Job Description

Primary Care Support offer:

6 weeks annual leave + bank holidays Mentor scheme Supportive team of experienced primary care pharmacy professionals Career development prospects CPPE Pathway (where applicable)

PLEASE NOTE: Primary Care experience is essential for this post

Clinical Pharmacist

& Person Specification

Job Title:

Prescribing Pharmacist

Grade:

TBC

Hours of Work:

37.5 Hours

Base:

St Helens Technology Park / Hybrid or fully remote for experienced primary care professionals

Managerial Accountable to:

Directors

Clinically Accountable to:

GP's

Professionally Accountable to:

Directors

Job Summary

In conjunction with the practice, plan and organise the post holder's own workload, including medicines management services to the practice, audit and project work, and training sessions for clinical and non-clinical staff To record personally generated information and maintain a database of information relating to the work done in the practice(s) personally generated information includes information and records relating to audit and clinical work undertaken by the post holder, reference notes relating to clinical/technical information, etc maintaining up-to-date, detailed records of all work done in the practice for which the post holder is accountable To develop and facilitate a good working relationship with community pharmacists and other local providers of healthcare To maintain registration as a pharmacist and comply with appropriate professional codes To support the repeat prescription service, whilst working within your competency, and help to reduce the work load of the practice's we support As appropriate to the post, to maintain and develop professional competence and expertise, keep up to date with medical/therapeutic evidence and opinion, and local and national service, legislation and policy developments, agree objectives and a personal development plan and participate in the appraisal process To undertake any other duties commensurate with the post holder's grade as agreed with the post holder's line manager Prescribe medication to patients within your competency follow review.
All employees should understand that it is their personal responsibility to comply with all organisational and statutory requirements (e.g. health and safety, equal treatment and diversity, confidentiality and clinical governance)

Duties and Responsibilities

Principle Responsibilities

Management of medicines at discharge from hospital.

Develop as an independent prescriber so as to manage and prescribe for patients within a specific chronic disease area. To support the repeat prescription service, whilst working within your competency, and help to reduce the work load of the practice's we support 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).

Risk stratification

Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-?prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both.

Unplanned hospital admissions

Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-?risk patient groups.

Repeat prescribing

Monitor and review the practice repeat prescribing policy by completing audits of the process periodically. Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review to the GP. To support the repeat prescription service by signing repeat prescriptions, whilst working within your competency, and help to reduce the work load of the practice's we support

Telephone and patient facing medicines support

Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines. Hold clinics for patients requiring face-?to-?face medicines use reviews (MURs) -- i.e. advise about medicines and adherence support.

Medication review

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the GP on prescribing and monitoring.

Care home medication reviews

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the GP on prescribing and monitoring. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.

Domiciliary clinical medication review

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the GP on prescribing and monitoring.

Long-?term condition clinics

See patients with single medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma). Make recommendations to GPs for medicine improvements.

Service development

Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advise on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).

Care Quality Commission

Work with the practice manager and GPs to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. Undertake risk assessment and management and ensure compliance with medicines legislation

Public health

To contribute to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, and adult immunisation programmes

Cost saving programmes

Undertake changes to medicines (switches) designed to save on medicine costs where a medicine or product with lower acquisition cost is now available.

Medicine information to practice staff and patients

Answers all medicine-?related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff and patients with queries about medicines.

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 directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.

Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations

Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economy's RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs). Assist practices in setting and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practice's computer system. Auditing practice's compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance. Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.

Medicines safety

Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

Quality

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

Administrative/ Clerical

To maintain comprehensive and accurate records of work undertaken To be able to use MS Office programmes necessary for the role To be able to use the searching and administrative capabilities of the GP clinical system. To manage time effectively to ensure all targets are met To carry out other associated tasks and training required to develop this role in the future as requested by the surgery

Personal / Professional development

The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by Primary Care Support as part of this employment, with such training to include:

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

Infection control

It is Primary Care Support's policy to reduce the risk of Healthcare Associated Infection by having in place Infection Prevention and Control Policies. These policies must be adhered to by all staff to ensure patients are cared for in a clean environment and receive the highest standards of clinical care

Communication

To be the first point of contact for patients, secondary care, community pharmacists, nursing homes staff and other healthcare professionals who have queries relating to repeat prescriptions. To investigate and document and complaints or significant events relating to medicines and report them to the relevant person. To work as part of the wider surgery team, including admin, pharmacists and GPs To work collaboratively with other practices to spread good practice and share experience. To provide education and training to members of the team on all technical issues relating to medicines management and the safe handling of medicines Recognise people's needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Equality and Diversity

It is the responsibility of every person to act in ways that support equality and diversity and work within the spirit and detail of legislation including, but not limited to the Sex Discrimination Act 1975, Race Relations Act 1976 and Disability Discrimination Act 1995 as amended.

