Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our dynamic and
forward-thinking Pharmacy Team! Based across our network of 6 practices within
the Primary Care Network (PCN), you'll become an integral part of a supportive
and collaborative team of Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians. This is your
chance to take on a rewarding role where your skills will contribute directly
to improving patient health outcomes in our community.
Main duties of the job
In this role, the post holder will work as an integral part of a multi-disciplinary team, contributing both administratively and in direct patient-facing interactions.
A key responsibility of the post holder will be conducting clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy, ensuring their treatment regimens are both safe and effective.
The post holder will serve as a primary point of contact for general practice staff, providing expert advice on prescription and medication queries. They will play a crucial role in supporting the repeat prescription system, handling acute prescription requests, conducting medicines reconciliation during transfers of care, and implementing systems for safer prescribing. Additionally, they will offer expert clinical guidance on medicines, addressing the public and social care needs of patients.
About us
North Wilts Border PCN is a collaborative NHS partnership
made up of six GP surgeries, working together to deliver high-quality,
patient-centred care to over 54,000 people across our local communities. We are
proud to be rooted in our community and are committed to staying connected with
and supporting the people we serve.
In addition to our dedication to clinical excellence, we are
also a teaching and training network, supporting medical students from the
University of Bath and GP trainees from across the South West region.
Our diverse multidisciplinary team includes Specialist
Practitioners, Health & Wellbeing Coach, Care Coordinator, and Clinical
Directors. We place great value on the contributions of our Pharmacy team and
are committed to supporting the personal and professional development of all
staff.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key
duties and responsibilities
- Patient facing Long term condition clinics (where
appropriate).
-
See (where appropriate) patients with single or
multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD,
asthma, Diabetes).
-
Review the on-going need for each medicine, a
review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their
medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e.
medicines optimisation).
-
Make appropriate recommendations to Senior
Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement.
Telephone
or Patient facing Clinical Medication Review
- Undertake
clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for
senior clinical pharmacist team leader, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and
monitoring.
Telephone
or Patient facing care home medication reviews
- Undertake
clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the
senior clinical pharmacist, nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Work
with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and
administration.
- Domiciliary
clinical medication review
- Undertake
clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the
senior clinical pharmacists, nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.
Management
of common/minor/self-limiting ailments
-
Managing caseload of patients with
common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice
and limits of competence.
-
Signposting to community pharmacy and referring
to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate
-
Provide patient facing clinics for those with
questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice
-
Telephone medicines support
-
Provide a telephone help line for patients with
questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.
Medicine
information to practice staff and patients
-
Answers relevant 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
Unplanned
hospital admissions
-
Review the use of medicines most commonly
associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit
and individual patient reviews.
- Put in
place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to highrisk patient groups.
- Management
of medicines at discharge from hospital
-
To reconcile 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.
- Set up
and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to highrisk groups of patients (e.g.
those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).
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.
Repeat
prescribing
-
Produce and implement a practice repeat
prescribing policy.
-
Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation
process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing
medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review.
- Ensure
patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.
Risk
stratification
- Identification
of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared
practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related,
medicine related, or both.
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
clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the
results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice 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
health economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that
should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care
(amber drugs).
-
Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a
practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system.
-
Auditing practices compliance against NICE
technology assessment guidance.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key
duties and responsibilities
- Patient facing Long term condition clinics (where
appropriate).
-
See (where appropriate) patients with single or
multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD,
asthma, Diabetes).
-
Review the on-going need for each medicine, a
review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their
medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e.
medicines optimisation).
-
Make appropriate recommendations to Senior
Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement.
Telephone
or Patient facing Clinical Medication Review
- Undertake
clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for
senior clinical pharmacist team leader, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and
monitoring.
Telephone
or Patient facing care home medication reviews
- Undertake
clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the
senior clinical pharmacist, nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Work
with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and
administration.
- Domiciliary
clinical medication review
- Undertake
clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the
senior clinical pharmacists, nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.
Management
of common/minor/self-limiting ailments
-
Managing caseload of patients with
common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice
and limits of competence.
-
Signposting to community pharmacy and referring
to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate
-
Provide patient facing clinics for those with
questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice
-
Telephone medicines support
-
Provide a telephone help line for patients with
questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.
Medicine
information to practice staff and patients
-
Answers relevant 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
Unplanned
hospital admissions
-
Review the use of medicines most commonly
associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit
and individual patient reviews.
- Put in
place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to highrisk patient groups.
- Management
of medicines at discharge from hospital
-
To reconcile 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.
- Set up
and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to highrisk groups of patients (e.g.
those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).
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.
Repeat
prescribing
-
Produce and implement a practice repeat
prescribing policy.
-
Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation
process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing
medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review.
- Ensure
patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.
Risk
stratification
- Identification
of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared
practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related,
medicine related, or both.
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
clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the
results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice 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
health economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that
should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care
(amber drugs).
-
Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a
practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system.
-
Auditing practices compliance against NICE
technology assessment guidance.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy,
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Commitment to undertaking the CPPE pathway training, followed by Independent Prescribing qualification.
Desirable
- CPPE (or equivalent) trained or already on the pathway
- Independent prescribing qualification
Experience
Desirable
- Experience in working with computerised health care systems.
- At least 1 year post-qualification experience in General Practice, hospital or community pharmacy.
- Previous experience of working in triage or an unscheduled care service.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy,
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Commitment to undertaking the CPPE pathway training, followed by Independent Prescribing qualification.
Desirable
- CPPE (or equivalent) trained or already on the pathway
- Independent prescribing qualification
Experience
Desirable
- Experience in working with computerised health care systems.
- At least 1 year post-qualification experience in General Practice, hospital or community pharmacy.
- Previous experience of working in triage or an unscheduled care service.
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).
