Pharmacist (Primary Care) - Forest View Medical Centre

Job description

Job responsibilities

DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

Co-ordinating, supporting and liaising with other health professions, including hospital clinical staff on interface issues. This will include reconciliation of medicines on discharge from secondary/tertiary care.

Co-ordinating, supporting and liaising with community pharmacists on local initiatives such as the common ailments scheme.

Managing prescribing related conflict in relation to potentially difficult patients/health care professionals.

Providing and delivering educational material to members of the Practice team, support staff and members of the general public.

Providing patient education to empower them to self-care through better understanding and improved compliance of their medicines.

Developing and delivering verbal and written reports to Practice staff, other members of the primary health care team, their support staff and members of the general public at an appropriate level.

Providing medicines, therapeutic and pharmaceutical expertise and information to Health Care Professionals when required.

Educating other members of the primary healthcare team in specific therapeutic areas and the reasons behind why changes should be instigated.

Communicating and ensuring that all health care professionals in the Practice are aware of any medical alerts, national public health circulars, recalls and CSM warnings.

It is essential to have:

• A Masters Degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent pharmacy degree

• A Post graduate qualification in Clinical/community Pharmacy Diploma or equivalent experience

• Minimum of 3 years post qualification experience in hospital/community/GP practice pharmacy

• Be a Registered member of the general pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

• To participate in life-long learning as part of the Continuing Professional Development programme and maintain an individual profile and portfolio of evidence supporting that profile.

• A good general Knowledge of prescribing and pharmaceutical systems and processes, knowledge of Professional, Legal and governance issues surrounding prescribing, dispensing and primary care.

• A working knowledge of audit, monitoring financial prescribing data and IT systems such as Word and Excel

• Analysing patient prescribing data and advising on the development of appropriate treatment protocols and care pathways.

• Advising on national and local prescribing indicators and implementing change where necessary.

• Ensuring all advice is in accordance with agreed standards and professional ethics of the GPhC and Royal Pharmaceutical Society of GB.

• Highlighting potential areas where the practice may need to amend their prescribing habits and supporting the practice in implementing the changes.

• Working with Health Care professionals and appropriate support staff to plan and carry out improvements to systems and policies where previous strategies have been demonstrated to be ineffective.

• Developing, co-ordinating and supporting medicines management projects in the locality.

• Analysing practice prescribing data and providing appropriate feedback.

• Preparing detailed practice prescribing reports following annual prescribing visits.

• Conveying drug, therapeutics and prescribing information to all healthcare professionals and their support staff in order to agree work plans within targeted therapeutic areas.

• Contributing to development, implementation and updating of the Practice drugs and therapeutics formulary.

• Contributes to the development and implementation of plans to facilitate changes in prescribing.

• Developing, co-ordinating and supporting medicines management projects within the Practice.

• Support the practice in providing quality patient care e.g. via GMS QIF targets

• Planning, organising and undertaking pharmacist led clinics such as patient medication reviews in GP practices in order to promote good medicines management and medicines optimisation for individual patients. This process includes the following responsibilities:

o Identifying patients for potential medication changes in specific therapeutic areas. This may include specialist groups of patients such as nursing and residential homes or visiting patients in their own home.

o Carrying out an initial assessment of the patients medication and arranging for any necessary drug monitoring.

o Inviting patients to the practice and carrying out the medication review with the patient and their carer where appropriate. All prescribed, over-the-counter and complementary medicines should be included.

o Ensuring the patients (and or carer) basic understanding of their medicines and concordance with any agreed treatment protocol

o Documenting any recommendations as a result of the medication review and discussing with a GP as appropriate.

o Implementing any agreed changes.

o Communicating any changes to the patient and/or carer, and relevant Health Care Professionals e.g. Community Pharmacist.

o Ensuring any necessary follow up as a result of the medication review e.g. checking results of blood tests, are carried out.

o Identifying and signposting patients where health and wellbeing advice or actions are agreed e.g. smoking cessation services.

Monitoring patients on high risk medicines including those on shared care arrangements to ensure clinical and safety criteria are met prior to the issuing of the prescription.

As a registered independent non-medical prescriber to prescribe medicines for patients working.

o To ensure prescribing activities comply with legal requirements and GPHCs guidance for non-medical prescribers.

Highlighting potential areas where practices may need to amend their prescribing habits and supporting the practice in implementing the changes.

Working with Health Care professionals and appropriate support staff to plan and carry out improvements to systems and policies where previous strategies have been demonstrated to be ineffective.

Monitors practice prescribing expenditure against budget on behalf of the Practice in order to fulfil statutory obligations to keep primary care drug costs within that budget.

Advises practice on prescribing expenditure, reducing costs where appropriate without detriment to patient care.

Contributes to the development and implementation of plans to facilitate changes in prescribing.

Providing and delivering educational material to members of the primary healthcare team, support staff and members of the general public.

Contributes to supervision and developing work plans for sessional pharmacists and prescribing support technicians/officers.

Responsible for developing and prioritising work plan for pharmacy team administrative support, to ensure information is disseminated in a timely and appropriate manner.

Educating other members of the primary healthcare team in specific therapeutic areas and the reasons behind why changes should be instigated.

Ability to use a computer with a working knowledge of pharmacy, GP and other IT systems such as Word and Excel.

Developing and delivering verbal and detailed written reports to staff, other members of the primary health care team, their support staff and members of the general public at an appropriate level.

Providing drug, therapeutic and pharmacy practice information to Health Care Professionals and the general public when required.

Knowledge and experience of audit /research methodologies in order to monitor and improve prescribing practices.

Accountable for own professional actions, which must comply with current legislation and Practice policies. The recommendations contained within the Code of Ethics as issued by the General Pharmaceutical Council and the obligations in the Standards of Good Professional Practice will be upheld at all times.

Ability to prioritise own workload effectively

Ability to work and act alone without direct supervision in accordance with professional and national guidelines.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualification Specifications
• Essential
• Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent e.g. BSc/BPharm/MPharm
• Registered member of the general pharmaceutical council (GPhC)
• Appropriate post graduate qualification e.g. Clinical/Community diploma or equivalent experience
• Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
• Desirable
• Related postgraduate qualifications e.g Research/Public Health/Ethics
• Independent prescriber
• Active membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of GB
• Evidence of building towards RPS Faculty submission
• Postgraduate certificate/diploma/Masters in diabetes care
• Experience Specifications
• Essential
• Sufficient post qualification with experience in a variety of community or hospital pharmacy settings
• Audit/research experience
• Working within a multidisciplinary team
• Monitoring financial expenditure
• Desirable
• Previous experience working in a Primary Care setting
• Previous experience conducting medication reviews
• Previous experience running clinics in GP practices
• Additional Criteria
• Essential
• n/a
• Desirable

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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

GP Practice in Wales (Employer will vary)

Address

Forest View Medical Centre

Abergorki Industrial Estate

Treorchy

Mid Glamorgan

CF42 6DL

Employer's website

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