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

Acting in a way that recognises the importance of people's rights, interpreting the in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation Respect the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues Behave in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Competency

You are responsible for limiting your actions to those, which you feel competent to undertake. If you have any doubts about your competence during the course of your duties you should immediately speak to the Lead Clinician in the first instance.

Health and Safety Requirement

In accordance with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and other supplementary legislation, you are required to take reasonable care to avoid injury during the course of work and co-operate with Aston Healthcare and others in meeting statutory requirements.

You are required to attend stator training as required to fulfil your duties To comply with safety instructions and practice policies and procedures. To use in a proper safe manner the equipment and facilities provided To refrain from willful misuse of, or interference with, anything provided in the interest of health and safety and any action, which may endanger yourself or others. To report as soon as practical any hazards and defects to your senior manager To report as soon as practical accidents and untoward incidents and to ensure that accident forms are completed. Maintain awareness of national standards of infection control and cleanliness and regulatory/ contractual/ professional requirements and good practice guidelines Demonstrate due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.

Confidentiality

In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately.

In the performance of their duties outlines 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 organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.

Information relating to patents, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Data Protection

Where it is a requirement of the job for the post holder to use computers or other information technology, he/she will be required to ensure that security procedures are followed as appropriate and that confidential information for example passwords, are not communicated to unauthorised individuals.

General clause

This job description is not intended to be exhausted but to indicate the main responsibility of the post and may be amended from time to time after consultation with the post holder.

Person Specification

Person Specification

Essential

Desirable

Assessment

Qualifications & Training

1

Vocational Masters Degree in Pharmacy

A/I

2

One year pre-registration training

A/I

3

Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council

A/I

4.

Maintain professional accreditation and CPD as required by the pharmacy profession

A/I

5.

Diploma or higher (MSc or Doctorate) in Clinical Pharmacy/Pharmacy Practice or equivalent

A/I

6.

Members of associated pharmacy organisations (eg FCPP)

A/I

Knowledge and experience

1.

Experience of working within the NHS.

A/I

2.

Experience in primary or secondary care

A/I

3.

Sound therapeutic and clinical knowledge

A/I

4.

Familiarity with prescribing data (ePACT)

A/I

5.

Experience with working in interdisciplinary settings

A/I

6.

Experience in teaching health professionals

A/I

7.

Working with community groups or the public

A/I

8.

An understanding of NHS modernisation and policy

A/I

9.

An understanding of clinical governance frameworks

A/I

Skills

1.

Good communication and presentation skills

A/I

2.

Proven written skills

A/I

3.

Computer literate

A/I

4.

Critical appraisal skills of clinical literature

A/I

5.

Good time management skills

A/I

6.

Ability to work on own initiative and plan work

A/I

7.

Working within a team

A/I

8.

Staff management

A/I

9.

Project management

A/I

10.

Ability to motivate others

A/I

11.

Ability to effect change and influence others

A/I

12.

Commitment to achieve key results within the CCG

A/I

13.

Supervision of students and junior pharmacists

A/I

14.

An understanding of NHS modernisation and policy

A/I

15.

Negotiating skills

A/I

Attributes and Behaviours

1.

A complete finisher.

A/I

2.

Resilience and drive

A/I

3.

Personal and professional integrity and confidence.

A/I

4.

Flexibility

A/I

5.

Self-starter

A/I

6.

Resourceful

A/I

7.

Strong negotiating and influencing skills

A/I

8.

Strong facilitating skills

A/I

9.

Strong commercial instincts

A/I

10.

Calm and resolute under pressure.

A/I

11.

Self-motivated and enthusiastic.

A/I

12.

High workload capacity and capable of sustained effort over a long period.

A/I

13.

Effective delegator

A/I

14.

Strong commitment to public services.

A/I

15.

Political awareness.

A/I

16.

Full driving licence and access to a car.

A/I

17.

Willing to travel to GP practices and community pharmacies with the CCG

A/I

Method of Assessment: 'A' Application Form 'I' Interview& assessment Process

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Pay: 52,000.00 per year

Education:

Master's (preferred)
Work Location: Remote