Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

JOB TITLE: Primary Care Network Clinical Pharmacist

REPORTS TO: Practice Manager(s), GP Partners and Senior Clinical Pharmacist Supervisor

PARTICIPATING PRACTICES: Two or more within the East Lindsey GP PCN

JOB SUMMARY:

Responsible for support to East Lindsey GP Practices in implementing effective medicine management within the practice, identifying areas for improvement, and initiating and managing change as per the 3 year NHS England Clinical Pharmacists in General Practice pilot.

Patient Services

Delivery of patient services as determined by practice policy and local and national guidelines

Repeat prescribing, daily authorisation of repeats

Synchronise medication

Review discharge letters and A&E attendances

Review clinic letters requesting a change in medication

Manage urgent script requests

Complete a face to face review with patients who have a complex medication regime if needed

Liaise with hospital pharmacists

Complete annual mediation reviews for patients with long term conditions

Review nursing/care/residential homes medication reviews & de-prescribing

Consider 7 day scripts for vulnerable patients

Face to face consultation in clinics and as requested by the doctor both in Practice and domiciliary

Responsibility for Administration

To provide regular support and feedback to practice on prescribing action plans

To update and maintain accurate patient medication records on the practices clinical computer systems including advice given and action taken

To provide regular updates as agreed to the senior clinical pharmacist about their site

Complete CCG actions as agreed

To disseminate prescribing top tip to the clinical team on their site

To comply with practice prescribing policies

Communication:

The post holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

Communicate effectively with other team members

Communicate effectively with patients and carers

Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Report to Practice Manager(s), GP Partners and Senior Clinical Pharmacist Supervisor

Confidentiality:

• In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
• In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, site staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the site as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
• Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the participating practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the participating practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data

Health & safety:

The post-holder will implement and lead on the full range of promotion and management their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice health & safety policy, the practice health & safety manual, and the practice infection control policy and published procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):

Ensuring job holders across the site adhere to their individual responsibilities for infection control and health and safety, using a system of observation, audit and check, hazard identification, questioning, reporting and risk management.

Maintain and up to date knowledge of health and safety and infection control statutory and best practice guidelines and ensure implementation across the business

Using personal security systems within the workplace according to participating practice guidelines

Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks across the business

Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, and initiate and manage the training of others

Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards, and initiation of remedial / corrective action where needed

Actively identifying, reporting, and correction of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised

Keeping own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, identifying issues and hazards / risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with other sector managers

Undertaking periodic infection control training (minimum annually)

Routine management of own team / team areas, and maintenance of work space standards

Equality and Diversity:

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

• Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
• Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
• Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/professional development:

The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the participating practices as part of this employment, such training to include:

Participation in the provision of independent prescribing training if not already undertaken

• Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development
• Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work

Quality:

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the participating practices, and will:

• Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk
• Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision
• Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources

Contribution to the implementation of services:

The post-holder will:

• Apply practice policies, standards and guidance
• Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work
• Participate in audit where appropriate

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Current member of the GPhC
• Masters degree in Pharmacy or equivalent (MPharm)
• Evidence of CPD and commitment to life-long learning

Desirable

• Develop in role:
• Pharmacist prescriber

Experience

Essential

• Experience in initiating change and developments

Desirable

• Recent General Clinical Pharmacy Activity relevant to Primary Care
• Previous experience of providing prescribing advice or support in primary or secondary care
• Experience of delivering patient clinics or services

Work Related Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Understands the principles of pharmaceutical care planning and medication review
• Understanding of clinical therapeutics, particularly the elderly
• Effective comprehensive written and verbal communication skills.
• Good analytical and presentation skills (verbal and written)
• Proven writing skills
• Ability to work both as a team member and independently.
• Multi-disciplinary working
• Ability to plan own workload with priorities and objectives
• Basic IT literacy i.e. use of e-mail, the internet and word-processing
• Enhanced IT skills (including clinical systems, word-processing and spread sheets)
• Experience of using primary care clinical systems
• Ability to influence and negotiate change
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Develops ideas and plans that improve delivery of patient care
• Commitment to evidence-based practice
• Smart appearance
• Driving licence and access to a car
• Flexibility to attend occasional evening meetings

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).

Employer details

Employer name

East Lindsey Primary Care Network

Address

The Surgery

Mill Road

Market Rasen

Lincolnshire

LN8 3BP

Employer's website

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