Trainee Primary Care Clinical Pharmacist

3 weeks ago

Crawley West Sussex, United Kingdom Alliance for Better Care Full time

Clinical Pharmacist - Saxonbrook Medical Centre
P ost holder will be employed by Saxonbrook Medical Centre .
Base: Saxonbrook Medical Centre, Maidenbower Square, Maidenbower, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 7QH. About Saxonbrook Medical Surgery
Saxonbrook Medical is a 20,000 patient population practice serving our community over two sites. We work together as a team to provide the best care possible to our community. We are a teaching Practice who welcome a number of trainees into the Practice including Doctors, Student Physician Associates and Student Nurses and also support the progress and development of our employees.
We work within a local Primary Care Network, working collaboratively with Social Prescribers, Pharmacists and First Contact Practitioners.
We offer the NHS Pension Scheme. Clinical staff receive 25 days annual leave + bank holidays pro rata. We also have a fantastic employee assistance programme available which can support with a whole array of things as well as a wellness app.
The post holder is a Pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacists in general practice. In this role they will be supported by a Senior Clinical Pharmacist and a GP who will develop, manage and mentor them.
They will help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patient in the GP practice.
The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement, manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services and contribute to the delivery of the local medicine’s optimisation strategy.
The post holder will ensure that the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload. The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice.
See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement.
Assist with QOF (Quality and Outcomes Framework) targets.
Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.
Provide medication review services with patients in the Practice and during domiciliary visits to the local nursing home.
Provide telephone support for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.
To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into 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).
Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy in line with the recommendations Medicines Management Team.
Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.
Work with MMT to support the implementation of local and national guidelines including NICE etc.
Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
Produce pharmacy / prescribing newsletters or bulletins on a quarterly basis.
Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.
Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high‐risk patient groups.
Carry out face-to-face and/or telephone consultations with patients with minor illnesses.
Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate.
Line manage/supervise the dispensary staff in accordance with current practice policy.
Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Good knowledge of service developments in medicines, prescribing, NHS policy and other relevant policy directives
Ability to solve problems effectively and timely and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and when to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
Excellent understanding and implementation of legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct
Good understanding of patient centred care and impact on care quality and outcomes
Ability to plan, prioritise, manage, monitor, advise and review clinical and general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
Experience in writing complex and high quality reports
Experience in audit, research and analysis of highly complex information related to improving clinical quality
Demonstrates ability to generate evidence suitable for presentation at local level
Demonstrates understanding of the Pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace
Demonstrates ability to improve quality within limitations of service
Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol

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