Job description

Job responsibilities

PRIMARY DUTIES AND AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:

Patient facing long- term condition clinics

Undertake a comprehensive medication review of patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required. Ensure on-going follow-up/monitoring to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation).

Patient facing clinical medication review

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and make appropriate clinical interventions either in clinic or in a domiciliary-setting where appropriate.

Patient facing and telephone medicines support

Provide patient-facing or telephone clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.

Medicine information to practice staff and patients

Respond to medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients.

Unplanned hospital admissions

Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions/readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the

prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups.

Management of

medicines at discharge from hospital

To reconcile medicines following transfer of care from hospitals or intermediate care. To undertake a post-transfer consultation with patients to ensure continuity of care.

Signposting

Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate Healthcare Professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate

period of time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc.

Repeat prescribing

Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions that have reached the review date.

Risk stratification

Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches.

Service development

Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g.

advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).

Information

management

Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and

risks to support decision making.

Medicines quality improvement

Undertake simple audits of prescribing in areas highlighted by the practice team and feedback the results and implement changes.

Medicines safety

Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts,

product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

Education and

Training

Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on

therapeutics and medicines optimisation.

Care Quality

Commission

Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is

compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

Public health

To support public health campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge

on all public health programmes available to the general public.

COLLABORATIVE WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:

The post holder will:

Recognise the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care

Demonstrate use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g. ICB

Demonstrate ability to work as a member of a team

Recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary

Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality

Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality

Explore the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships

Demonstrate ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams

Liaise with ICB/PCN colleagues on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit

Liaise with ICB pharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management/ Optimisation to benefit from peer support

Liaise with other GP Practices and staff as needed for the collective benefit of patients

Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Minimum of 2 years experience as a pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio

Has experience and an awareness of common acute and long term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice

Will hold an independent prescribing qualification.

Recognises priorities when problem-solving and identifies deviations from normal pattern and is able to deal with or refer when appropriate

Able to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct

Involves patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidelines.

Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace.

Demonstrate understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision

Engage with Patient Participation Groups (PPGs) and involves PPGs in development of the role and practices

Demonstrate ability to improve quality within limitations of service

Review yearly progress and develops clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others.

Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve goals

Promote diversity and equality in people management techniques and leads by example.

Demonstrate understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service

Demonstrate understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation

Demonstrate understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice

Demonstrate ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol

Follow professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management

Demonstrate ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team

Understand and demonstrate the characteristics of a role model to members in the team and/or service

Demonstrate understanding of the mentorship process

Demonstrate ability to conduct teaching and assessment effectively according to a learning plan with supervision from more experience colleague

Demonstrate self-development through continuous professional development activity; working alongside Senior Clinical Pharmacist to identifying areas to develop

Participate in the delivery of formal education programmes

Demonstrate an understanding of current educational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keeps up to date with relevant clinical practice.

Ensure appropriate clinical supervision is in place to support development

Enrol into review and appraisal systems within the practice

The post holder will:

Demonstrate ability to critically evaluate and review literature

Demonstrate ability to identify where there is a gap in the evidence base to support practice

Demonstrate ability to generate evidence suitable for presentations at practice and local level

Demonstrate ability to apply research evidence base into working place

Demonstrate understanding of principles of research governance.

Job responsibilities

PRIMARY DUTIES AND AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY:

Patient facing long- term condition clinics

Undertake a comprehensive medication review of patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required. Ensure on-going follow-up/monitoring to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation).

Patient facing clinical medication review

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and make appropriate clinical interventions either in clinic or in a domiciliary-setting where appropriate.

Patient facing and telephone medicines support

Provide patient-facing or telephone clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.

Medicine information to practice staff and patients

Respond to medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients.

Unplanned hospital admissions

Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions/readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the

prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups.

Management of

medicines at discharge from hospital

To reconcile medicines following transfer of care from hospitals or intermediate care. To undertake a post-transfer consultation with patients to ensure continuity of care.

Signposting

Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate Healthcare Professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate

period of time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc.

Repeat prescribing

Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions that have reached the review date.

