Clinical Pharmacist
Job Description
Job summary
ABOUT THE ROLE
Mansfield North Primary Care Network (PCN) are seeking a qualified Clinical Pharmacist to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in general practice in a patient facing role to support all aspects of primary care prescribing and medicines use. You would be joining an established Pharmacy team of Clinical Pharmacists, technicians and a Senior Clinical Pharmacist working closely with GPs, nurses, and practice staff as part of the PCN Pharmacy team.
The team is highly regarded, and we are looking to further increase our team to help patients get the best out of their medicines and reduce the demands on general practitioners.
We welcome applicants from all pharmacy sectors who are interested in working in general practice. We are a friendly team, and you would be given full support to make the best use of your existing skills and experience.
It is a condition of this role that the post-holder is enrolled on the CPPE Primary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway or has completed one of the earlier iterations of this training pathway. This is an 18-month period of study with a modular format. Study leave is given to participate but it is expected that the post-holder will complete some of the study materials and Portfolio entries within their own time. On completion of the CPPE Pathway you will have the opportunity to complete the training necessary to become an Independent Prescriber.
Main duties of the job
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Undertake medication reviews and structured medication reviews with patients, both face to face and remotely
- Take part in the multi-disciplinary team meetings to support the care of people living in care homes.
- Support patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required
- To integrate the practice with the community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare, and help manage workload
KEY REQUIREMENTS
- Masters in Pharmacy (MPHarm)
- Registered Pharmacist with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Experience of working as a registered Pharmacis
About us
PICS is the employer for this role. We collaborate with patients and partners to design and deliver clinically robust health and social care solution through Community Services, Out of Hospital Services, GP Practices, and Primary Care Networks. Find out more about us: http://picsnhs.org.uk/.
Benefits of working for PICS
We offer a comprehensive package which includes:
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NHS Pension 2015 Scheme (subject to eligibility)
- Alternative government-based scheme (subject to eligibility)
- Generous annual leave entitlement which references NHS Agenda for Change and recognises previous NHS service, starting 35 days pro rata (inc bank holidays)
- Competitive leave entitlement that includes maternity, paternity and adoption leave, study leave allowance, and sickness provisions
- Access to education and training opportunities, depending on your role (CPPE Pharmacy, NHS England Roadmap for First Contact Practitioners, apprenticeship schemes, support professional development)
- Working in a multi-disciplinary team with support from a wide variety of professionals
- A flexible approach to a work-life balance
- Cycle to work scheme (subject to eligibility)
- Access to Blue Light Card scheme
- All staff events and conferences
- Staff engagement (Wellbeing Group, EDI Network, Staff Focus group)
- Free parking across many sites
- Personalised induction into the company and job role
Job responsibilities
KEY RESPONSIBILITES
Patient facing long-term condition clinics
- See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g., COPD, asthma). Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e., medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement.
- Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.
Patient facing care home medication review
- Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the Senior Clinical Pharmacist, nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
Patient facing domiciliary clinical medication review
- Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the Senior Clinical Pharmacists, Nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences
Management of common/minor/self-limiting aliments
- Managing caseload for patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence. Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate.
Patient facing medicines support
- Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines in the practice.
Telephone medicines support
- Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines
Medicine information to practice staff and patients
- Answers all medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g., community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.
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.
Management of medicines at discharge from hospital
- 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).
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
- Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy. 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. Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.
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.
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 directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.
Medicines safety
- Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations ...
