Eynsham Medical Group

Practice Based Clinical Pharmacist

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Job summary

Are you a pharmacist looking for a new and exciting challenge? Want to be part of a dynamic and innovative Practice? Eynsham Medical Group are advertising for a new clinical pharmacist to join our expanding team of pharmacists and to work as part of the wider Eynsham and Witney PCN.

Main duties of the job

Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team at the Eynsham Medical Group and across the Eynsham and Witney PCN, you will be undertaking a clinical diploma or have similar experience in pharmacy practice. You will be supervised by a senior clinical pharmacist.

You will be an independent prescriber or working towards becoming one (supported by the practice), providing specialist expertise in medicines use and optimisation in a patient facing role.

This position will be funded through the NHS Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme (ARRS). You will therefore be expected to enrol on the CPPEs Pharmacists in General Practice structured learning pathway, supporting your role progression and continued professional development which also provides evidence for the RPS Faculty framework. You will also engage with a local support group of pharmacists to share learning and good practice.

About us

Eynsham Medical Group is a friendly, supportive and innovative training and dispensing practice providing primary care to 15,500 patients across two sites. We are a rural practice based just outside Oxford city in an area of low deprivation. We are part of the Eynsham and Witney Primary Care Network (PCN). Our patients are appreciative and the members of our team recognise the importance of a good work-life balance.

Date posted

11 August 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£39,000 to £45,000 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

A1894-23-0005

Job locations

Conduit Lane

Eynsham

Witney

Oxfordshire

OX29 4QB

Willis Court

Long Hanborough

Witney

Oxfordshire

OX29 8FQ

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will provide expertise in clinical medicines review and address public health and social needs of patients in GP practices

Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review

Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues

Interface with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals including the promotion of the repeat dispensing service

Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates

Manage patients and health care professionals medicine queries

Increase quality and safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA cycles

Manage practice formularies to improve the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of prescribing

Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety

Work with primary care professional and patients to implement NICE and other evidence based guidelines

Run clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics.

Contribute to multi morbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews

Provide medicines information and training to Practice healthcare professionals and admin staff

Review daily Pathology results for patients on known medicines

Act as a source of medicines information for all of the practice team and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives e.g. around out of stocks)

Undertake minor ailments triage: dealing with minor ailments and triaging patients appropriately

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

1. 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

2. Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all prescribers within the practice

3. Lead on where changes in evidence require changes in prescribing across patient population e.g.where a drug is withdrawn or indications change

4. Liaise with colleagues in community pharmacy to align support for medicines adherence such asMUR and NMS

5. Support improvements in clinical care through practice based audit and implementing change

6. Prescribing advice to prescribers in practice e.g. temporary non availability of drugs

7. Ensure patient safety when they are transferred between care providers through reconciliation ofprescribed medicines