Practice Pharmacist
6 days ago
Job summary
The Practice-based Clinical Pharmacist will improve the quality and safety of care offered to patients.
Ideally they will have regular contact with patients and will reduce the workload of GP prescribers in the practice by performing medication reviews, supporting the management of patients with long-term conditions, undertaking quality audits and processing repeat medication requests, reviewing hospital correspondence.
The successful candidates will supported by prescribers at the practice to ensure that appropriate medication is prescribed, ensuring that income and dispensary profit is maintained whilst fulfilling the requirements of QOF, ICB and locality candidate will join an expanding team of pharmacists, technicians and pre-registration pharmacists.
Main duties of the job
The pharmacist will develop and manage medicines optimisation services within the practice; the successful candidate(s) will be supported by a pharmacists; pharmacy technician, medicine management co-ordinator and three prescription clerks and a wide range of clinical and non clinical team members.
Key Tasks -
Undertake medication reviews for patients
Act as an interface to acute trust, community services, mental health, community pharmacy and ICB
Provide leadership on medicines and prescribing systems including safe systems, risk and digital solutions
Undertake areas of responsibility for QOF / QC and QIPP for the practice
Ensure CQC compliance where medicines are involved
Manage patients with complex poly-pharmacy
Provideadvice for the GP management of more complex patients / poly-pharmacy patients
Participatein serious incident investigations and multidisciplinary case reviews
About us
This is an exciting opportunity to join a two practices collaborating to provide prescribing services.
The practice is looking to recruit additional candidates to support the development and expansion of medical services across the practices.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The key aims for the clinical pharmacist are:
To reduce the medicines related workload on doctors
Increase safety and quality of prescribed medicines
Provide support on medicines related issues to the whole practice team
Be a point of contact for patients regarding medicines queries
A senior advisory role in the day to day running of the prescription team
Clinical work will include:
Structured Medication Review
Chronic Disease Management (for example, managing hypertension/Type 2 Diabetes/Asthma/COPD patients, polypharmacy review subject to experience)
Use appropriate provided clinical templates within the EMIS Web Clinical System
Medicines reconciliation on transfer between care providers
Support the practice development work including QoF Domains, improving disease registers; Prescribing Safety, Clinical audit, Local Enhanced Services support
Lead on prescription management (systems and processes, ensuring monitoring is being done, supporting repeat prescription staff
To review hospital correspondence, discharge summaries in relation to medication changes.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent Registered with GPhC Member of RPS Independent prescriber status
Desirable
Postgraduate knowledge through a Postgraduate Diploma and qualifications ( clinical, community, therapeutics) or equivalent. Additional qualification in chronic disease or minor ailments would be advantageous. Experience in medication reviews and basic clinical skills.-
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