Job summary
Unfortunately NPC does not hold a license for Visa Sponsorship and cannot progress any applications for candidates without the right to work in the UK.
Positions available:
2 x Permanent - 37.5 hours per week
Salary: Dependent on Experience
You will receive
full support to work towards achieving your prescribing qualification.
About the Practice
Millwood Surgery is a well-established GP practice serving approximately 19,800 registered patients. Our multidisciplinary team includes 8 salaried GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, a dedicated pharmacy team, and an in-house home visiting team, supported by experienced nurses, healthcare assistants, and administrative staff. We also work closely with colleagues within our Primary Care Network (PCN), providing additional support from a wider multidisciplinary team to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is a
pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, working alongside a
team of pharmacists in general practice and within the Primary Care Network.
They will improve patients health outcomes and the efficiency of the Primary
Care team by providing direct, accessible and timely medicines expertise
including face to face contact with patients. They will work to optimise
medication issues to improve patient care, safety and support clinical staff in
the management of patients.
The post holder will
be an integral part of the General Practice team, working in one or more
practices across the Primary Care Network, as well as part of a wider
pharmacist network and multidisciplinary team. This includes being a conduit of
patient medicines information into and out of Acute General Hospitals.
You will receive
full support to work towards achieving your prescribing qualification.
About us
Norfolk Primary Care Ltdis a Community Interest Company. It was established to:
- Support and strengthen primary care and to promote and assist practices to improve quality by working with and on behalf of primary care in Norfolk.
- Help with challenges identified by practices workload, GP recruitment, sharing best practice.
- Recognise the changing nature of primary care and assist to ensure that the right level of service is provided to address the needs of the local population.
- Provide benefit to patients of primary care, the clinicians and administrators who work in it and practice organisations in Norfolk.
- Work within health systems to provide patient care in innovative and solution-focused ways.
- We offer successful candidates a supportive working environment, competitive salary, excellent working conditions and the benefits of the NHS pension scheme. Other benefits include access to NHS discounts and discounted First Bus travel.
- If you are interested in working in an organisation committed to a culture of professionalism, growth, integrity, positivity and kindness then we would love to hear from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a
patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using expert
knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
- Provide pharmaceutical consultations to patients
with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team.
- Provide proactive leadership on medicines and
prescribing systems to the PCN multidisciplinary team, patients and their
carers
- Improve patient and carer understanding of,
confidence in and compliance with their medication.
- Provide advice and answer medication related
queries from patients and staff
- Organise and oversee the PCNs medicines
optimisation systems including the repeat prescribing and medication review
systems.
- Working in partnership with pharmacists and
clinicians in Acute General Hospital Hospitals, to improve the safety and
quality of prescribing after discharge from hospital admissions and attendance.
- Improve the quality and effectiveness of
prescribing through clinical audit and education to improve performance against
NICE standards, and clinical and prescribing guidance.
- Develop yourself and the role through
participation in clinical supervision, training and service redesign
activities.
- Contribute to a patient safety culture through
reporting and investigation of medicines incidents and undertaking proactive
measures to improve patient safety.
- Work with community pharmacists, hospital
pharmacists, and other stakeholders in the medicines supply chain to improve
patient experience and manage incidents.
- Deliver training, mentoring and guidance to
other clinicians and staff on medicine issues.
- Provide leadership within the pharmacy team and
offer supervision to pharmacy technicians within the team if appropriate.
