Pharmacist - Independent Prescriber Specialist

1 month ago

Banbury, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Principal Medical Limited Full time
Job Summary

The Principal Medical Limited is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Pharmacist to join our team as a GP Practice Pharmacist with Independent Prescribing Qualification. As an integral part of our clinical team, you will utilize and share your pharmacy expertise to support our GPs and the practice in effective medicines management and optimal patient care.

Main DutiesMedication Review and Optimisation
  • Respond to reception queries to amend prescriptions, reauthorise repeats, clarify doses, clarify products, and provide alternative options when availability issues occur.
  • Discuss specific patient and prescribing issues with other clinicians as necessary.
  • Conduct face-to-face clinics to identify patients in need of medication review and develop a system of patient invitation with the admin team.
  • Discuss medication issues with patients as needed and appropriate by telephone, including adverse effects, interactions, overdose, and OTC remedies.
  • Complete DTA forms for District Nurses.
Medicines Reconciliation
  • Review secondary care requests for new medication and raise any queries with the relevant GP.
  • Review and continue repeat medications for new patients who have just registered with the practice.
Medicines Information/Education
  • Monitor and inform colleagues about ongoing prescribing issues, new guidelines, and new products being requested by secondary care.
  • Advise on cost-effective prescribing and prescribing budget issues.
Prescribing Systems and Policies
  • Liaise with reception, admin, and clinical staff to discuss, develop, and implement medicines management systems in the practice.
  • Work with GPs and Practice Management to review, develop, and implement prescribing policies and strategies for the whole practice.
  • Suggest and design audits in relation to prescribing targets, implementation of locality policies, and the Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF).
  • Work with GPs, Practice Management, and Data Team on choosing and delivering targets for the local Prescribing Quality Scheme (PQS).
  • Monitor the practice's prescribing performance and suggest changes as appropriate.
Chronic Disease Medicines Management
  • Conduct annual asthma reviews with patients.
  • Provide hypertension advice and medication initiation and optimisation.
  • Refer patients to the GP or Community Diabetes Nurse for diabetes management.
  • Optimise medication for patients with CHD.
  • Conduct depression reviews.
  • Manage heart failure.
Liaison with Community and Hospital Pharmacies
  • Support and advise practice teams when needed.
  • Communicate updates and changes in practice policy.
  • Liaise when medicine availability issues occur.
Prescribing
  • Undertake prescribing tasks as appropriate and within clinical competency.
  • Keep clinical competency up to date and inform others of changes.
  • Sign Patient Specific Directions and GR as appropriate.
  • Pass prescribing tasks to an alternative clinician if outside area of competency.
Teaching/Training

We are a training practice, and often have learners (GP trainees, medical students, and Parenteral Nutrition trainees) sat in on consultations and occasionally having tutorials one-to-one. The practice Pharmacist will sometimes be asked to participate in the education of trainees in these settings.

Confidentiality

In the performance of duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff, and other healthcare workers. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.

Equality and Diversity

The post-holder will support the Equality, Diversity, and rights of patients, carers, and colleagues, to include:

  • Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of people's rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practice/Consortium procedures and policies, and current legislation.
  • Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs, and beliefs of patients, carers, and colleagues.

Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental, and respects their circumstances, feelings, priorities, and rights.

Personal/Professional Development

The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

  • Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of their own personal and/or professional development.
  • Taking responsibility for their own development, learning, and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.
Quality

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice and will:

  • Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.
  • Assess their own performance and take accountability for their own actions, either directly or under supervision.
  • Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on their own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the team's performance.
  • Work effectively with individuals in other practices to meet patients' needs.
  • Effectively manage their own time, workload, and resources.
Communication

The post-holder should organize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

  • Communicate effectively with other team members.
  • Communicate effectively with patients and carers.
  • Recognize people's needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

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