Job summary
The role of Pharmacy within General Practice is part of an existing programme of transformation which is underpinned by the NHS Long Term Plan. This innovative role offers the successful candidate the opportunity to support and work within the Lakeside Healthcare Pharmacy Team to ensure safe and effective use of medicines for our patients. Our Pharmacist roles are supported by a strong Pharmacy Technician team to ensure that Pharmacists can continue to work at the highest level.
This is a 12-month fixed-term contract, available on a full-time or part-time basis.
Main duties of the job
Quality and Safety Improvement working towards CQC requirements
Structured Medication Reviews
Repeat Re-authorisations
Medication Queries
Medicines Reconciliation
Chronic Disease Management including medication monitoring
About us
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.
Caring & Respect: Simply put we genuinely care about people: working together for our patients and our teams, our patients come first in everything we do.
Teamwork & Quality: In all areas of our business we network, collaborate and learn from our Patients, Stakeholders and each another to ensure we are always striving to improve, making the right and best decisions to provide the best service.
About the Practice/Department/Team
Lakeside Healthcare at Yaxley is a well-established surgery with a list size of over 20,000, which is growing. We usually achieve full QOF points and have been awarded the RCGP Quality Practice Award twice. The practice adopted a Doctor First access system in 2012 for all GP and Nurse Practitioner/Emergency Care Practitioner appointments.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience and 1-2 years experience in General Practice.
- An appreciation of the nature of Lakeside Healthcare as an organisation within the PCN framework.
- Experience of working in general practice.
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing, and strategies for improving prescribing.
- Experience of signing repeat prescriptions within sphere of own competence.
- Experience of training and developing Pharmacists
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients, cares and practice staff).
- Good IT skills.
- Recognises priorities when problem solving.
- Able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
- Able to meet deadlines and work under pressure.
- Produce timely and informative reports when required.
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Knowledge of audit and research.
Desirable
- Experience of working across multiple sectors of Pharmacy (Community Pharmacy, Hospital Pharmacy, ICBs, Industry).
- Experience of using SystmOne.
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence- based healthcare.
- Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
- Gain acceptance for recommendations and influences/motivate/ persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers.
- Influencing and negotiation skills.
- Able to obtain and analyse complex prescribing information.
Qualifications
Essential
- Registration as a Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Evidence of CPD
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent).
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
- A member of or working towards Faculty Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
- Independent prescriber (or nearing completion) with experience of managing chronic disease.
- Postgraduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy and/or Completion of the CPPE Pathway (or nearing completion).
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience and 1-2 years experience in General Practice.
- An appreciation of the nature of Lakeside Healthcare as an organisation within the PCN framework.
- Experience of working in general practice.
- An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing, and strategies for improving prescribing.
- Experience of signing repeat prescriptions within sphere of own competence.
- Experience of training and developing Pharmacists
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients, cares and practice staff).
- Good IT skills.
- Recognises priorities when problem solving.
- Able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
- Able to meet deadlines and work under pressure.
- Produce timely and informative reports when required.
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Knowledge of audit and research.
Desirable
- Experience of working across multiple sectors of Pharmacy (Community Pharmacy, Hospital Pharmacy, ICBs, Industry).
- Experience of using SystmOne.
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence- based healthcare.
- Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
- Gain acceptance for recommendations and influences/motivate/ persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers.
- Influencing and negotiation skills.
- Able to obtain and analyse complex prescribing information.
Qualifications
Essential
- Registration as a Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Evidence of CPD
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent).
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
- A member of or working towards Faculty Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
- Independent prescriber (or nearing completion) with experience of managing chronic disease.
- Postgraduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy and/or Completion of the CPPE Pathway (or nearing completion).
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).
