Job summary
Our pharmacist roles are underpinned by a strong pharmacy
technician team and we place emphasis on training and development to allow our
Pharmacy team to continue working at the highest level.
We offer a competitive salary, an NHS pension scheme,
up to 33 days annual leave depending on NHS service and provide the training
and development opportunities needed to excel in the role. You will also enroll
onto the CPPE pathway where you will also complete the prescribing course.
In addition to providing a positive working
environment we also understand the importance of managing a busy lifestyle
outside of work. We encourage a work/life balance by giving you an opportunity
to deliver some of your hours from home.
We have full and part time
roles available so we are confident there will be something for you within our
team.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work within their clinical competence as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in medicines management. This involves:
· Structured medication reviews
· Managing long term conditions
· Medicine’s reconciliation
· Implementing systems for safer prescribing
· Prescription safety reviews
· Managing acute prescription requests
· QOF and CCG Prescribing Achievement Framework
We are constantly looking for ways to further integrate and expand the remit of the pharmacy team within the practice and we will actively support you to deliver your role according to your aspirations and the needs of the business.
Essential Criteria
Please see the Person Specification for the skills and experience required for the role. However, if you do not have the required experience and/or qualifications, we still encourage you to apply as we are keen to support you with training and education to develop your role.
If you are not a prescriber, we will support you to complete the course and encourage you to develop skills in a particular area of interest, such as COPD, AF, Diabetes etc.
Attitude and approach are just as important. We are looking for a team player with a thirst for knowledge and enthusiasm to make a difference in primary care.
About us
About the Practice/Department/Team
Rockingham Forest PCN covers 78000 patients across Corby, Kettering and Oundle. We have an existing team of 6 Pharmacists and 5 Pharmacy Technicians. You will be well supported by the wider GP, Nursing and the non-clinical teams. Our pharmacy team is also supported and managed by a Senior Clinical Pharmacist.
Our PCN has monthly pharmacy team meetings, and fortnightly meetings with the whole clinical team which focuses on Quality and Safety and Clinical Performance. Our locality also has monthly PLT sessions. We have a strong team ethos and believe that including those delivering the service in decisions around how the service works is the key to the best patient outcomes, so the management team actively engages with all parts of the surgery to achieve this.
About Lakeside
LAKESIDE HEALTHCARE is changing the face of primary care provision in England. We are bold, adventurous and ambitious and determined to thrive in uncertain times. We are the largest ‘true’ partnership in the NHS and operate from various sites across the East Midlands. We serve the healthcare needs of over 170,000 patients across Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire & Cambridgeshire. Joining our team presents an opportunity to be part of a large organisation that is changing the way primary care is delivered today.
Job description
Job responsibilities
JOB SUMMARY:
The post holder will work within their clinical competence
as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines
management. This involves providing face to face structured medication reviews,
managing long term conditions, ensuring safe prescribing at the transfer of
care, implementing systems for safer prescribing, repeat prescription
reauthorisation and dealing with acute prescription requests.
The post holder will perform face to face
medication review of patients with polypharmacy,
especially for older people, people in residential
care homes and those with multiple comorbidities.
The post holder will provide leadership on quality
improvement and clinical audit, and manage some aspects of the Quality and
Outcomes Framework.
This role is pivotal to improving the quality of
care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver
an excellent service within general practice.
The post holder will be supported to develop their
role to become a non-medical prescriber, if that qualification is not already
held.
Patient Facing Long-Term Conditions Clinics
- See (where appropriate) patients with
single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is
required (e.g. COPD, asthma).
- Review the on-going need for each
medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support
patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of
their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations
to GPs for medicine improvement.
Patient facing Clinical
Medication Review
- Undertake clinical medication reviews with
patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist,
nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.
Patient facing Care Home
Medication Review
- Undertake clinical medication reviews with
patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacist,
nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
- Work with care home staff to improve
safety of medicines ordering and administration
Patient facing domiciliary clinical medication review
- Undertake clinical medication reviews with
patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacists,
nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
- Attend and refer patients to
multidisciplinary case conferences.
Management of
common/minor/self-limiting ailments
- Managing caseload of patients with
common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of
practice and limits of competence.
- Signposting to community pharmacy and
referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate
Patient facing Medicines
Support
- Provide patient facing clinics for those
with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice
Medicine Information to
Practice Staff and Patients
- Answers relevant medicine-‐related enquiries from GPs, other practice
staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with
queries about medicines.
- Suggesting and recommending solutions.
- Providing follow up for patients to
monitor the effect of any changes
Unplanned Hospital
admissions
- Review the use of medicines most commonly
associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through
audit and individual patient reviews.
- Put in place changes to reduce the
prescribing of these medicines to high‐risk patient groups
Management of medicines at
discharge from hospital
- To reconcile medicines following discharge
from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including
identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients
and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they
need post discharge.
- Set up and manage systems to ensure
continuity of medicines supply to high‐risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance
aids or those in care homes).
Service Development
- Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the
development and implementation of new services that have medicinal
components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information
leaflets).
Medicines quality
improvement
- Undertake clinical audits of prescribing
in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes
in conjunction with the practice team.
Implementation of local
and national guidelines and formulary recommendations
- Monitor practice prescribing against the
local health economy’s RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for
medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or
subject to shared care (amber drugs).
- Assist practices in seeing and maintaining
a practice formulary that is hosted on the practice’s computer system.
