Job summary
Job Summary:
The post
holder is a pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting
and working as part of a multi-disciplinary team in general practice. In this role they will be supported
by a more Senior Clinical Pharmacist who will develop, manage and mentor them.
The post holder will take responsibility
for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake
clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex
polypharmacy.
The post holder will provide primary
support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication
queries. They will help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute
prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and
systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice
while addressing both public and social care needs of the patient in the GP
practice (s).
The post holder will provide clinical
leadership on medicines optimisation and
quality improvement and manage some
aspects of the quality and outcomes
framework and enhanced services.
Main duties of the job
Primary Duties and
Areas of Responsibility
Chronic Disease
See
(where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where
medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma).
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).
Where appropriate, make recommendations to
GPs for medicine improvement.
Ensure
patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.
Clinical Medication
Reviews
Undertake
clinical medication reviews with patients, in practice or over the telephone
and produce recommendations for nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.
Undertake
clinical medication reviews with patients who reside in Care Homes 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 within their own homes and produce
recommendations for nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
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.
About us
Teldoc
Primary Care Network (PCN) covers a population of 60,000 patients within
Telford & Wrekin, Shropshire. We are looking for an enthusiastic and
motivated Clinical Pharmacist to join our team of existing Clinical Pharmacists
within our PCN in providing excellent care for our patients.
Job description
Job responsibilities
An
ability to embrace new ways of working including telephone and video
consultations alongside traditional face to face contacts is an essential requirement.
Job description
Job responsibilities
An
ability to embrace new ways of working including telephone and video
consultations alongside traditional face to face contacts is an essential requirement.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care
- Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS - private organisations e.g. CCGs)
- Demonstrates ability to work as a member of a team
- Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary
- Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality
- Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality
- Liaises with CCG colleagues including CCG Pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit
- Liaises with CCG pharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management - Optimisation to benefit from peer support
Desirable
- Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to
- implement this appropriately within the workplace.
- Demonstrate understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision
- Engages with Patient Participation Groups (PPGs) and involves PPGs in
- development of the role and practices
- Demonstrates ability to improve quality within limitations of service
- Reviews yearly progress and develops clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others.
- Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve goals
- Promotes diversity and equality in people management techniques and leads by example.
- Demonstrate understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and - or service
- Demonstrate understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation
- Demonstrate understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice
- Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy - protocol
- Follows professional and organisational policies - procedures relating to performance management
- Demonstrate ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care
- Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS - private organisations e.g. CCGs)
- Demonstrates ability to work as a member of a team
- Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary
- Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality
- Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality
- Liaises with CCG colleagues including CCG Pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit
- Liaises with CCG pharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management - Optimisation to benefit from peer support
Desirable
- Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to
- implement this appropriately within the workplace.
- Demonstrate understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision
- Engages with Patient Participation Groups (PPGs) and involves PPGs in
- development of the role and practices
- Demonstrates ability to improve quality within limitations of service
- Reviews yearly progress and develops clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others.
- Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve goals
- Promotes diversity and equality in people management techniques and leads by example.
- Demonstrate understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and - or service
- Demonstrate understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation
- Demonstrate understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice
- Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy - protocol
- Follows professional and organisational policies - procedures relating to performance management
- Demonstrate ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team
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).
Additional information
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).
