Aire Valley Surgery and Guiseley & Yeadon Medical Practice are now working collaboratively to serve a population of patients in Rawdon, Guiseley and Yeadon of circa 26000. Operating from 4 sites, we are now looking to expand our team of Pharmacists, and form a strong and effective Pharmacy Team.
This position is for a Senior Pharmacist who will take the lead on site at the Guiseley & Yeadon Medical Practice sites and will be overseeing a team of Prescription Clerks and Pharmacy Technicians based at those sites.
Main duties of the job
Purpose of the role
To support Guiseley and Yeadon Medical Practice with all aspects of medicines optimisation and prescribing strategy. This is an ONSITE role only. Remote working is not available for this post. Candidates seeking remoteworking need not apply.
The post holder will work within their strategic and clinical competencies as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines optimisation across the practice. This will include oversight of the prescribing team and strategic development of prescribing practices, policies and processes within the practice.
The post includes direct patient contact including:
Structured medication reviews
Management of long-term conditions
Management of medicines on transfer of care
Reviewing systems for safer prescribing
Contributing to repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation
Addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients
Contributing to achievement of QOF and locally commissioned quality improvement schemes
Undertaking clinical audit
The postholder will provide support to pharmacy technicians and experienced pharmacists employed in the practice.
The post holder will be supported by the Lead Practice Pharmacist and a GP clinical mentor. They will also engage with pharmacy colleagues in Yeadon PCN and across Leeds for peer support.
About us
The post holder must be a qualified non-medical prescriber and have completed the CPPE General Practice Pharmacist Training Pathway. Applications will not be considered if these criteria are not met.
Job responsibilities
Key duties and responsibilities
Please note this is a list of options, it is not exhaustive, which options are deployed will be decided by the Lead Practice Pharmacist and the Business Manager. This role is patient-facing in nature.
* 1.Leadership and management Dependent on experience
* Depending on experience, you will be expected to contribute to the leadership of medicines related issues for the practice, and to provide leadership and mentoring to other pharmacists or pharmacy technicians employed by the practice.
* Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace.
* Demonstrate understanding of the workplace vision.
* Demonstrate ability to improve quality within limitations of service.
* Review progress yearly and develop clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others.
* Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve goals.
* Demonstrate ability to lead a team and provide support to other clinical pharmacists.
* Demonstrate understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service and manage the team through these changes.
* Demonstrate understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation.
* Demonstrate understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice.
* Demonstrate ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol.
* Follow professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management.
* Demonstrate ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team.
* Lead and mentor a team of differing abilities.
* 2.Patient facing Clinical Medication Review
* Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and work within your scope of practice as a non-medical prescriber to implement any necessary changes or produce recommendations for/refer to other prescribing pharmacists, nurses and/or GPs to implement if outside your scope. These reviews could be cohort based, in care homes, polypharmacy or any other area required by the practice, within the pharmacists competence. Home visits may be required.
* Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas identified by yourself and agreed by the practice or as directed by the practice, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the relevant practice team.
* Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of the same medicines to high-risk patient groups.
* Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
* 5.Patient facing medicines support
* Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.
* 6.Telephone medicines support
* Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.
* 7.Management of medicines at change of care setting
* Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospital or admission to intermediate care or 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 high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in Care Homes).
* 8.Medicine information to practice staff and patients
* Answer relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other network staff, other healthcare teams e.g. community pharmacy and patients with queries about medicines. Suggest and recommend solutions. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.
* Ensure robust systems are in place for drug monitoring at each practice across the PCN, streamlining these where possible. Understand and apply the traffic light classifications for prescribing in the Leeds Health Economy.
* 10.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.
* 11.Repeat prescribing
* You will be asked to contribute to the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates. Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring in place when required.
* Depending on experience, 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).
* 13.Information management- Dependent on experience
* Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.
* 14.Education and Training- Dependent on experience
* Understand and demonstrate the characteristics of a role model to members in the team and/or service.
* Demonstrate understanding of the mentorship process.
* Demonstrate ability to conduct teaching and assessment effectively according to a learning plan with supervision from more experienced colleague.
* Demonstrate self-development through continuous professional development activity.
* Participate in the delivery of formal education programmes.
* Demonstrate an understanding of current educational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keeps up to date with relevant clinical practice.
* 15.Care Quality Commission
* Work with the general practice teams to ensure the practices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
* 16.Public health
* Support public health campaigns. Provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.
* 17.Collaborative working arrangements
* Work collaboratively with the Practice Manager, Partners, Prescribing Lead, Lead Pharmacist, Lead Nurse and other members of the pharmacy team.
* Participate in the practice MDT.
* Liaise with the Integrated Care Board (ICB) in Leeds Medicines Optimisation team to benefit from peer support, and on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.
* Engage with the Leeds Practice Pharmacist and Technician Network for peer support.
* Foster and maintain strong links with all services across the PCN and neighbouring networks.
* Explore the potential for collaborative working and take opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships.
* Liaise with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients, including but not limited to :
About us
The post holder must be a qualified non-medical prescriber and have completed the CPPE General Practice Pharmacist Training Pathway. Applications will not be considered if these criteria are not met.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Experience
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 experience. This starting pay for role is a band 8a equivalent
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working, Compressed hours
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