About this role
Job summary
Working within your clinical and professional boundaries in a patient facing role as part of a multidisciplinary team to manage medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing. Perform face-to-face structured medication reviews of patients with polypharmacy; especially for those with frailty and/or with multiple co-morbidities as well as undertaking reviews of patients with specific long term conditions that fall within your competency.
Work in partnership with stake holder organisations to improve the safety and quality of care for patients and manage medicines on transfer of care. Deliver medicines optimisation initiatives within GP practices including the provision of specialist professional pharmaceutical advice and services to ensure the safe and cost effective use of medicines. This will involve work to deliver key medicines optimisation outcomes against a CCG set work plan. Contribute to quality improvement and clinical audit, as well as supporting aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework, medicines safety and antibiotic stewardship. You will also be required to contribute towards practice financial stability through medicines optimisation and related targets in QOF.
The post holder will comply with the organisation’s policies and procedures.
Main duties of the job
Working within the practice based team to undertake medication reviews particularly in high risk groups such as:
- Frail elderly
- Poly-pharmacy
- Renal impairment
- Hepatic impairment
- Substance misuse
- Patients on high risk medicines
- STOPP/START identified patients
- Revolving door Hospital admissions
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 GPs for medicine improvement.
Undertake structured medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for nurses and/or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
This would be a level 3 clinical medication review looking at the patient’s full clinical condition, blood monitoring, interface care arrangements, social isolation etc. including reducing inappropriate polypharmacy and wasteful prescribing.
Undertake structured medication reviews and produce recommendations for nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
About us
We are a friendly, forward looking and enthusiastic PMS practice of 18,500 patients. The practice has easy access from the A19 and Durham and is based across 6 sites Wingate , Peterlee, Horden, Wheatley Hill, Thornley and Kelloe.
We are a training practice and host GP Registrars at various levels of training and also support with supervision and mentoring of Foundation Doctors , Medical Students and various ARRS roles including Physician Associates, Pharmacists, FCP and other inhouse development roles. This will allow a fantastic opportunity for any Pharmacist to flourish and develop in their role and what can be offered to the patients by a Practice Pharmacists.
Job description Job responsibilities
Working within the practice based team to undertake medication reviews particularly in high risk groups such as:
- Frail elderly
- Poly-pharmacy
- Renal impairment
- Hepatic impairment
- Substance misuse
- Patients on high risk medicines
- STOPP/START identified patients
- Revolving door Hospital admissions
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 GPs for medicine improvement.
Undertake structured medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for nurses and/or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
This would be a level 3 clinical medication review looking at the patient’s full clinical condition, blood monitoring, interface care arrangements, social isolation etc. including reducing inappropriate polypharmacy and wasteful prescribing.
Undertake structured medication reviews and produce recommendations for nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
Person Specification
Experience Essential
1.An appreciation of the nature of Primary Care Networks (PCNs), GP practices and general practice. 2.An appreciation of the principles of primary care prescribing, rational prescribing, and strategies for improving prescribing. 3.Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills. 4.Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 5.Demonstrates the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences, including patients.
Desirable
1.Experience of working in primary care, general practice, community pharmacy or hospital pharmacy. 2.Experience of undertaking structured medication reviews and medicines optimisation activities.
Qualifications Essential
1.Master's degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent). 2.Independent Prescriber qualification or working towards / willing to work towards gaining the Independent Prescriber qualification. 3.Has completed the CPPE Primary Care Pathway or is willing to work towards completing it.
Desirable
1.Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. 2.A member of, or working towards Faculty membership of, the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. 3.Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience.
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 East Durham Medical Group
Address The Medical Centre
The Health Centre
Front Street
Wingate
County Durham
TS28 5PZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.thecarodocpractice.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)