Core competencies
1. Patient
facing clinical services and care
- Manage a caseload of complex patients and potential care
institutions
- Provide advice for the GP management of more complex patients
or areas such as addictive behaviours, severe mental illness or end of life
care
- Develop a specialist area of interest
- Conduct medication reviews and agree medicines care plans in
agreement with patients and carers
- Delivering long term conditions clinics and home visits
particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes and prescribe
accordingly
- Consult patients for acute illnesses within defined levels of
competence and independently prescribe medication
- Prescribe acute and repeat medication for patient need within
areas of competency
- Receive referrals and directed patients from triage services
and other clinicians
-
Provide targeted support and pro-active review for
vulnerable, complex patients and those at risk of admission and re-admission to
secondary care
-
Receive and resolve medicines queries from patients and other
staff
-
Contribute to public health campaigns (e.g. flu clinics)
through advice or direct care
-
Provide specific advice and support to patients in care homes
and support staff
-
Provide help and advice on medicines use to patients and
their carers
-
Promote self-management and develop patient support systems
-
Manage therapeutic drug monitoring system and recall of
patients taking high risk drugs i.e. anticoagulants, anticonvulsants and DMARDs
etc
-
Support virtual and remote models of consultation and support
including e-consultations, remote medication review and telehealth and
telemedicine.
2. Medicines optimisation
Systems
-
Investigate and feedback on examples of best practice and
formulate how to apply these
-
Working with other Clinical Pharmacists to review overall
efficiency of PCN arrangements; reduce duplication and suggest improvements in
use of skills
-
Organize and oversee repeat prescribing, repeat dispensing,
electronic prescribing and medication review systems
-
Provide leadership and support to prescription
administrative/dispensary staff
-
Handle prescription queries and requests directly
-
Oversee system for reconciliation of medicines from
outpatient and discharge letters and support safe transfer of care through
liaison with hospital and community colleagues
-
Liaise with other stakeholders in the supply chain such as
community pharmacists and appliance contractors to handle queries and manage
supply problems
-
Support delivery of QOF, incentive schemes, QIPP and other
quality or cost effectiveness initiatives
-
Agree and review Prescribing Formularies and Protocols and
monitor compliance levels
-
Improve the data quality of medicines records and linking to
conditions.
3. Safety
-
Report medicines related incidents, contribute to
investigations and root cause analyses
-
Participate in serious incident investigations and
multidisciplinary case reviews
-
Report Adverse Drug Reactions and promote reporting by MDT
-
Oversee use and monitoring of high-risk drugs and drugs of
abuse
-
Action and response to Drug Safety Alerts and other safety
cascades.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a
patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using expert
knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
- Provide pharmaceutical consultations to patients
with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team.
- Provide proactive leadership on medicines and
prescribing systems to the PCN multidisciplinary team, patients and their
carers
- Improve patient and carer understanding of,
confidence in and compliance with their medication.
- Provide advice and answer medication related
queries from patients and staff
- Organise and oversee the PCNs medicines
optimisation systems including the repeat prescribing and medication review
systems.
- Working in partnership with pharmacists and
clinicians in Acute General Hospital Hospitals, to improve the safety and
quality of prescribing after discharge from hospital admissions and attendance.
- Improve the quality and effectiveness of
prescribing through clinical audit and education to improve performance against
NICE standards, and clinical and prescribing guidance.
- Develop yourself and the role through
participation in clinical supervision, training and service redesign
activities.
- Contribute to a patient safety culture through
reporting and investigation of medicines incidents and undertaking proactive
measures to improve patient safety.
- Work with community pharmacists, hospital
pharmacists, and other stakeholders in the medicines supply chain to improve
patient experience and manage incidents.
- Deliver training, mentoring and guidance to
other clinicians and staff on medicine issues.
- Provide leadership within the pharmacy team and
offer supervision to pharmacy technicians within the team if appropriate.
