Job responsibilities
- Please
refer to the more detailed Job Description and Person Specification
attached when applying for this position.
- The
Candidate will be expected to work closely with practice-based and PCN
teams of Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians and the rest of the
medical team to support individual practices and hence the PCN to achieve
their QOF targets and other targets which involve prescribing using
clinical protocols
- The Candidate must :
- Manage chronic disease
management, including titrating medications for diabetes / asthma /
hypertension
- Provide expertise in
clinical medicines reviews
- Address the public health
and social needs of patients in GP practices
- Reduce inappropriate
polypharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review
- Contribute to reductions in
medicine-related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting
patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and
addressing medicines-related issues
- Interface with community and
hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between
primary care professionals including the promotion of the repeat
dispensing service
- Manage the repeat
prescribing re-authorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat
prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates
- Manage patients and
healthcare professionals medicine queries Increase quality and safety of
prescribing through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA cycles
- Manage practice formularies
to improve the quality, safety, and cost-effectiveness of prescribing
Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving
medicines safety
- Work with primary care
professionals and patients to implement NICE and other evidence-based
guidelines
- Run clinics where medicines
are the main interventions eg. hypertension, diabetes, asthma
- Contribute to multi morbidity
reviews and multidisciplinary reviews
- Provide medicines
information and training to Practice healthcare professionals and admin
staff
- Review daily Pathology
results for patients on known medicines
- Act as a source of medicines
information for all of the practice team and patients (e.g. around doses,
side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives e.g. around out of
stocks)
- Undertake minor ailments
triage: dealing with minor ailments and triaging patients appropriately
Core Responsibilities:
- Working within the practice-based
teams across Bexley Medical Group to undertake medication reviews
particularly in high-risk groups such as:
- Frail
elderly - Polypharmacy
- Heart
Failure
- Long
covid
- Patients
on high-risk medicines
- Asthma
- Weight Management
- Post hospital discharge follow up
2. Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all
prescribers within the practice
3. Lead on changes where the evidence requires changes in prescribing
across patient population e.g. where a drug is withdrawn or indications change
4. Support improvements in clinical care through practice-based audit
and implementing change
5. Prescribing advice to prescribers in practice e.g. temporary non
availability of drugs
7. Ensure patient safety when they are transferred between care
providers through reconciliation of prescribed medicines
Qualifications & Training
It is anticipated that the level of qualification held may vary
according to the level of position and the components of the role being carried
out
- Completion of an
undergraduate degree in Pharmacy
- Registration with the
General Pharmaceutical Council
- Have worked in
general practice for at least 1 year.
- Minimum of 2 years
post-graduate experience in pharmacy, as demonstrated within a practice
portfolio or CPDs
- Member of the Royal
Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) or any other relevant Pharmaceutical
Membership
- Have independent indemnity
insurance
- Member of or working towards
(through foundation) RPS or other relevant Pharmaceutical membership you
may hold or be working towards a prescribing qualification
- May hold or be working
towards a postgraduate pharmacy qualification
- Has an awareness of the breadth
of common acute and long term conditions that are likely to be seen in a
general medical practice
- Has already completed CPPE Clinical Pathway for Primary Care
Conduct, Competency & Skills:
- Demonstrates general
pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas
- Is able to plan, manage,
monitor, advise and review general pharmaceutical care programmes for
patients in core areas, including disease states / long term conditions
identified by local Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment
- Demonstrates accountability
for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision as an
individual
- Demonstrates ability to use
skills in a range of routine situations requiring analysis or comparison
of a range of options
- Recognises priorities when
problem-solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is
able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
- Is able to follow legal,
ethical, professional, and organisational policies/procedures and codes of
conduct
- Involves patients in
decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE
guidance
Collaborative Working:
- Recognises the roles of
other colleagues within the organisation and their role in patient care
- Demonstrates use of
appropriate communication to gain the cooperation of relevant stakeholders
(including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals,
other NHS/private organisations)
- Demonstrates ability to work
as a member of a team Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer
to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary
- Leadership:
- Demonstrates understanding
of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately
within the workplace
- Demonstrates understanding
of, and contributes to the workplace vision
- Demonstrates ability to
improve quality within limitations of service
- Reviews last years progress
and develops clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by
others
- Demonstrates ability to
motivate self to achieve goals
Management:
- Demonstrates understanding
of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service
- Demonstrates understanding
of the process for effective resource utilisation
- Demonstrates understanding
of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice
- Demonstrates ability to
identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol
- Follows professional and
organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management
- Demonstrates ability to
extend boundaries of service delivery within the team
Education, Training & Personal Development:
- Understands and demonstrates
the characteristics of a role model to members of the team and/or service
- Demonstrates understanding
of the mentorship process
- Demonstrates ability to
conduct teaching and assessment effectively according to a learning plan
with supervision from a more experienced colleague
- Demonstrates
self-development through continuous professional development activity
- Participates in the delivery
of formal education programmes
- Demonstrates an
understanding of current educational policies relevant to working areas of
practice and keeps up to date with relevant clinical practice
Research & Evaluation:
- Demonstrates ability to
critically evaluate and review clinical literature
- Demonstrates ability to
identify where there is a gap in the evidence base to support practice
- Demonstrates ability to
generate evidence suitable for presentation at a local level
- Demonstrates ability to
apply the research evidence base into working practice
- Demonstrates understanding
of the principles of research governance
- Demonstrates ability to work
as a member of the research team
