About this role
Job summary
The post holder is a pharmacist who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacists in general practice, as part of a multidisciplinary team in a patient-facing role.
Main duties of the job
You will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy. You'll provide primary support to general practice staff on prescription and medication queries - supporting the repeat prescription system, dealing with acute prescription requests, and managing medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing.
You will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement, manage aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services, and help the practice integrate with community and hospital pharmacy to improve patient outcomes and manage workload. You will be supported to develop your role towards becoming a non-medical prescriber.
About us
We're a well-established, friendly and forward-thinking group of practices covering the area of Bracknell, Crowthorne, Sandhurst and Owlsmoor. Our large, growing multidisciplinary team - including GPs, nurses, paramedic practitioners, clinical pharmacists, first contact physiotherapists, nursing associates, a mental health practitioner, social prescribers and care coordinators - works collaboratively to deliver high-quality, innovative and compassionate care. One of our practices is a training practice, and training is always supported. Whether you're newly qualified or an experienced pharmacist, you'll find an environment that is supportive, progressive and genuinely rewarding.
What We Offer
Competitive salary £40,000 £52,000 per annum
Structured support to develop your role, including working towards an Independent Prescriber (IP) qualification
Regular in-house training and education sessions, supervision, and multi-professional learning opportunities
Genuine support to develop clinical special interests, with dedicated time built into your role
Company pension, sick pay and private medical insurance
Flexitime, free flu jabs, free/on-site parking and employee discount
Company events
Job description Job responsibilities
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Patient-facing long-term condition clinics
See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems requiring medicine optimisation (e.g. hypertension, asthma)
Review the ongoing need for each medicine and monitoring needs, support patients with their medicines taking, and make appropriate recommendations to GPs for medicine improvement
Patient-facing clinical medication review
Undertake clinical medication reviews and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GPs on prescribing and monitoring
Patient-facing care home medication reviews
Undertake structured medication reviews and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacist, nurses or GPs
Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration
Patient-facing domiciliary clinical medication review
Undertake structured medication reviews and produce recommendations for nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring
Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences
Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments
Manage a caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments, working within your scope of practice and limits of competence
Signpost to community pharmacy and refer to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate
Medicines support (patient-facing and telephone)
Provide patient-facing and telephone clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines
Medicine information to practice staff and patients
Answer medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams and patients, suggesting and recommending solutions
Provide follow-up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes
Unplanned hospital admissions
Review use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews
Put in place changes to reduce prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups
Management of medicines at discharge from hospital
Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, identifying and rectifying unexplained changes
Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients
Signposting
Ensure patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate timeframe
Repeat prescribing
Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy
Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process, ensuring appropriate monitoring tests are in place
Risk stratification
Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches
Medicines quality improvement and safety
Undertake clinical audits of prescribing, feedback results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team
Implement changes to medicines resulting from MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and other local and national guidance
Guidelines, formulary and CQC
Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economy's RAG list and make recommendations to GPs
Assist practices in maintaining a practice formulary and audit compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance
Work with the practice team to ensure compliance with CQC standards where medicines are involved
Education, training and public health
Provide education and training to the primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation
Support public health campaigns and provide specialist knowledge on public health programmes
Interested?We'd love to meet you for an informal visit or chat - come and see what makes The Health Triangle PCN different.
Contact:
Vonnie Phillips, Hiring Manager
Email: [email protected]
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Degree in Pharmacy, MPharm/ BPharm GPhC Registered IP Qualified or working towards an IP qualification Full driving licence
Desirable
Member of the RPS Clinical Diploma Minor Ailments qualification Clinical systems trained (EMIS)
Experience Essential
General practice experience and understanding of medicines optimisation roles
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 Crown Wood Medical Centre
Address 4a Crown Row
Crown Wood
Bracknell
Berkshire
RG12 0TH
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.crownwoodmedicalcentre.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)