Job responsibilities
COLLABORATIVE WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:
The post holder will:
- Recognise the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care
- Demonstrate use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g. CCGs)
- Demonstrate ability to work as a member of a team
- Recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary
- Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality
- Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality
- Explore the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships
- Demonstrate ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams
- Liaise with CCG colleagues including CCG Pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit
- Liaise with CCG pharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management/ Optimisation to benefit from peer support
- Liaise with other GP Practices and staff as needed for the collective benefit of patients including but not limited to:
- Patients
- GP, Nurses and other practice staff
- Other healthcare professionals including CCG pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, optometrists, dentists, health and social care teams and dieticians etc
- Locality / GP prescribing lead
- Locality managers
- Community nurses and other allied health professionals
- Community and hospital pharmacy teams
- Hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimisation
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
- Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Minimum of 2 years experience as a pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio
- Has experience and an awareness of common acute and long term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice
- May hold or be working towards an independent prescribing qualification.
- Recognises priorities when problem-solving and identifies deviations from normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
- Able to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct
- Involves patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidelines.
NB: it is anticipated of qualification held may vary according to the level of position and the components of the role being carried out, see person specification that the level.
LEADERSHIP:
- Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace.
- Demonstrate understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision
- Engage with Patient Participation Groups (PPGs) and involves PPGs in development of the role and practices
- Demonstrate ability to improve quality within limitations of service
- Review yearly progress and develops clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others.
- Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve goals
- Promote diversity and equality in people management techniques and leads by example.
MANAGEMENT:
- Demonstrate understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service
- Demonstrate understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation
- Demonstrate understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice
- Demonstrate ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol
- Follow professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management
- Demonstrate ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team
EDUCATION, TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT:
- Understand and demonstrate the characteristics of a role model to members in the team and/or service
- Demonstrate understanding of the mentorship process
- Demonstrate ability to conduct teaching and assessment effectively according to a learning plan with supervision from more experience colleague
- Demonstrate self-development through continuous professional development activity; working alongside Senior Clinical Pharmacist to identifying areas to develop
- Participate in the delivery of formal education programmes
- Demonstrate an understanding of current educational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keeps up to date with relevant clinical practice.
- Ensure appropriate clinical supervision is in place to support development
- Enrol into review and appraisal systems within the practice
RESEARCH AND EVALUATION:
The post holder will:
- Demonstrate ability to critically evaluate and review literature
- Demonstrate ability to identify where there is a gap in the evidence base to support practice
- Demonstrate ability to generate evidence suitable for presentations at practice and local level
- Demonstrate ability to apply research evidence base into working place
- Demonstrate understanding of principles of research governance.
HEALTH AND SAFETY/RISK MANAGEMENT:
- Must comply at all times with the Practices Health and Safety policies, in particular by following agreed safe working procedures and reporting incidents using the organisations Incident Reporting System.
- Will comply with the Data Protection Act (1984) and the Access to Health Records Act (1990).
EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY:
- Co-operate with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment. Co-workers, patients and visitors must be treated equally irrespective of gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc.
RESPECT FOR PATIENT CONFIDENTIALITY:
- Respect patient confidentiality at all times and not divulge patient information unless sanctioned by the requirements of the role.
SPECIAL WORKING CONDITIONS:
- Travel independently between practice sites (where applicable), and to attend meetings etc hosted by other agencies.
- Have contact with body fluids ie, wound exudates; urine etc while in clinical practice.
