Pharmacist - General Practice

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main Duties:

1. To provide guidance and support to the pharmacy and medicines management team including mentoring, support and professional development. Always ensure adequate cover on a rota by suitably qualified staff to provide a robust 5-day service.

2. To develop effective protocols for the team to ensure efficient and effective processes are in place for patients.

3. To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.

4. Take responsibility for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical structured medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy.

5. Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required

6. Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients and to help in tackling inequalities.

7. Provide leadership on person centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.

8. Support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care, through structured medication reviews.

9. Support the integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload.

10. To assist and lead where appropriate in identifying cost effective and evidence-based use of medicines.

11. To reconcile hospital discharge letters, ensuring that data provided is correct and updated on the clinical system.

12. To participate in prescribing audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team

13. Answer medicine related enquiries from GPs, practice staff and patients. Suggesting and recommending appropriate solutions and provide follow-up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes as indicated.

14. Analyse, interpret, and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making across the primary care team

15. 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) including the development of the practice based dispensary.

16. To assist in reducing medication errors such as Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

17. Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved, including regular audits.

18. To contribute to the PCN delivery of the highest possible quality standards.

19. To maintain computerised records in accordance with data protection principles to ensure patient confidentiality.

20. To keep up to date with current pharmacy practice, new drugs, and their uses

21. To attend the practice meeting when required

22. To represent the practice at locality Prescribing Leads Meetings with responsibility to inform the partnership of actions.

23. Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across PCN and the wider health and social care system.

24. To respond to patient complaints in accordance with the practice complaints procedure.

25. To abide by the General Pharmaceutical Societys code of ethics, observing and applying all professional, ethical, and legal obligations

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• 1. Degree in pharmacy or equivalent
• 2. Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• 4. Qualified prescriber
• 5.Minimum of 2 years experience as a pharmacist, in acute hospital, community pharmacy or community health services, demonstrated within a practice portfolio
• 6. Experience of working with the public
• 7. Experience of being responsible and accountable for own professional actions, working independently within professional and organisational boundaries and being responsible for the actions of others within their area of responsibility
• 8. Ability to analyse, interpret and evaluate specialist medicines related information or data.
• 9. Effectively manage own time, workload, and resources.
• 10. Ability to communicate sensitive and complex specialist medicines related information and advice to patients & carers, medical teams and other healthcare professionals.

Desirable

• 1. Completed Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE) Clinical Pharmacist 18-month training pathway.
• 2. Experience of working within primary care

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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

Riverside Health Partnership

Address

Riverside Walk

Retford

Nottinghamshire

DN22 6FB

Employer's website

http://riversidehealth.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)