Oakwood Lane Medical Practice

Clinical Pharmacist

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Job summary

Oakwood Lane Medical Practice has a great opportunity for a creative Clinical Pharmacist to join our team. We are looking for someone keen to build on their clinical skills and support our cross-practice LTC team, including prescription clerks, a pharmacy technician and dedicated administrative support.

In addition to a competitive salary, NHS Pension and working with a friendly team, working at Oakwood Lane Medical Practice has other benefits:

The practice is well-supported by a team of PCN clinical pharmacists who carry out the polypharmacy structured medication reviews, working with our dedicated PCN Care Home, SMI and Frailty teams.
We employ a talented Mental Health Practitioner, specifically for our patients.
Extended Access support - Healthy Minds practitioner, Virtual MSK & meds management, Saturday Hub on site with GP / Nurse/HCA appointments run by Leeds GP Confederation.
Fortnightly clinical meetings, daily coffee catch up meetings

If you have a desire to make a real difference to those living with acute illness and chronic disease and work with a fantastic bunch of people, please apply.

Main duties of the job

Medication reviews for Long Term Condition reviews after completion of biometrics and nurse-led reviews.
Statin initiation
Clinical audit and prescribing safety searches.
Working with a GP Partner, oversee the process to safety net patients who do not engage with the LTC review, ensuring safest possible prescribing.
Support the clinical team with prescribing queries and updates.

Line Management of our Prescription Clerk
Work as part of the practice Leadership team to improve patient experience and staff wellbeing through a team approach to changing processes and communication.

About us

We are a creative, energetic and innovative practice with strong links to the wider health and social care system. We also play a leading role within our Primary Care Network.

We operate in a large and modern purpose built medical centre with free parking in the LS8 area of Leeds.

We consider ourselves a friendly and inclusive practice and we are very proud of the fact that our people are diverse and come from a broad mix of backgrounds.

Our skill mix is equally diverse. In addition to 10 GPs, 1 ACP, 2 nurses, 1 Nurse Associate, 2 Health Care Assistants and a Phlebotomist, we also have our own Clinical Pharmacist, Pharmacy Technician and Mental Health Practitioner.

The clinical team are supported by a talented team of receptionists and administrators led by a Patient Services Manager, an Operations Manager and a Business Manager.

If you would like to know more about our organisation please feel free to contact us directly for an informal chat or visit so you can see for yourself our working environment and meet the team at Oakwood Lane Medical Practice.

Date posted

16 July 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£48,670 to £54,770 a year Dependant on Clinical & Management Experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

A1168-24-0002

Job locations

2 Amberton Terrace

Gipton

Leeds

West Yorkshire

LS8 3BZ

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key general responsibilities to include:

Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas

Be a prescriber, or completing training to become a prescriber, and work with and alongside the general practice team

Undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP Stop Over Medication Programme)

Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the organisation and to help in tackling inequalities

Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services

Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care

Have a leadership role in supporting further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload

Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across the wider health and social care system

Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties), liaison with community pharmacists, and anticoagulation

Be part of a professional clinical network and have access to appropriate clinical supervision. Appropriate clinical supervision means:

To act as the point of contact for all medicine related matters, establishing positive working relationships

To consult patients within defined levels of competence and independently prescribe acute and repeat medication

To receive referrals and directed patients from triage services and other clinicians

To receive and resolve medicines queries from patients and other staff

To manage a therapeutic drug monitoring system and the recall of patients taking high risk drugs, i.e., anticoagulants, anticonvulsants and DMARDs, etc.

To provide pharmaceutical consultations to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team

To review medications for newly registered patients

To improve patient and carer understanding of confidence in and compliance with their medication

To maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation

To encourage cost-effective prescribing throughout the organisation

To implement and embed a robust repeat prescribing system

To provide advice and answer medication related queries from patients and staff

To organise and oversee the organisations medicines optimisation systems, including the repeat prescribing and medication review systems

To improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education, to improve performance against NICE standards and clinical and prescribing guidance.

To provide subject matter expertise on medication monitoring,