About this role
Job summary
Salary Available Upon Request
20 hours a week
Trosnant Lodge Medical Practice is looking for a clinical pharmacist to join our team. The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering high quality pharmaceutical care, supporting safe and effective prescribing and improving patient outcomes across a range of clinical services.
The pharmacist will work collaboratively with the clinical and administrative teams to assess patients, manage long term conditions, conduct medication reviews and help with the management of repeat prescribing. They will also be expected to contribute to audits, quality improvement projects and any other prescribing incentives.
The role requires strong clinical knowledge, excellent communication skills and a commitment to delivering patient centred care.
Due to room availability in the practice, the hours for this role will be predominately afternoons.
Main duties of the job
Improve the quality and effectiveness of medicines management in the practice.
Perform structured medication reviews and medicines optimisation.
Provide patient focused healthcare.
Promote medicines safety.
Support the management of chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, CKD, asthma and COPD.
Provide advice and education to patients regarding medicines and treatment plans.
Maintain accurate clinical records and ensure compliance with professional standards.
Contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives.
Assist with the management of repeat prescribing, including medication authorisation and dealing with requests for acute medications.
Medicines management tasks such as adding new medications and removing discontinued medications following secondary care reviews etc.
Clinics will be face to face, with the possibility of some telephone reviews.
About us
We are a friendly, well-established practice based in Pontypool, South Wales. We aim to offer high quality clinical care to out patients while achieving a good work/life balance. Our team is comprised of 3 GP partners, 2 Salaried GPs, an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, 3 experienced practice nurses and 2 phlebotomists, alongside good administrative support.
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Job description Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Ensure compliance with NHS guidelines, local policies and professional standards.
Develop and embed safe, efficient prescribing processes within the practice.
Contribute to clinical audits, quality improvement initiatives and service development
Support safer prescribing of high risk medications e.g. DMARDS, anticoagulants, opioids etc.
Conduct medication reviews
Prescribe medications safely and appropriately as an independent prescriber.
Support the management of long-term conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, CKD, asthma, COPD and CVD.
Review and optimise patient medications to improve safety, adherence and clinical outcomes.
Design, implement and refine protocols, SOPs and medicine workflows.
Identify and reduce prescribing risk, polypharmacy issues and medication errors.
Provide patients with advice and education regarding medicines and treatment plans.
Maintain accurate and up to date clinical records.
Work collaboratively.
Participate in continuing professional development and mandatory training.
Authorising repeat and acute medications.
Dealing with patient medicine queries
Adding and removing medications at the request of secondary care.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Registered pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council GPhC Masters degree in Pharmacy MPharm or equivalent recognised pharmacy qualification
Desirable
Independent prescriber qualification
Experience Essential
Post registration experience as a pharmacist Experience undertaking medication reviews and medicines optimisation Knowledge of prescribing guidelines, clinical governance and medicines management Experience working as part of a multidisciplinary team Excellent communication and patient consultation skills Experience using electronic prescribing and clinical record systems
Desirable
Previous experience working within a GP practice Experiencing managing long term conditions Experience conducting structured medication reviews Experience supporting quality improvement, prescribing audits and medicines safety initiatives Familiarity with Welsh NHS systems and prescribing policies
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.
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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 GP Practice in Wales
Address Trosnant Lodge
Trosnant Street
Pontypool
NP4 8AT
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://gpwales.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)