise the primary health care team on the safe and secure handling of controlled drugs and other medicines
To oversee prescriptions registers
To be responsible for the updating of all PGDs
To action all alerts
To be the lead in the practice for PQS
Do authorise daily EPS Request
Do respond to daily medication queries from patients
Do administer daily Docman tasks
About us
Holly Tree
Surgery is a GP Practice with 6200 patients situated on the outskirts of
Farnham in Surrey, The practice has been serving the local community and
situated on Boundstone Road since before the second world war, and has been
located in its current location since 1963, and the purpose-built building
since 1993. The practice aims to provide great clinical care to their
patients within a supportive, sustainable environment for the team. This is
dispensing practice, and is
part of the larger Frimley CCG
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Help the practice deliver on the QIPP and QOF
- Work with doctors and patients to address medicine adherence, reducing the wastage and overuse of medicines
- Monitor patients’ blood results, focusing on potential harm that can come from long-term use of medicines or poor compliance
- Review patients on complex medicine regimens/ with ongoing health problems
- Support doctors by highlighting changes in NICE guidelines
- Triage and manage common ailments
- Take part in multi-disciplinary case reviews
- Deal with medication for patients recently discharged from hospital, including liaison with hospital, community and primary care colleagues
- Work with the practice team to deliver repeat prescription reviews, especially for care home residents, people prescribed polypharmacy and frail older people
- Look at how best practice is integrated into care processes and improve the quality of patient care, ensuring patient safety
- Manage and prescribe for long term condition patients
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Help the practice deliver on the QIPP and QOF
- Work with doctors and patients to address medicine adherence, reducing the wastage and overuse of medicines
- Monitor patients’ blood results, focusing on potential harm that can come from long-term use of medicines or poor compliance
- Review patients on complex medicine regimens/ with ongoing health problems
- Support doctors by highlighting changes in NICE guidelines
- Triage and manage common ailments
- Take part in multi-disciplinary case reviews
- Deal with medication for patients recently discharged from hospital, including liaison with hospital, community and primary care colleagues
- Work with the practice team to deliver repeat prescription reviews, especially for care home residents, people prescribed polypharmacy and frail older people
- Look at how best practice is integrated into care processes and improve the quality of patient care, ensuring patient safety
- Manage and prescribe for long term condition patients
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- 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.
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- Must hold an independent prescribing qualification
- May hold or be working towards a postgraduate pharmacy qualification
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- 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.
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- Must hold an independent prescribing qualification
- May hold or be working towards a postgraduate pharmacy qualification
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).