Independent Prescriber (Remote)

Job description

Job responsibilities

1.

Clinical assessment with or without Prescribing a range of medications (including controlled

drugs) to support recovery in line with national and organisational guidelines and policies.

2.

Prescribe cost effectively and according to best practice and provide prescribing information

and advice to Pharmacists, Shared Care GPs and hospital staff.

3.

Undertake Service User centred assessments, care planning, monitoring, evaluation and

reviews in practice and outreach settings.

4.

Blood Borne Virus (BBV) management (risk assessment, pre and post-test counselling,

testing and immunisation).

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5.

Deliver health promotion and harm reduction interventions in a client-centred manner (e.g.

safer sex, contraception, nutrition and healthy living).

6. Promote and deliver immunisation against Hepatitis B in line with national guidance.

7.

Contribute to the maintenance of client clinical database; co-ordinate data entry and

retrieval searches and reports to meet the internal and external service requirements as

appropriate and ensuring data security at all times.

8. Liaise with pharmacists regarding supervised dispensing and prescription queries.

9. Share care with GPs for Service Users in Primary Care Extended Services (PCES)/Primary

Care Recovery Services (PCRS).

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Technical/ Professional Qualifications
• Essential or
• Desirable
• First level registered nurse or registrered pharmacist E
• Independent Prescriber qualified. E
• RCGP Qualifications Level 1 (and 2 or willingness to work towards). E
• Skills
• Essential or
• Desirable
• Proficient in Microsoft Outlook Office programmes E
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• Experience of entering complex information onto an electronic / clinical data base. E
• Knowledge/ Previous Experience
• Essential or
• Desirable
• Experience in delivering evidence based treatments in Substance Misuse. E
• Previous experience of carrying out general health care assessment including
• BBV, and delivering health promotion/ harm reduction interventions, advice and
• information.
• E
• Awareness of social context of drug misuse and the wider implications of the
• behaviour.
• E
• Understanding of complexities of primary health care and the constrictions and
• opportunities inherent in the primary care sector.
• E

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Humankind Charity

Address

Inspiration House, Unit 22

North Industrial Estate

Bowburn

County Durham

DH6 5PF

Employer's website

https://humankindcharity.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)