GP Practice Pharmacist

Job responsibilities

********PLEASE NOTE THIS ROLE IS HYBRID WORKING - YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO ATTEND THE WORKING SITE DURING PART OF YOUR WORKING WEEK*******

• Reconciliation of medicines from outpatient and discharge letters including liaison with hospital, community and primary care colleagues to ensure correct medicines are continued following transfer of care.
• To work with the pharmacy team and support GPs and other practice staff to deliver on Medicines Optimisation agenda (Prescribing Quality Scheme), QOF and locally commissioned enhanced services.
• To encourage, support and implement adherence to local formulary guidelines and cost-effective prescribing.
• Reviewing, issuing and converting acute medicine requests into repeat medicines, where appropriate.
• Supporting Community Pharmacists in ensuring NOMAD or batch prescriptions are up to date including confirming any stopped or initiated medications with the patient and community pharmacy team.
• Implementing and monitoring a practices adherence to a repeat prescription policy.
• Supporting the Practice Pharmacy Technician (or prescription clerks) with the management of the repeat prescription processes and other medicines management related duties.
• Contributing to repeat prescribing safety i.e. prompting patients for reviews, blood tests, monitoring etc.
• Working with the multidisciplinary team to improve medicines management and safety within the practice including updating, writing and ensuring compliance with practice policies.
• Dealing with patients medicine and prescription related queries over the phone, in clinic, via letter/email or the practice website (this may include advising and prescribing for minor ailments or clinical areas within competence, acute prescription requests, carrying out medication reviews, lead on medication monitoring, providing medication advice, solving technical prescription problems such as supply problems, NOMAD changes etc.)
• Signposting patients to appropriate services and other healthcare professionals (e.g. community pharmacists).
• Working closely with GPs to provide medicine related updates and helping with problem solving.
• Lead and oversee the high risk medication monitoring with the practice admin and the in-house pharmacy team.
• Provide a point of contact for the practice for all medicines-related queries for healthcare professionals as well as patients.
• Patient facing clinics are not currently required but if there are areas of specialty that could provide benefits to the practice then the surgery would be open to suggestions.
• Follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct.
• Oversee the MHRA alerts/CAS alerts, to make sure these are audited, actioned and logged on a spreadsheet.
• Conducting clinical audits as part of the multidisciplinary team.
• MHRA alerts/CAS alerts - to run searches when appropriate and review/action.
• Answering medicine information enquiries from GPs, other healthcare professionals and patients.
• Implementing, in conjunction with the practice team, systems for monitoring medicines use.
• Contributing to clinical education of other healthcare professionals.
• Providing leadership of quality improvements programmes that involve medicines.
• EMIS clinical audits ADHOC

Qualifications

Essential

• Personal Qualities & Attributes
• Commitment to reducing health inequalities and proactively working to reach people from all communities
• Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations, e.g. CCGs)
• Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary
• Ability to identify risk and assess/manage risk when working with individuals
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Able lead on medicines management and medicines monitoring
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
• Able to provide leadership and to finish work tasks
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships and to promote collaborative practice with all colleagues
• Demonstrates personal accountability, emotional resilience and works well under pressure
• Ability to organise, plan and prioritise on own initiative, including when under pressure and meeting deadlines
• High level of written and oral communication skills
• Ability to work flexibly and enthusiastically within a team or on own initiative
• Knowledge of and ability to work to policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and health and safety
• Professional registration
• Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Qualifications & Training
• Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Holds or working towards an Independent prescribing course
• Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
• Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management
• Previous experience in hospital, general practice or CCG
• Experience and an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-terms conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice
• Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams
• Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations
• Minimum of 2 years post qualifying experience
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating 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)
• Recognise priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern, knowing when to escalate
• Able to work under-pressure and to meet deadlines
• Produce timely and informative reports
• Influence/motivate/ persuade the audience to comply with recommended agreed course of action, breaking down significant barriers
• Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social, economic and environmental factors and their impact on communities
• Be able to work well independently and as a team member
• Should be accountable for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
• An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices
• Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports
• Able to plan, manage, monitor and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
• Able to gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
• Able to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol.
• Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions
• Self Motivation
• Safeguarding and other mandatory training
• Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis if required.

Desirable

• Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
• Completion of CPPE 18-month Primary care pharmacy education pathway
• Experience and an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-terms conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice
• Understand the principles of research governance
• Adaptable
• Basic life support training

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).