Medicines Management Care Co-ordinator
- NHS
- Full Time
- Shoreham-by-Sea
- 12.75 an hour
Job Description
Job summary
We are currently recruiting for a Medicines Management Care Co-ordinator to join our Pharmacy Team based at our Northbourne site. This is a full-time post working 37 hours over 5 days, however 4 days would be considered.
As a Medicines Management Care Co-ordinator you will be plays a key role in supporting the safe, effective, and efficient management of patients' medicines within the GP practice. Working closely with GPs, Clinical Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, nursing staff, community pharmacies, and patients, you will co-ordinate medication-related administrative and clinical support activities.
Main duties of the job
The role focuses on improving patient care, supporting medicines optimisation, reducing medicines waste, ensuring timely medication reviews, and helping patients access the most appropriate pharmaceutical services.
About us
Adur Health Partnership is a large, innovative GP Partnership based over 4 sites in Shoreham and Southwick, currently serving over 36,500 patients in our catchment area.
Our mission at Adur Health Partnership is to support and improve the health and well-being of the community we serve. We want to do this by providing a resilient, sustainable and thriving general practice service to our community, working with our patients to provide care which is high quality, individualised, responsive, effective and efficient.
Job responsibilities
The following are the core responsibilities of the PCN Care Co-ordinator Medicines Management.
Support the practice medicines management programme.
Co-ordinate routine medication reviews by identifying patients due for review and arranging appointments.
Assist with monitoring patients prescribed high-risk medicines in accordance with practice protocols.
Identify patients requiring blood tests or clinical monitoring before repeat prescriptions can be issued.
Support the Clinical Pharmacist and GPs with medicines optimisation initiatives.
Maintain accurate medication records within the clinical system.
Process administrative tasks relating to medication changes following hospital discharge or outpatient letters.
Ensure medication changes are actioned promptly following clinical review.
Assist with medicines reconciliation after hospital discharge.
Monitor prescribing alerts and ensure appropriate follow-up
Be a single point of contact for patients, carers and families in order to help people to manage their needs through answering queries, making and managing appointments, and ensuring that people have good quality written or verbal information to help them make choices about their care;
Be a single point of contact for local community pharmacies;
To work with the Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians in a supportive role.
Accurately document all patient contacts.
Please Note - We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this post.
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
- Ability to communicate complex and sensitive information effectively with people at all levels by telephone, email, and face to face
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively
- Strong IT skills
- Competent in the use of Office and Outlook
- Ability to network and build relationships
- Proven problem solving & analytical skills
- Ability to develop, implement and embed policy and procedure
Desirable
- EMIS user skills
Experience
Essential
- Experience of supporting people, their families and carers in a related or similar role
- Experience of data collection and providing monitoring information
- Experience of working within a patient facing role
- Experience of working directly in a community development context, adult health and social care, learning support or public health/health improvement (including unpaid work)
Desirable
- Experience of supporting people with their mental health
- Experience of collaborative working and building relationships across varied organisations
Qualifications
Essential
- Good standard of education with excellent literacy and numeracy skills
- Demonstrable commitment to professional and personal development
Desirable
- Educated to degree level in healthcare or business
Employer details
Employer name
Adur Health Partnership
Address
Northbourne Medical Centre
193A Upper Shoreham Road
Shoreham-by-sea
West Sussex
BN43 6BT
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.adurhealthpartnership.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
