An exciting opportunity for a motivated pharmacist to join our team for approximately 30 hours weekly.
Ideal Working Pattern
* Wednesday: 9:30 am 5:00 pm
* Thursday: 11:00 am 5:00 pm (plus 6:30 pm 8:00 pm telephone clinic)
Some flexibility can be considered.
The post holder will play an integral part in the Pharmacy team at thepractice.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is a Clinical Pharmacist and is an integral part of the general practice team, working within their professional boundaries as part of the pharmacy team. Undertaking medication reviews, liasing with primary, secondary and community care colleagues to ensure medicines follow-up on transfer of care, reconciling medicines on hospital discharges, dealing with prescription queries, undertaking quality audits, reviewing existing prescribing at the practice and make recommendations to prescribers and undertaking chronic disease management.
About us
Parkside Group Practice isbased in South Croydon, with a list size of 14,500 patients. The team consistsof 4 partners, 7 salaried GPs, 3 Pharmacists, 1 Paramedic, 3 nurses and aadministration team of 18 including a Business Manager and 2 Operations managers
Job responsibilities
Resolve day-to-day medicines and prescriptionissues with healthcare professionals
Liaise with primary, secondary and communitycare colleagues to ensure medicines follow-up on transfer of care
Respond to patient discharge from hospital,liaising with local pharmacies to improve patient outcomes and ensureprescribing in is line with the latest evidence and prescribingguidelines.
Reconcile medicines following hospitaldischarge and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensurepatients receive the medicines they need post discharge
Work with General Practice to provide clinicalmedicines advice to care homes and domiciliary care teams with a focus onEvidence based treatment and/or prescribing.
Perform Medication reviews to optimisepatients drug management directly, organising blood tests and/or followup where appropriate.
Detect early deterioration in patients andact proactively to help manage the condition where appropriate.
Support practice repeat prescription servicesand deal with queries from reception staff and patients
Rationalise repeat prescriptions lists toavoid waste and duplication
To follow up identified patient groups, targetingbetter patient adherence with treatment to improve outcomes
Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorization processby reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicinesreaching
review dates and flagging up those needing a review.
Provide practice and or home based review clinics tothose with LTCs or complex health needs including vulnerable people in thefuture.
Advising patients of the adverse side effect ofmedication and potential interaction with other medication/treatments
Compliment and co-ordinate practice based publichealth campaigns with the local community pharmacy public health campaigns e.g.flu vaccinations
Present to Patient groups any changes to prescribingin line with NICE, best practice or in response to prescribing alerts.
Managingcaseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working withina scope of practice and limits of competence, in the future.
StrategicDirection and Business Development
Toreview existing prescribing practice and make recommendations to the prescribersand the practices and/or the PCN.
Todevelop new prescribing policies in line with best practice and local carepathways.
Contributeto policies on storage, preparation and ordering of practice stock and controlsystems
Ensurethe practices are compliant with NICE, MHRA, NHSE and local prescribingguidelines and practices
To provide a link function between the hospital andthe local community pharmacy in the use of Medicine Use Reviews and NewMedicine Service
To support the development of practice services thatreduces the workload within the practice
Review and make recommendations to GPs of patientsmedication who have Long term conditions as part of the patients care plan.
Engage with the Quality, Innovation,Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) agenda and support the Quality OutcomesFramework (QOF)
To provide updates to the Partners on clinicalpathways, new medicines and NICE recommendations and guidelines.
Helping practices prepare for CQC visits
To develop systems and processes which reduce drugwastage and expenditure
Review and report on the usage of ElectronicPrescription Service
Engagedwith the following STOPP (screening tool for older peoples potentiallyinappropriate prescriptions)/ START (screening tool to alert doctors toright/appropriate treatments) identified patients recurrent hospitaladmissions.
Clinicalleadership
Tolead on the management of prescribing risk
Toundertake risk assessments in line with practice or clinical priorities
Tobe responsible for ensuring that all patients medications are reviewedsystematically, with a focus on medicines optimisations.
Lead onhigh risk prescribing to ensure safety e.g. patients on methotrexate, NOAC andwarfarin
Review,maintain and update clinical records, as required
Toprovide timely review of patients discharge medication where there had been anunplanned hospital admission
Tolead on medicine safety and ensure compliance with National Patient SafetyAgency requirements
Toaction patient safety alerts and report to the GP Partners
Agreeclinical audit of prescribed drugs with GP Partners
Contributeto Significant Event investigations and lead where these are drug related
To adviseon the management of drugs purchase and storage to ensure there are processesin place to minimise errors or omissions, which could compromise Care QualityCommission Standards.
To regularly audit against QOF domains, improve riskstratification of patients and improve service targeting and delivery.
Develop cycle for prescribing audits, monitor andensure change to practice where this is indicated
To ensure that the practice has robust governance inrespect of prescribing all drugs on prescription
To develop relevant prescribing skills andqualifications as requested by the practice.
Attendand refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.
Whererequired take part in safeguarding training and updates and be aware of /andact on such issues when dealing with all patients.
Communication
Provide medicines information to ensureall practice staff have access to up-to-date medicines information in a formatthat supports patient engagement and education.
To provide regular updating on clinicalpathways, new medicines and NICE recommendations and guidelines
To ensure clear record keeping andcommunications within the practice IT systems.
Providea telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns abouttheir medicines.
Internal andExternal relationships
Toliaise and engage directly with local community based pharmacists
To work with both the CCG and the LocalAuthorities and Public Health to develop and support the delivery of servicesthat improves the health of the local community
Toliaise directly with Acute and other care providers.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
* A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
* Minimum of 5 years post-qualification experience.
* Independent prescriber
Skills knowledge and Experience
* In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare.
* An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices.
* 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
* Experience of motivational interviewing and able to train other staff
* Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences.
* Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
* Familiarity with GP systems.
* 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.
* Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
* Reliable.
* Self-motivated.
* Able to work under pressure to meet deadlines, whilst maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
* Able to work at part of a multi-disciplinary team.
* Commitment to CPD.
* Experience of Emis Clinical System
* Experience of DOCMAN
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.
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