Job responsibilities

Job Title: Practice Based Clinical Pharmacist to cover maternity

Location: Furnace House Surgery

Accountability Professionally: General Pharmaceutical Registration Code of Conduct and Scope of Professional Practice

Managerially: To Practice Manager

Clinically: To GPs

JOB PURPOSE

To improve the quality and effectiveness of medicines management within the practice.

To provide patient focussed, prudent healthcare

To promote medicines safety and review polypharmacy

To develop the practice pharmacist role, becoming a core member of the practice team working effectively with other health and social care professionals delivering services to patients.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Responsibility for leading and delivering a specialised pharmacy service to the surgery.

PATIENT FOCUSED ROLES

Responsible for developing and managing systematic medication and polypharmacy reviews, which will take into account social and practical issues for the patient as well as clinical elements.

To provide medicines optimisation in chronic disease management.

To develop pharmaceutical care plans for individual patients as appropriate e.g targeting those with frequent admissions/exacerbations/frail elderly etc..

To undertake medicines reconciliation following admission or discharge and patient moving into or out of care homes and those newly registered with the practice, following up medication related issues with the patient or other professionals.

Review and action appropriate recommendations from Medicines Use Reviews/Discharge Medication reviews identified by community pharmacists.

To develop a system to support the treatment of minor ailments.

To support public health and health promotion activities, including smoking cessation, administration of flu vaccinations and antibiotic campaigns.

To act as the liaison with Community Pharmacy and Secondary Care.

To resolve and action medication queries from practice staff and patients related to prescription requests or problems identified through the repeat prescribing service.

To have direct patient contact, which may include dealing with occasionally distressing or emotional circumstances, including contact with terminally ill patients and their relatives, carers.

To be accountable for one's own professional actions, in line with local and national guidelines and medicines legislation.

To support the practice with initiatives i.e. NOAC service and Care Home DES.

Improving Medicines Management and Safety

Responsibility for leading and delivering a specialised pharmacy service to the surgery.

To review clinical correspondence from secondary care to ensure recommendations to initiate new medicines adhere to the formulary and local guidance and take necessary action where appropriate.

To deal with highly complex drug or medication related information, including challenging prescribing behaviour not in line with health board or national recommendations.

To review existing and develop new repeat prescribing policies, including employing mechanisms to reduce medicines waste.

To lead, develop and undertake clinical audit related to medicines to advise the team on the safe and secure handling of controlled drugs and other medicines, ensuring compliance with medicines legislation.

To ensure appropriate management of controlled drugs within the practice and to advise the team on the safe and secure handling of controlled drugs and other medicines within the practice, ensuring compliance with medicines legislation.

To undertake re-authorisations as part of the repeat prescribing system.

To ensure safe, evidence based and cost-effective prescribing in accordance with national and locally agreed standards and priorities, i.e. implementation of NICE guidelines, All Wales Medicines Strategy Group recommendations and Safety Agency alerts and warnings.

To target review of medicines known to cause a high number of adverse drug events and admissions i.e. hypnotics, anticoagulants, NSAIDs.

To develop and implement policies to improve GP practice medicines management services i.e. establish clear recall systems to meet the monitoring requirements of drugs.

To investigate medicines related incidents to learn and improve practice within a culture of continuous improvement.

To contribute to the delivery of GMS Quality Outcomes Framework.

To contribute to /manage relevant enhanced services e.g. shared care drugs/anticoagulation/NOAC/ Care Home DES.

To make recommendations on prescribing choices.

Education and Communication

To provide professional and expert advice to GPs, nurses, practice staff and patients on all aspects of drug treatment (doses, monitoring, interactions, side-effects etc).

To develop and provide expert clinical advice to clinical meetings, including educational sessions for the practice staff.

To explore and implement ways to effectively educate and involve patients regarding their medicines.

To co-ordinate and develop appropriate and educational material, including producing patient information leaflets and posters and run medicine awareness projects.

To convey complex therapeutic and clinical information to GPs, practice staff, care providers, community pharmacists, unqualified healthcare workers and patients in a suitable manner and format.

To support the development of trainee pharmacists.

Partnership Working

To develop excellent professional links with relevant health and social care colleagues, including community pharmacists, community resource and domiciliary teams, care homes, carers, acute care colleagues etc

To network with other practice based pharmacists to share best practices

To work closely with health board medicines management teams to ensure awareness of local and national priorities and initiatives

Experience

Essential

• Experience of conducting medication reviews and medicines optimisation.
• Experience managing patients with long-term conditions and complex medication needs.
• Experience of medicines reconciliation following hospital discharge or transfer of care.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary healthcare teams.
• Ability to provide expert medication advice to patients and healthcare professionals.
• Experience identifying and resolving medication-related issues.
• Knowledge and application of clinical guidelines, prescribing practices, and medicines legislation.
• Strong workload management, organisational, and communication skills.
• Experience using clinical record and prescribing systems.

Desirable

• Previous experience working in General Practice, Primary Care Networks (PCNs), or NHS primary care services.
• Independent prescribing experience.
• Experience of polypharmacy, frailty, and care home medication reviews.
• Experience supporting anticoagulation/NOAC services.
• Experience in audit, service development, quality improvement, and prescribing optimisation projects.
• Experience working collaboratively with community pharmacies and secondary care providers.

Additional criteria

Essential

• NA

Desirable

• NA

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent.
• Registration as a Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Independent Prescriber qualification (or willingness to work towards obtaining this qualification).
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Experience of working as a Clinical Pharmacist in primary care, general practice, community pharmacy, or hospital pharmacy.
• Sound knowledge of medicines optimisation, prescribing, and medication review processes.
• Understanding of long-term condition management and polypharmacy.
• Knowledge of current NHS policies, medicines legislation, and clinical governance requirements.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
• Competent IT skills, including use of clinical systems and Microsoft Office applications.
• Ability to work independently, prioritise workload, and manage competing demands

Desirable

• Postgraduate Clinical Pharmacy qualification or equivalent.
• Previous experience working in General Practice
• Qualification in Independent Prescribing.
• Experience of chronic disease management clinics.
• Experience of medicines reconciliation and care home medication reviews.
• Knowledge of Welsh NHS prescribing initiatives and quality improvement programmes.
• Experience of EMIS Web and/or Vision clinical systems.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).