Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main Duties

1

To support new ways of working and workflow redesign to successfully embed pharmacists within general practice.

2

To contribute to discharge advice, note reconciliation, medication reviews/reauthorisations within a busy practice.

3

Provide professional specialist medicines management advice to GPs, practice nurses, community pharmacists, community nurses and other health professionals to promote the safe, effective and high-quality, cost-effective use of medicines in all prescribing decisions.

4

To identify, develop and promote quality improvements in medicines management across community pharmacy & GP practices ensuring that best practice is adopted.

5

Provide support for the medicines management technician(s)/facilitator(s) to deliver the medicines management goals.

6

To contribute to the development and implementation of the practice prescribing strategy and medicines management initiatives across the ICB.

7

To encourage better pharmaceutical understanding throughout the primary health care team, including training of GPs practice nurses, practice staff, attached staff, community pharmacists and pharmacy staff.

8

Undertake risk assessment and management and ensure compliance with medicines legislation.

9

Liaise with prescribing colleagues primary and secondary care to ensure consistency with District-wide prescribing strategies.

10

To contribute to the development & implementation of new medicines management initiatives and services within GP practices, community pharmacies and community providers.

11

Contribute to the clinical medication review service to care homes and other work streams as required.

Key Responsibilities

1

To provide and receive complex information relating to medicines and medicines management

This includes clinical information regarding patient care, technical medicines management/therapeutics information and prescribing activity data derived from audit data, ePACT and similar sources

The post holder will need to receive this from and provide it to patients, carers and other health professionals. He/she may need to persuade the recipients of the validity and relevance of the information/argument, and negotiate actions in line with Medicines Management goals

The post holder may have to adjust his/her communication style and content to take account of the other persons language difficulties, intellectual abilities, background knowledge, etc

2

To analyse, interpret and compare complex information and/or a range of options

This will usually, but not always, relate the topics outlined above

The post holder will apply his/her technical knowledge to complex clinical and/or medicines management situations.

3

To provide highly specialised advice concerning care of individual patients and groups of patients

This includes advice on choice of drug treatment, including choice of drug(s), side effects and doses

This advice will be in response to review and analysis of patient prescriptions and ePACT data

This will also involve ensuring compliance with medicines legislation, National Patient Safety Agency advisory notices and other established good practice to manage and minimise risk.

4

To propose and implement policy or service changes that impact within and beyond the post holders own role, including work within the practice, community pharmacies and by community nurses. This includes the development of prescribing / medicines management guidelines and protocols.

5

To plan and organise the post holders own workload, including audit and project work and training sessions for members of the medicines management team, practice team, community pharmacy team, community nurse team, patients, carers, etc.

6

To prioritise, supervise and support the day to day work of medicines management technician(s)/facilitators(s) working under the direction of the post-holder. This includes any agreed HR-related activity and any formal and informal teaching of Medicines management colleagues as required.

7

To work to ensure best value for money and avoidance of waste in relation to medicines and contribute to the reduction in fraud related to medicines and pharmacy consistent with the post holders position in the organisation.

8

To record personally generated information and maintain a database of information relating to the work done in the practice(s)

personally generated information includes information and records relating to audit and clinical work undertaken by the post holder, reference notes relating to clinical/technical information, etc the data base includes maintaining up-to-date, detailed records of all work done in the practices for which the post holder is accountable (done by the post holder or others)

9

To participate in clinical trials, audits, etc as appropriate. This is an integral part of the job and will take place at least monthly.

10

The post holder act as a specialist within his/her area and has discretion to work within the parameters defined by the post holders line manager and more senior medicines management staff.

11

To maintain registration as a pharmacist and comply with appropriate professional codes.

12

As appropriate to the post, to maintain and develop professional competence and expertise, keep up to date with medical/therapeutic evidence and opinion, and local and national service, legislation and policy developments, agree objectives and a personal development plan and participate in the appraisal process.

13

To attend local, regional and national meetings of relevance.

14

To deputise for senior members of the Medicines Management Team, as appropriate.

15

To undertake any other duties commensurate with the post holders grade

as agreed with the post holders line manager.

16

All employees should understand that it is their personal responsibility to comply with all organisational and statutory requirements e.g. Health and Safety, Equal Treatment and Diversity; Confidentiality and Clinical Governance.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Prescribing qualification or currently registered on GP pharmacist training pathway /NMP prescribing qualification
• Demonstrates an understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice.
• Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management

Desirable

• Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
• Successful completion of the CPPE General Practice Pharmacist Training Pathway

Experience

Essential

• Commensurable experience working at advanced level 1 of the RPS pharmacy framework, demonstrated within practice portfolio
• Experience and an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-terms conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice
• Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams and community groups
• Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations
• Able to provide and receive highly complex/contentious optimisation/therapeutic information to a multi-professional audience.
• Able to analyse and interpret complex prescribing information.
• Experience of communicating and engaging effectively with external agencies/stakeholder.

Desirable

• Experience within inclusion health

Skills and Specialist Knowledge

Essential

• .Demonstrates the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
• Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social, economic and environmental factors and their impact on communities
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
• Knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails and the internet to create simple plans and reports
• Able to plan, manage, monitor and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information. Able to think analytically; anticipating obstacles and thinking ahead; using analytical techniques to identify several solutions.
• Able to gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
• Able to plan complex medicines management projects and programmes
• Able to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol.
• Understand the principles of research governance

Additional Requirements

Essential

• Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions
• Adaptable
• Work effectively independently and as a team player
• Self-motivated
• Safeguarding and other mandatory training

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

Bevan Healthcare CIC

Address

14-16 Piccadilly

Bradford

BD1 3LS

Employer's website

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