About this role
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our dynamic and forward-thinking Pharmacy Team! This role is an integral part of a supportive and collaborative team. This is your chance to take on a rewarding role where your skills will contribute directly to improving patient health outcomes in our community.
Main duties of the job
In this role, the post holder will work as an integral part of a multi-disciplinary team, contributing both administratively and in direct patient-facing interactions.
A key responsibility of the post holder will be conducting clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy, ensuring their treatment regimens are both safe and effective.
The post holder will serve as a primary point of contact for general practice staff, providing expert advice on prescription and medication queries. They will play a crucial role in supporting the repeat prescription system, handling acute prescription requests, conducting medicines reconciliation during transfers of care, and implementing systems for safer prescribing. Additionally, they will offer expert clinical guidance on medicines, addressing the public and social care needs of patients.
About us
Narrowcliff Surgery is a vibrant, forward thinking GP practice in the seaside town of Newquay, Cornwall. We look ater 16 500 patients.
Working collaboratively, we provide coordinated, accessible, and flexible services that go beyond traditional GP appointments. Our multidisciplinary team includes GPs, paramedics, clinical pharmacists, care coordinators, and social prescribing link workers, supporting patients medical, social, and wellbeing needs to ensure truly holistic care.
We are also a teaching and training network, supporting medical students from the University of Exeter and GP trainees from across the South West, helping develop the next generation of healthcare professionals.
This is your chance to join a supportive environment where innovation, teamwork, and high-quality patient care are at the heart of everything we do.
Right to Work in the UK:We are unable to offer visa sponsorship. Applicants must already have the legal right to work in the UK.
Job description Job responsibilities
Key duties and responsibilities
Patient facing Long term condition clinics (where appropriate). See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma, Diabetes). 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 the GPs for medicine improvement.Telephone or Patient facing Clinical Medication Review
Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for prescribing and monitoring.Telephone or Patient facing care home medication reviews
Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration. Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients 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
Managing caseload of 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 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 relevant 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 changesUnplanned 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 highrisk 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 highrisk 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 clinical 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 Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economys 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 the practice in maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system. Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy, Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
Desirable
Independent prescribing qualification
Experience Essential
Experience in working with computerised health care systems. (EMIS Web) At least 1 year post-qualification experience in General Practice, hospital or community pharmacy. Previous experience of working in triage or an unscheduled care service.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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 Narrowcliff Surgery
Address Narrowcliff
Newquay
TR7 2QF
Employer's website https://www.narrowcliffsurgery.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)