- Auditing practice’s compliance against
NICE technology assessment guidance.
Operating arrangements:
- Responsibility for one or more sites
dependent upon patient list size
- Based across one or more site’s with the
opportunity to work remotely from other sites
- This is an evolving role and the
responsibilities may augment over time in consultation with the post-holder
- From time to time the post-holder may be
required to work from other sites
Other Tasks
- Duties may be varied from time to time under
the direction of the line manager dependent on current and evolving
practice workload and staffing levels.
Other administration and professional responsibilities:
•
Participate in the administrative and professional
responsibilities of the practice team
•
Ensure appropriate items of service claims are made
accurately, reporting any problems to the practice administrator
•
Ensure collection and maintenance of any required statistical
information
•
Attend and participate in practice meetings as
required
Training and personal development:
•
Maintain professional registration with the GPhC.
•
If it is necessary to expand the role to include
additional responsibilities, full training will be given.
Please note; As a CQC regulated provider of healthcare, from 1 April 2022
we will be required to ensure that all of our workforce have had both first and
second COVID-19 vaccinations (unless you can provide an exemption status
certificate or similar). Therefore, if successful at interview, you will
be asked to provide evidence of your vaccination status prior to commencing
with us.
Job description
Job responsibilities
JOB SUMMARY:
The post holder will work within their clinical competence
as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines
management. This involves providing face to face structured medication reviews,
managing long term conditions, ensuring safe prescribing at the transfer of
care, implementing systems for safer prescribing, repeat prescription
reauthorisation and dealing with acute prescription requests.
The post holder will perform face to face
medication review of patients with polypharmacy,
especially for older people, people in residential
care homes and those with multiple comorbidities.
The post holder will provide leadership on quality
improvement and clinical audit, and manage some aspects of the Quality and
Outcomes Framework.
This role is pivotal to improving the quality of
care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver
an excellent service within general practice.
The post holder will be supported to develop their
role to become a non-medical prescriber, if that qualification is not already
held.
Patient Facing Long-Term Conditions Clinics
- See (where appropriate) patients with
single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is
required (e.g. COPD, asthma).
- Review the on-going need for each
medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support
patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of
their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations
to GPs for medicine improvement.
Patient facing Clinical
Medication Review
- Undertake clinical medication reviews with
patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist,
nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.
Patient facing Care Home
Medication Review
- Undertake clinical medication reviews with
patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacist,
nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
- Work with care home staff to improve
safety of medicines ordering and administration
Patient facing domiciliary clinical medication review
- Undertake clinical medication reviews with
patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacists,
nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
- Attend and refer patients to
multidisciplinary case conferences.
Management of
common/minor/self-limiting ailments
- Managing caseload of patients with
common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of
practice and limits of competence.
- Signposting to community pharmacy and
referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate
Patient facing Medicines
Support
- Provide patient facing clinics for those
with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice
Medicine Information to
Practice Staff and Patients
- Answers relevant medicine-‐related enquiries from GPs, other practice
staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with
queries about medicines.
- Suggesting and recommending solutions.
- Providing follow up for patients to
monitor the effect of any changes
Unplanned Hospital
admissions
- Review the use of medicines most commonly
associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through
audit and individual patient reviews.
- Put in place changes to reduce the
prescribing of these medicines to high‐risk patient groups
Management of medicines at
discharge from hospital
- To reconcile medicines following discharge
from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including
identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients
and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they
need post discharge.
- Set up and manage systems to ensure
continuity of medicines supply to high‐risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance
aids or those in care homes).
Service Development
- Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the
development and implementation of new services that have medicinal
components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information
leaflets).
Medicines quality
improvement
- Undertake clinical audits of prescribing
in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes
in conjunction with the practice team.
Implementation of local
and national guidelines and formulary recommendations
- Monitor practice prescribing against the
local health economy’s RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for
medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or
subject to shared care (amber drugs).
- Assist practices in seeing and maintaining
a practice formulary that is hosted on the practice’s computer system.
- Auditing practice’s compliance against
NICE technology assessment guidance.
Operating arrangements:
- Responsibility for one or more sites
dependent upon patient list size
- Based across one or more site’s with the
opportunity to work remotely from other sites
- This is an evolving role and the
responsibilities may augment over time in consultation with the post-holder
- From time to time the post-holder may be
required to work from other sites
Other Tasks
- Duties may be varied from time to time under
the direction of the line manager dependent on current and evolving
practice workload and staffing levels.
Other administration and professional responsibilities:
•
Participate in the administrative and professional
responsibilities of the practice team
•
Ensure appropriate items of service claims are made
accurately, reporting any problems to the practice administrator
•
Ensure collection and maintenance of any required statistical
information
•
Attend and participate in practice meetings as
required
Training and personal development:
•
Maintain professional registration with the GPhC.
•
If it is necessary to expand the role to include
additional responsibilities, full training will be given.
Please note; As a CQC regulated provider of healthcare, from 1 April 2022
we will be required to ensure that all of our workforce have had both first and
second COVID-19 vaccinations (unless you can provide an exemption status
certificate or similar). Therefore, if successful at interview, you will
be asked to provide evidence of your vaccination status prior to commencing
with us.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent).
- Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification.
- Registration as a Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable
- Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience.
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
- A member of or working towards Faculty Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent).
- Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification.
- Registration as a Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable
- Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience.
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
- A member of or working towards Faculty Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
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
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UK Registration
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