Practice Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Medication Review and Optimisation:

Face to face clinics:

o To discuss medication issues with patients as needed and appropriate e.g. adverse effects/interactions, overdose/inadvertent ingestion, OTC remedies, queries from care homes.

o To carry out medication reviews and to discuss specific issues

o To review and continue repeat medications for new patients who have just registered with the practice, and suggest GP medication review where appropriate.

To discuss medication issues with patients as needed and appropriate by telephone, e.g. adverse effects/interactions, overdose/inadvertent ingestion, OTC remedies, queries from care homes.

To respond to queries to include, re-authorise repeats where there are queries, clarify doses, clarify products, give appropriate alternatives when availability issues.

To discuss specific patient and prescribing issues (e.g. complicated regimes/polypharmacy, compliance difficulties, multiple adverse effects, medication reduction regimes) with other clinicians as necessary.

To support the completion (medication administration) forms for district nurses for GPs to sign.

To visit nursing homes to carry out reviews of MAR sheets/patients medications when required.

Medicines Reconciliation:

To review secondary care requests for new medication (as communicated by discharge summaries, outpatient letters, etc.) and raise any queries with relevant GP, and discuss how to respond when inappropriate prescribing requests arise.

Medicines Information/Education:

To monitor and inform colleagues as relevant about ongoing prescribing issues, e.g. new guidelines (national and local), new products being asked for by secondary care, manufacturing and supply problems, new prescribing restrictions or contraindications, and individual and systematic errors made by colleagues.

To advise on cost effective prescribing and prescribing budget issues.

To keep the prescribing folder on the practice intranet up to date, with admin support.

Prescribing Systems and Policies:

To identify patients in need of medication review and develop the system of patient invitation with the admin team.

To liaise with Lead GP, Practice Manger, admin and clinical staff in discussing, developing, and implementing medicines management systems in the practice.

To work with the GPs (especially the prescribing lead), practice manager & Prescribing Team to review, develop and implement prescribing policies and strategies for the whole practice.

To suggest, design & carry out audits in relation to prescribing targets, implementation of locality policies, Quality Improvement Framework and CEPP work.

To work with the GPs, practice manager, and dispensary manager on choosing and delivering targets for the local Prescribing Incentive Scheme (PIS).

To monitor the practices prescribing performance (via the CCG prescribing dashboard, progress on the PIS, ePACT, etc.), and suggest changes to practice prescribing as appropriate.

To support the delivery of electronic prescribing.

To work with the dispensary team and lead dispensing GP to maximize profitability and to perform audits.

Liaison with community and hospital pharmacies:

To support and advise dispensary when needed.

To make best use of community pharmacy medicine use reviews (MURs) for medication reviews.

To rationalise requests for dossette medications. Dispensary will still be responsible for ringing round re availability of products, taking initial calls, requesting new dosettes etc.

Teaching/training:

We are a training practice, and often have learners (GP trainees, medical students and PN trainees) sit in on consultations and occasionally having tutorials one-to-one. The Practice Pharmacist will be sometimes asked to participate in the education of trainees in these settings

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• 1. GPhC Registered Pharmacist

Desirable

• 2. GPhC Independent Prescriber Qualification

Experience

Essential

• Minimum two years experience of pharmacy - not necessarily General Practice

Desirable

• Experience of working in a GP practice

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

Cwmbran Village Surgery

Address

Victoria Street

Cwmbran

Gwent

NP44 3JS

Employer's website

https://www.cwmbranvillagesurgery.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)