Job summary
An exciting opportunity have arisen to recruit 3 experienced full time/ part time Clinical Pharmacists to join our multi-disciplinary team. If you are keen to work within primary care with a passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice, then we would like to hear from you.
Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team (MDT), the post holder will take a lead in driving forward the our vision of enhancing existing and innovatively developing new care models in a collaborative way.
This role plays a pivotal part in engaging groups of practices to come together and improve the quality of care and operational efficiencies across the local healthcare system, motivating passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice, whilst leading and tailoring the delivery of network priorities and targets with a practice based focus.
Within their professional boundaries, support the development, promotion and implementation of high quality evidence based research that enables the cost effective use of medicines in a way that maximises the benefits of medicines to patients whilst minimises clinical, legal, or financial risks.
The appointment will be made on a Fixed Term Contract and remote working from home will be considered
Main duties of the job
Prescribers in this vitally important patient-facing role will proactively shape structured medication reviews, ensuring that medicines management processes within the practice is optimised to achieve highly effective, safe, and patient centred prescribing. They will lead the way in supporting patients, where necessary in taking their medicines to get the best from them (especially patients with medication issues and/or those with long term conditions), reducing waste, de-scribing where appropriate and promoting enhanced self-care. Undertaking a very structured programme of training if the job holder has not had experience in primary care
Offering peer support and facilitating shared learning with other pharmacists in local practices across the networks to support the development of their role and implementing agreed prescribing and pharmaceutical activities or development programmes
There will be a specific focus on hypertension, and ensuring patients are treated optimally.
About us
Primary Care Support Services is dedicated to providing excellent clinical and non clinical support to our clients and the patients they care for. We are committed to providing a flexible and enjoyable place to work for our teams with lots of flexibility to work full time, part time, remotely and from home or in our brand new office.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical and Patient Client Care
Manage own case load of patients to deliver high quality SMRs and Hypertension reviews.
Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice, especially for long term conditions and signpost to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate where patients with single or multiple medical problems or where medicine optimisation is beyond the scope of competence (e.g. Respiratory, Cardiovascular and Diabetes).
Provide follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes from suggestions and recommendations made, including virtual advice for patients with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines and answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other network staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines.
Using structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote selfcare.
Liaises with colleagues including pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.
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.
Work in partnership with hospital colleagues to proactively manage patients at high risk of medicine related problems before they are discharged to ensure continuity of care. Reconciles medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.
On every occasion, produces accurate, contemporaneous, and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies, standards, and procedures.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical and Patient Client Care
Manage own case load of patients to deliver high quality SMRs and Hypertension reviews.
Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice, especially for long term conditions and signpost to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate where patients with single or multiple medical problems or where medicine optimisation is beyond the scope of competence (e.g. Respiratory, Cardiovascular and Diabetes).
Provide follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes from suggestions and recommendations made, including virtual advice for patients with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines and answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other network staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines.
Using structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote selfcare.
Liaises with colleagues including pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.
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.
Work in partnership with hospital colleagues to proactively manage patients at high risk of medicine related problems before they are discharged to ensure continuity of care. Reconciles medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.
On every occasion, produces accurate, contemporaneous, and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies, standards, and procedures.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- General Practice Pharmacist Training Pathway from CPPE, or equivalent qualification
- Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent qualification/experience
- Independent prescriber
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years experience as a primary care pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
- Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations.
- Experience and an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-terms conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
- An appreciation of the nature of the nature of GPs, practices and primary care prescribing concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
Other Skills
Desirable
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical data and information
- Able to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol.
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer these where required for resolution.
- Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making. Communication & Relationships
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiation, written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrable ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)
- Able to appropriately build relationships to gain the cooperation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, other professionals)
- Able to gain acceptance influence, motivate, persuade and engage audiences in agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers to overcome
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- General Practice Pharmacist Training Pathway from CPPE, or equivalent qualification
- Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent qualification/experience
- Independent prescriber
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years experience as a primary care pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
- Experience of partnership/collaborative working and of building relationships across a variety of organisations.
- Experience and an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-terms conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
- An appreciation of the nature of the nature of GPs, practices and primary care prescribing concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
Other Skills
Desirable
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical data and information
- Able to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol.
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer these where required for resolution.
- Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making. Communication & Relationships
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiation, written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrable ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)
- Able to appropriately build relationships to gain the cooperation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, other professionals)
- Able to gain acceptance influence, motivate, persuade and engage audiences in agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers to overcome
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).
