The Practice-based Clinical Pharmacist will improve the quality and safety of care offered to patients.
Ideally they will have regular contact with patients and will reduce the workload of GP prescribers in the practice by performing medication reviews, supporting the management of patients with long-term conditions, undertaking quality audits and processing repeat medication requests, reviewing hospital correspondence.
The successful candidates will supported by existing pharmacists at the practice to ensure that appropriate medication is prescribed, ensuring that income and dispensary profit is maintained whilst fulfilling the requirements of QOF, ICB and locality initiatives.The candidate will join an expanding team of pharmacists, technicians and pre-registration pharmacists.
The practice is looking for a prescribing pharmacist who ideally has undertaken the CPPE pathway
Main duties of the job
The pharmacist will develop and manage medicines optimisation services within the practice; the successful candidate(s) will be supported by a pharmacists; pharmacy technician, medicine management co-ordinator and three prescription clerks and a wide range of clinical and non clinical team members.
Key Tasks
* Undertake medication reviews for patients
* Act as an interface to acute trust, community services, mental health, community pharmacy and ICB
* Provide leadership on medicines and prescribing systems including safe systems, risk and digital solutions
* Undertake areas of responsibility for QOF / QC and QIPP for the practice
* Ensure CQC compliance where medicines are involved
* Manage patients with complex poly-pharmacy
* Provideadvice for the GP management of more complex patients / poly-pharmacy patients
* Participatein serious incident investigations and multidisciplinary case reviews
About us
This is an exciting opportunity to join the practice to provide prescribing services in an established pharmacy team
The practice is looking to recruit additional candidates to support the development and expansion of medical services across the practices and replace an vacancy which has arisen in the team.
The practice has approximately 26,000 patients across three sites.
Job responsibilities
The key aims for the clinical pharmacist are
* To reduce the medicines related workload on doctors
* Increase safety and quality of prescribed medicines
* Provide support on medicines related issues to the whole practice team
* Be a point of contact for patients regarding medicines queries
* A senior advisory role in the day to day running of the prescription team
Clinical work will include
* Structured Medication Review
* Chronic Disease Management (for example, managing hypertension/Type 2 Diabetes/Asthma/COPD patients, polypharmacy review subject to experience)
* Use appropriate provided clinical templates within the EMIS Web Clinical System
* Medicines reconciliation on transfer between care providers
* Support the practice development work includingQoF Domains, improving disease registers;Prescribing Safety, Clinical audit, Local Enhanced Services support
* Lead on prescription management (systems and processes, ensuring monitoring is being done, supporting repeat prescription staff)
* To review hospital correspondence, discharge summaries in relation to medication changes.
Qualifications
* Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
* Registered with GPhC
* Member of RPS
* Independent prescriber status
* Postgraduate knowledge through a Postgraduate Diploma and qualifications (e.g. clinical, community, therapeutics) or equivalent.
* Additional qualification in chronic disease or minor ailments would be advantageous.
* Experience in medication reviews and basic clinical skills.
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.
The Park Medical Practice at Geoffrey Street Health Centre
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