Pharmacist Specialist with Independent Prescribing Qualifications

6 days ago

Banbury, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom Principal Medical Limited Full time
About the Role

Principal Medical Limited is seeking an exceptional Pharmacist Specialist with Independent Prescribing Qualifications to join our team. As an integral part of our clinical team, you will utilize your pharmacy expertise to support our GPs and the whole practice in effective medicines management and optimal patient care. Your Independent Prescribing qualification will bring additional benefits to the role and to the practice.

Key Responsibilities

Medication Review and Optimization:
•Respond to reception queries to amend prescriptions, reauthorize repeats, clarify doses, clarify products, and provide appropriate alternatives when availability issues occur.
•Discuss specific patient and prescribing issues with other clinicians as necessary.
•Face-to-face clinics: identify patients in need of medication review, develop a system of patient invitation with the admin team, and see patients face-to-face for medication reviews and discuss specific issues.
•Discuss medication issues with patients as needed and appropriate by telephone, adverse effects/interactions, overdose/inadvertent ingestion, OTC remedies, queries from reception, and queries from care homes.
•Prescribing Pharmacists will also complete DTA forms for District Nurses.

Medicines Reconciliation:
•Work alongside the Pharmacy Technician to 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, and suggest GP medication review where appropriate.

Medicines Information/Education:
•Monitor and inform colleagues about ongoing prescribing issues, new guidelines, new products being requested by secondary care, manufacturing and supply problems, new prescribing restrictions or contradictions, and individual and systematic errors made by colleagues.
•Advise on cost-effective prescribing and prescribing budget issues.

Prescribing Systems and Policies:
•Liaise with reception, admin, and clinical staff in discussing, developing, and implementing medicines management systems in the practice.
•Work with the GPs (especially the Clinical Lead) 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 the GPs, Practice Management, and Data Team on choosing and delivering targets for the local Prescribing Quality Scheme (PQS).
•Monitor the practice's prescribing performance (via the CCG prescribing dashboard, progress on the PQS, ePACT, etc.) and suggest changes to practice prescribing as appropriate.

Chronic Disease Medicines Management:
•According to experience and training, this may include:
•Annual Asthma reviews with patients.
•Hypertension (lifestyle advice and medication initiation and optimization).
•Diabetes, with referral to GP/Community Diabetes Nurse.
•CHD (medicines optimization, with referral to GP where necessary).
•Depression reviews.
•Heart failure.

Liaison with Community and Hospital Pharmacies:
•Support and advise practice teams as needed.
•Communicate updates and changes in practice policy.
•Liaise when medicine availability issues occur.

Prescribing:
•Having achieved the Independent Prescriber qualification, undertake prescribing where appropriate and within clinical competency.
•Keep clinical competency up to date and inform others of changes (the reception team and other clinical colleagues).
•Sign Patient Specific Directions and GR as appropriate.
•Pass prescribing tasks to an alternative clinician if beyond 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. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organization. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential. Information requested by individual members will be collated and authorized through formal channels.
•Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers, or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorized persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

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.

Contribution to the Implementation of Services:
•The post-holder will:
•Apply practice policies, standards, and guidance.
•Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards, and guidelines will affect their own work.

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