Risk stratification

Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches.

Service development

Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g.

advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).

Information

management

Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and

risks to support decision making.

Medicines quality improvement

Undertake simple audits of prescribing in areas highlighted by the practice team and feedback the results and implement changes.

Medicines safety

Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts,

product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

Education and

Training

Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on

therapeutics and medicines optimisation.

Care Quality

Commission

Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is

compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

Public health

To support public health campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge

on all public health programmes available to the general public.

COLLABORATIVE WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:

The post holder will:

Recognise the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care

Demonstrate use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g. ICB

Demonstrate ability to work as a member of a team

Recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary

Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality

Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality

Explore the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships

Demonstrate ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams

Liaise with ICB/PCN colleagues on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit

Liaise with ICB pharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management/ Optimisation to benefit from peer support

Liaise with other GP Practices and staff as needed for the collective benefit of patients

Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Minimum of 2 years experience as a pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio

Has experience and an awareness of common acute and long term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice

Will hold an independent prescribing qualification.

Recognises priorities when problem-solving and identifies deviations from normal pattern and is able to deal with or refer when appropriate

Able to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct

Involves patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidelines.

Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace.

Demonstrate understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision

Engage with Patient Participation Groups (PPGs) and involves PPGs in development of the role and practices

Demonstrate ability to improve quality within limitations of service

Review yearly progress and develops clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others.

Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve goals

Promote diversity and equality in people management techniques and leads by example.

Demonstrate understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service

Demonstrate understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation

Demonstrate understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice

Demonstrate ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol

Follow professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management

Demonstrate ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team

Understand and demonstrate the characteristics of a role model to members in the team and/or service

Demonstrate understanding of the mentorship process

Demonstrate ability to conduct teaching and assessment effectively according to a learning plan with supervision from more experience colleague

Demonstrate self-development through continuous professional development activity; working alongside Senior Clinical Pharmacist to identifying areas to develop

Participate in the delivery of formal education programmes

Demonstrate an understanding of current educational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keeps up to date with relevant clinical practice.

Ensure appropriate clinical supervision is in place to support development

Enrol into review and appraisal systems within the practice

The post holder will:

Demonstrate ability to critically evaluate and review literature

Demonstrate ability to identify where there is a gap in the evidence base to support practice

Demonstrate ability to generate evidence suitable for presentations at practice and local level

Demonstrate ability to apply research evidence base into working place

Demonstrate understanding of principles of research governance.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm).
• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Independent prescriber.
• Minimum 2 years post-qualification experience.

Desirable

• Specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate diploma level or
• equivalent training/experience.

Experience

Essential

• Is able to plan, monitor, advise ands review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long-term conditions.
• An appreciation of the nature of general practice.
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients).
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Produce timely and informative reports.
• Demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
• Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers.
• Recognise priorities when problem solving and identify deviations from the normal pattern, and able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
• Have excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communications.
• Good IT skills.
• Work effectively independently and as a team member.
• Be self-motivated and adaptable.
• Full driving licence.
• Level 3 safeguarding (adult and children).

Desirable

• Have an in-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
• Previous experience of SystmOne.

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm).
• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Independent prescriber.
• Minimum 2 years post-qualification experience.

Desirable

• Specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate diploma level or
• equivalent training/experience.

Experience

Essential

• Is able to plan, monitor, advise ands review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long-term conditions.
• An appreciation of the nature of general practice.
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients).
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Produce timely and informative reports.
• Demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
• Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers.
• Recognise priorities when problem solving and identify deviations from the normal pattern, and able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
• Have excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communications.
• Good IT skills.
• Work effectively independently and as a team member.
• Be self-motivated and adaptable.
• Full driving licence.
• Level 3 safeguarding (adult and children).

Desirable

• Have an in-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
• Previous experience of SystmOne.

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.

UK Registration

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

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.

UK Registration

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

Employer details

Employer name

Eastwood Primary Care Centre

Address

Church Walk

Eastwood

Nottingham

NG16 3BH

Employer's website

https://www.eastwoodprimarycarecentre.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)