Newly Qualified Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main Responsibilities and Duties

The following is not an exhaustive list, and the post holder may at times need to undertake duties as per the needs of the PCN.

Clinical Responsibilities

• Undertake structured medication reviews for patients within your clinical competence such as
• frailty.
• Carry out medication reviews in care homes, working closely with staff to improve safety in
• medicines ordering and administration.
• Run face-to-face and telephone clinics to support patients with medicine-related concerns or
• queries.
• Support with long term conditions when deemed clinically competent to do so such as hypertension
• Prescribing and Medicines Management
• Support with acute and repeat prescription requests ensuring appropriate authorisation monitoring, and safety
• Reconcile medications following discharge from hospitals care homes or intermediate care identifying discrepancies and ensuring continuity
• Support with the management of high risk medications and safety monitoring
• Monitor and action prescribing alerts from the MHRA local medicines optimisation teams or formulary updates
• Implement and audit practice compliance with local and national prescribing guidelines and NICE technology appraisals

Medicines Optimisation and Safety

• Identify patients at risk of medicine-related harm using clinical systems and data analysis tools
• Carry out clinical audits and quality improvement projects in priority prescribing areas
• Provide advice and input into practice-level formulary decisions and maintain formulary compliance

• Communication and Patient Support

  • Respond to medicine-related queries from GPs practice staff community pharmacists and patients
  • Provide follow-up to patients after medication changes to monitor response and manage concerns
  • Support patients post-discharge to understand and use their medicines effectively
  • Service Development
  • Contribute to the development and implementation of services involving medicines eg treatment pathways
  • Analyse and present prescribing data to inform decision-making and improve safety
  • Participate in local medicines management groups or committees as needed
  • Education and Training
  • Deliver education and training sessions to practice staff on therapeutics prescribing safety and medicines optimisation
  • Promote a learning culture around prescribing and medicines use within the PCN

  • Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Governance

    • Support practices in meeting CQC requirements where medicines and prescribing are involved
    • Ensure adherence to best practice and governance standards related to medicines use and storage
    • Public Health and Prevention
    • Support national and local public health campaigns eg vaccinations smoking cessation
    • Provide expert advice on public health initiatives relevant to medicines and therapeutic interventions

    • Signposting and Integration

      • Ensure patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional or service in a timely and effective manner
      • Foster strong links between general practice, community pharmacy and hospital pharmacy teams to ensure cohesive care and efficient skill mix utilisation

      • Other responsibilities

        To act at all times in an anti-discriminatory manner

        To be able to plan and respond to workload according to operational priorities

        To support the delivery of these functions across wider locality areas where necessary

        To undertake any training required in order to maintain competency including mandatory training

        To contribute to and work within a safe working environment

        To take responsibility for self-development on a continuous basis undertaking on the-job training as required

        To be aware of individual responsibilities under the Health and Safety at Work Act and identify and report as necessary any untoward accident incident or potentially hazardous environment

      • Confidentiality

        In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with or allow us to gather sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that employees will respect their privacy and act appropriately

        In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description you may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carersPCN and practice employees and other healthcare workers. You may also have access to information relating to the PCN and practices as a business organisation All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential

        Information relating to patients carers colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the PCN or the practices may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data

        Health & safety

        The post-holder must always comply with the organisation and Practices Health and Safety policiesin particular by following agreed safe working procedures and reporting incidents using the organisations Incident Reporting System

        The post-holder will comply with the Data Protection Act 1984 The General Data Protection Regulations 2018 and the Access to Health Records Act 1990

        The post-holder will comply with all necessary training requirements relevant to the role as identified by the organisation in particular the post holder must complete the specified care coordinator training delivered by the Personalised Care Institute

      • Equality and Diversity

        The post-holder must 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.

        Communication

        Recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

        o Communicate effectively with other team members

        o Communicate effectively with patients and carers

        o Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Professional Registration
• Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council GPhC
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Masters degree in pharmacy MPharm or equivalent
• Independent prescribing qualification
• Skills, Knowledge & Experience
• Have undertaken part of your Foundation Year in General Practice
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Is able to plan, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long-term conditions
• Good IT skills
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
• Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
• Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
• Produce timely and informative reports
• Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence motivate persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
• Work effectively independently and as a team member
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision

Desirable

• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Taunton Deane West Primary Care Network

Address

Wellington Medical Centre

Mantle Street

Wellington

Somerset

TA21 8BD

Employer's website

https://tauntondeanewestpcn.gpweb.org.uk/our-primary-care-network (Opens in a new tab)