Job summary
We are looking to recruit an experienced, dynamic primary care pharmacist who can prescribe. The role will be based in our practice alongside our clinicians including pharmacists already in surgery deployed from our PCN.
We are looking for a practice pharmacist to work closely with the team to ensure we deliver an effective, efficient and quality medicines management service to our patients and our team.
Main duties of the job
The Pharmacist will undertake the following tasks.
Medication reviews Face to face, remote and e-consultations) and proactively manage patients ( some with complex polypharmacy). This will include patient education,prescribing and monitoring as per guidelines and within professional competencies.
Work closely with the wider team, advising and supporting on medicine management issues.
Undertake prescribing audits.
Ensure that the practice is encouraged to promote cost effective prescribing.
Ensure medicines are prescribed and monitored as per the most current guidelines.
Ensure that the practice systems for drug safety and drug safety monitoring are adhered to at all times. This work will include regular safety audits.
Share knowledge and learning with the wider teams.
Attend regular practice meetings.
Represent the practice at outside events.
Contribute to achieving high IIF/ QOF targets.
Undertake medication reviews for housebound/care home patients as needed.
Take an active role to help/ support practice initiatives.
About us
Limes Medical Centre is based in Alfreton as well as a branch site in Blackwell. We currently have around 10,500 patients.
We have a friendly team of General Practitioners, including three partners, a nursing team and an admin and reception team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Carry out structured medication reviews on patients with complex polypharmacy, implementing prescribing decisions and requesting appropriate tests.
Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and the community pharmacists to ensure that the patients receive their medication post discharge.
Reconcile medicines from clinic letters with the support from the pharmacy technicians.
Support long term condition reviews via face to face and telephone appointments.
Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and re-admissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines.
Identify and address medicine related issues.
Assist in managing patients and healthcare professional medicine queries.
Increase patient quality and patient safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA cycles. The share the findings with the wider team.
Contribuite to service improvement within enhanced services & QOF
Implement drug withdrawals and alerts eg MHRA
Work with the primary care professional and patients to implement NICE and other evidence based guidelines.
Act as a source of medicine information for all of the practice team and patients eg around supplies, doses, side effects
Job description
Job responsibilities
Carry out structured medication reviews on patients with complex polypharmacy, implementing prescribing decisions and requesting appropriate tests.
Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and the community pharmacists to ensure that the patients receive their medication post discharge.
Reconcile medicines from clinic letters with the support from the pharmacy technicians.
Support long term condition reviews via face to face and telephone appointments.
Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and re-admissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines.
Identify and address medicine related issues.
Assist in managing patients and healthcare professional medicine queries.
Increase patient quality and patient safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA cycles. The share the findings with the wider team.
Contribuite to service improvement within enhanced services & QOF
Implement drug withdrawals and alerts eg MHRA
Work with the primary care professional and patients to implement NICE and other evidence based guidelines.
Act as a source of medicine information for all of the practice team and patients eg around supplies, doses, side effects
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Able to demonstrate practical experience of dealing with patients.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
- Experience of working in General Practice
- Has an awareness of a breadth of common acute and long term conditions likely to be seen in primary care
Qualifications
Essential
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- A UK accredited MPharm degree or OSPAP qualification.
- Hold an independent prescribing qualification
- Clinical Pharmacy Diploma
- 52 weeks of pre-registration training in England, Scotland or Wales signed off as satisfactory by your tutor.
- The GPhC registration assessment with a pass result.
- To be responsible for own professional development and maintain competence withing own clinical field.
- Post holder will also need to keep up with CPD requirements as specified by GPhC Completed or willing to enrol on the CCPE pathway
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Able to demonstrate practical experience of dealing with patients.
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
- Experience of working in General Practice
- Has an awareness of a breadth of common acute and long term conditions likely to be seen in primary care
Qualifications
Essential
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- A UK accredited MPharm degree or OSPAP qualification.
- Hold an independent prescribing qualification
- Clinical Pharmacy Diploma
- 52 weeks of pre-registration training in England, Scotland or Wales signed off as satisfactory by your tutor.
- The GPhC registration assessment with a pass result.
- To be responsible for own professional development and maintain competence withing own clinical field.
- Post holder will also need to keep up with CPD requirements as specified by GPhC Completed or willing to enrol on the CCPE pathway
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
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
