Overview
You will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services. You will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries and help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, medication audits, Prescribing Incentive Scheme, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patients.
Responsibilities
* Patient facing Long-term condition Clinics – See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required; review ongoing need for each medicine, monitoring needs and support patients in medicines taking to ensure best use of medicines; make appropriate recommendations to GPs for medicine improvement.
* Patient facing Clinical Medication Review – Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.
* Patient facing care home medication reviews – Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring; work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
* Patient facing domiciliary clinical medication review – Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
* Multidisciplinary involvement – Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.
* Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments – Manage caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments within scope of practice and limits of competence; signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate.
* Patient facing medicines support – Provide patient facing clinics for questions, queries and concerns about medicines in the practice.
* Telephone medicines support – Provide a telephone helpline for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.
* Medicine information to practice staff and patients – Answer medicine-related enquiries from GPs, practice staff, other healthcare teams and patients; suggest and implement solutions; provide follow up to monitor effects of changes.
* Unplanned hospital admissions – Review medicines commonly associated with unplanned admissions and readmissions through audits and individual patient reviews; implement changes to reduce prescribing to high-risk patient groups.
* Signposting – Ensure patients are referred to appropriate healthcare professionals in a timely manner (e.g., pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long-term condition reviews).
* Repeat prescribing – Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy; manage the repeat prescribing reauthorization process; review requests and monitor medicines due for review; ensure appropriate monitoring tests are in place.
* Risk stratification – Identify cohorts at high risk from medicines via practice computer searches; consider patient-related or medicine-related risks.
* Service development – Contribute pharmaceutical advice for new services with medicinal components (e.g., treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).
* Information management – Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks for decision making.
* Medicines quality improvement – Undertake clinical audits of prescribing, feedback results and implement changes with the practice team.
* Medicines safety – Implement changes to medicines following MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and local/national guidance.
* Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary – Monitor prescribing against local health economy indicators and advise on hospital-prescribed (red) or jointly-managed (amber) medicines; assist practices with maintaining a practice formulary and auditing NICE guidance; provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.
* Education and Training – Provide education and training on therapeutics and medicines optimisation to the primary healthcare team.
* Care Quality Commission – Work with the practice team to ensure CQC standards compliance where medicines are involved.
* Public health – Support public health campaigns and provide specialist knowledge on public health programmes available to the general public.
Personal Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
* Specialist knowledge via postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
* Independent prescriber or working towards independent prescribing qualification
* Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable
* A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Experience
Essential
* Minimum 2 years post-qualification experience
Desirable
* Recent General Clinical Pharmacy Activity relevant to Primary Care
* Previous experience of providing prescribing advice or support in primary or secondary care
* Experience of delivering patient clinics or services
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
* In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge with evidence-based practice
* Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
* Ability to communicate complex information clearly to patients and other audiences
* Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review medicine optimisation in long-term conditions
* Computer literacy with GP systems (desirable) and Microsoft Office (essential)
* Able to analyse complex technical information
* Ability to identify priorities and refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
* Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
* Ability to produce timely and informative reports
Other
Reporting to – Business Manager and Partners
Job Details
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent
Pay: £41,614.94-£44,634.10 per year
Benefits:
* Company pension
* Free flu jabs
* Free parking
* On-site parking
* Referral programme
Experience:
* Pharmacist: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: In person
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