Main duties of the job
To work with the management team in the practice and support with achieving efficient and effective prescribing activities. To promote high quality, cost effective and evidence-based use of medicines within primary care working alongside the Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Partnership. To provide guidance and support to the pharmacy and medicines management team including mentoring, support and professional development. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role, to provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. Ensuring that the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes.
About us
Riverside Health Partnership is a 4 site practice with a patient population of over 23,000. Based in Retford, N.Notts market town by A1, commuting distance from Newark, Nottm, Doncaster, Mansfield, Lincoln, Rotherham, Sheffield and 80mins on mainline to London. Good schooling, affordable housing, abundance of countryside pursuits
Job responsibilities
Main Duties:
1. To provide guidance and support to the pharmacy and medicines management team including mentoring, support and professional development. Always ensure adequate cover on a rota by suitably qualified staff to provide a robust 5-day service.
2. To develop effective protocols for the team to ensure efficient and effective processes are in place for patients.
3. To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
4. Take responsibility for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical structured medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy.
5. Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required
6. Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients and to help in tackling inequalities.
7. Provide leadership on person centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
8. Support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care, through structured medication reviews.
9. Support the integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload.
10. To assist and lead where appropriate in identifying cost effective and evidence-based use of medicines.
11. To reconcile hospital discharge letters, ensuring that data provided is correct and updated on the clinical system.
12. To participate in prescribing audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team
13. Answer medicine related enquiries from GPs, practice staff and patients. Suggesting and recommending appropriate solutions and provide follow-up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes as indicated.
14. Analyse, interpret, and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making across the primary care team
15. 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) including the development of the practice based dispensary.
16. To assist in reducing medication errors such as Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
17. Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved, including regular audits.
18. To contribute to the PCN delivery of the highest possible quality standards.
19. To maintain computerised records in accordance with data protection principles to ensure patient confidentiality.
20. To keep up to date with current pharmacy practice, new drugs, and their uses
21. To attend the practice meeting when required
22. To represent the practice at locality Prescribing Leads Meetings with responsibility to inform the partnership of actions.
23. Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across PCN and the wider health and social care system.
24. To respond to patient complaints in accordance with the practice complaints procedure.
25. To abide by the General Pharmaceutical Society's code of ethics, observing and applying all professional, ethical, and legal obligations
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Degree in pharmacy or equivalent
* Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
* Qualified prescriber
* Minimum of 2 years experience as a pharmacist, in acute hospital, community pharmacy or community health services, demonstrated within a practice portfolio
* Experience of working with the public
* Experience of being responsible and accountable for own professional actions, working independently within professional and organisational boundaries and being responsible for the actions of others within their area of responsibility
* Ability to analyse, interpret and evaluate specialist medicines related information or data.
* Effectively manage own time, workload, and resources.
* Ability to communicate sensitive and complex specialist medicines related information and advice to patients & carers, medical teams and other healthcare professionals.
* Completed Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE) Clinical Pharmacist 18-month training pathway.
* Experience of working within primary care
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.
Depending on experienceBand 8a equivalent dependant on experience
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