Core competencies
1. Patient
facing clinical services and care
- Manage a caseload of complex patients and potential care
institutions
- Provide advice for the GP management of more complex patients
or areas such as addictive behaviours, severe mental illness or end of life
care
- Develop a specialist area of interest
- Conduct medication reviews and agree medicines care plans in
agreement with patients and carers
- Delivering long term conditions clinics and home visits
particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes and prescribe
accordingly
- Consult patients for acute illnesses within defined levels of
competence and independently prescribe medication
- Prescribe acute and repeat medication for patient need within
areas of competency
- Receive referrals and directed patients from triage services
and other clinicians
-
Provide targeted support and pro-active review for
vulnerable, complex patients and those at risk of admission and re-admission to
secondary care
-
Receive and resolve medicines queries from patients and other
staff
-
Contribute to public health campaigns (e.g. flu clinics)
through advice or direct care
-
Provide specific advice and support to patients in care homes
and support staff
-
Provide help and advice on medicines use to patients and
their carers
-
Promote self-management and develop patient support systems
-
Manage therapeutic drug monitoring system and recall of
patients taking high risk drugs i.e. anticoagulants, anticonvulsants and DMARDs
etc
-
Support virtual and remote models of consultation and support
including e-consultations, remote medication review and telehealth and
telemedicine.
2. Medicines optimisation
Systems
-
Investigate and feedback on examples of best practice and
formulate how to apply these
-
Working with other Clinical Pharmacists to review overall
efficiency of PCN arrangements; reduce duplication and suggest improvements in
use of skills
-
Organize and oversee repeat prescribing, repeat dispensing,
electronic prescribing and medication review systems
-
Provide leadership and support to prescription
administrative/dispensary staff
-
Handle prescription queries and requests directly
-
Oversee system for reconciliation of medicines from
outpatient and discharge letters and support safe transfer of care through
liaison with hospital and community colleagues
-
Liaise with other stakeholders in the supply chain such as
community pharmacists and appliance contractors to handle queries and manage
supply problems
-
Support delivery of QOF, incentive schemes, QIPP and other
quality or cost effectiveness initiatives
-
Agree and review Prescribing Formularies and Protocols and
monitor compliance levels
-
Improve the data quality of medicines records and linking to
conditions.
3. Safety
-
Report medicines related incidents, contribute to
investigations and root cause analyses
-
Participate in serious incident investigations and
multidisciplinary case reviews
-
Report Adverse Drug Reactions and promote reporting by MDT
-
Oversee use and monitoring of high-risk drugs and drugs of
abuse
-
Action and response to Drug Safety Alerts and other safety
cascades.
Person Specification
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information effectively with people at all levels by telephone, email and face to face
- Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiation skills organisation skills with the ability to constructively challenge the view and practices of managers and clinicians
- Ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
- Good IT skills
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
- Ability to use own initiative, discretion and sensitivity
Desirable
- Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
- Full driving license
Qualifications
Essential
- Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General
- Pharmaceutical Council
- Hold or be working towards an independent prescribing qualification
- Self-development through continuous professional development activity
- CPPE PCPEP completed or in progress of completing
Desirable
- Participation in the delivery of a formal education programme
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- A Member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of a 2 years experience as a pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice
- portfolio
- An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practice. An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for
- improving prescribing
- Experience and an awareness of common acute and long-term condition s that are likely to be seen in general practice
- An appreciation of the new NHS landscape including the relationship between individual providers, PCNs and commissioners
Desirable
- Understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and service
- In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
- Understanding of the mentorship process
Person Specification
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information effectively with people at all levels by telephone, email and face to face
- Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiation skills organisation skills with the ability to constructively challenge the view and practices of managers and clinicians
- Ability to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
- Good IT skills
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
- Ability to use own initiative, discretion and sensitivity
Desirable
- Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
- Full driving license
Qualifications
Essential
- Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General
- Pharmaceutical Council
- Hold or be working towards an independent prescribing qualification
- Self-development through continuous professional development activity
- CPPE PCPEP completed or in progress of completing
Desirable
- Participation in the delivery of a formal education programme
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- A Member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of a 2 years experience as a pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice
- portfolio
- An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practice. An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for
- improving prescribing
- Experience and an awareness of common acute and long-term condition s that are likely to be seen in general practice
- An appreciation of the new NHS landscape including the relationship between individual providers, PCNs and commissioners
Desirable
- Understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and service
- In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
- Understanding of the mentorship process
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
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).
