Job responsibilities
Job Summary
The post holder is a pharmacist, who acts within their
professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a multidisciplinary team. In this role they will
be supported by a senior clinical pharmacist who will develop, manage and
mentor them.
The post holder will:
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in
a patient facing role. The post holder will take responsibility for areas of
chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical
medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.
- Provide primary support to the Community Pain Pathway
staff with regards to prescription and medication
queries,
while addressing both public and social care needs of patient in primary
care.
- Provide clinical leadership on medicines
optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and
outcomes framework. They will collaborate with primary and secondary care colleagues to
ensure best possible outcomes for our patients.
- Be given opportunities for service development projects,
production of policies, procedures to assist in the smooth delivery of
community pain pathways to the local community within primary care. You will
also help to support answering daily tasks and medication queries.
- Ensure that the pain service
integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix,
improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage
workload. The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational
efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service
within general practice.
- Ideally be a non-medical prescriber or working towards gaining
such qualification. You will be given opportunities to participate in local and
national learning events to enhance specialist knowledge
Primary
Duties and Areas of Responsibility
Patient facing or telephone Clinical Medication Review
Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and
produce recommendations for Primary Care Clinicians including colleagues within
the pain team.
Where appropriate, the provision of prescription for
the patient might be required.
Patient medicines support
Provide expert patient advice for those with questions, queries and
concerns about their medicines in the practice
Medicine information to practice staff and patients
Answers all medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes
Signposting
Ensure that patients are referred to the
appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an
appropriate period of time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute
conditions, long term condition reviews etc.
Service development
Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the
development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components
(e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).
Information management
Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to
highlight issues and risks to support decision making.
Medicines quality improvement
Undertake simple audits of prescribing in areas
directed by the line manager, feedback the
results and implement changes in conjunction with the pain
team.
Medicines safety
Implement changes to medicines that result from
MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
Implementation of local and national
guidelines and formulary recommendations
Monitor practice prescribing against the local formulary list and make recommendations to GPs. Assist
pain team in seeing and maintaining a
practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system. Provide
newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.
Education and Training
Provide education and training to colleagues within
team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
Care Quality Commission
Work with the pain team
to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines
are involved.
Public health
To support public health campaigns. To provide
specialist knowledge on public health programmes available to the general
public.
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 pain clinic.
- 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 when appropriate
- Able to follow legal, ethical,
professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct
- Ensures shared decision making when
advising about changes to patients pain medications.
- Has sound clinical knowledge,
especially around medications used in treatment of persistent non-cancer
pain.
- Is aware of local guidelines related to
managing persistent non-caner pain.
- Involves patients in decisions about
prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidelines.
Collaborative Working Relationships
- Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care
- Demonstrates 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. ICB)
- Demonstrates ability to work as a member of a team
- Is able to 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
- Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships
- Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams
- Liaises with ICB colleagues including PCN and ICB Pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit
- Liaises with colleagues from the pain services and primary and secondary 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 PCN and ICB 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
Please download the supporting documentation for full role details and to assist with your application.
