Job responsibilities
Main
Duties and Responsibilities
Clinical:
Agree a medication review policy with the
practice for implementation of changes to prescribed drugs that can be made by
the pharmacist for individual patients.
Identify target patient groups in order to
perform patient medication reviews.
Agree a smart working method to provide
pharmaceutical medication reviews and health education advice to patients. Agree various methods to complete medication
reviews using various innovative methods including SMS floreys, telephone and
face to face or not based as agreed with the senior team.
Undertake structured medication reviews, making necessary
changes as an independent prescriber or discussing recommendations with GPs to
ensure agreement for recommended prescribing changes resulting in
rationalisation of the patients medication and improved patient outcomes by.
o implementing
shared decision making
o improving
cost-effective evidence-based prescribing
o improving
patient safety
o reducing
inappropriate polypharmacy
o improving
adherence
o reducing
waste
Provide pharmaceutical input to chronic
disease management clinics as appropriate.
Follow up other prescribing issues identified
through medication reviews and facilitate implementation of changes by the
clinicians and appropriate follow-up monitoring.
Carry out basic clinical skills within
clinical competence including Blood Pressure, pulse checks and weight etc.
Triage and manage common minor ailments and
signpost patients to appropriate services and other healthcare professionals.
Develop pharmacist-led clinics in chronic
disease / long term conditions and minor ailments services as appropriate.
Contribute to public health campaigns,
including flu vaccinations, and adult immunisation programmes.
Reconcile medicines following patient
discharge from hospitals, intermediate care, and care homes.
Management of medicines prescribed at secondary
care/hospital clinics.
Take an active role in multidisciplinary case
reviews.
Medicines
Management:
Ensure the practice has a repeat prescribing policy and system in
place and monitor that system to achieve a high level of efficiency.
Ensure all repeat medications are synchronised on the clinical system
(EMIS web).
Implement and monitor adherence to repeat prescribing policy ensuring
repeat medication reviews are conducted at appropriate intervals.
Participate in education and training for staff, carers, and patients
on medicines management issues.
Management of medicine MRHA alerts.
Improve medicines adherence through
shared decision making, providing a holistic approach to the use, and
understanding of medicines by patients that includes step up and step-down
management required in long term conditions or end of life.
Support the practice to deliver
medicines optimisations and prescribing targets as outlined within the GP
contract, Primary Care Standards, Network Contract DES and QOF.
Community Pharmacists:
To develop a working relationship with Community Pharmacists and to
help facilitate the successful implementation of commissioned services.
To facilitate good working relationships between the practice and
local community pharmacists.
Audit and Research:
To support clinical audit in the practice and undertake audit of own
practice and perform annual audits, this will include audits of the high-risk
drugs.
CQC:
Ensure full awareness and understanding of the medicines management
CQC searches on the clinical system.
Develop a system to manage the searches to ensure full compliance.
Provide regular updates to the team on status of CQC searches and work
being undertaken.
Operational:
To deliver the requirements listed above; engage and liaise with key
stakeholders, in particular Prescribing Manager and Practice Manager.
Plan, manage and prioritise
own workload ensuring any deadlines are met.
Keep knowledge up to date in line with
professional responsibilities and CPD requirements, e.g., development through
researching best practice.
Information Management:
Drafting reports summarising status on issues, appraising outcomes,
and providing progress reports for the Prescribing Manager.
Analyse, interpret and present prescribing data to highlight issues,
risks and support decision making.
General Responsibilities
1. Equality and Diversity
The post
holder should at all times adhere to the practice Human Rights, Equality,
Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy and support the equality, diversity
and rights of patients, carers, and colleagues, to include:
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Acting in a way that recognises the rights of others as defined by
practice procedures and policies and current legislation
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Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers,
and colleagues.
2. Safeguarding
All
employees have a responsibility to protect and safeguard vulnerable individuals
at risk (whether children or adults). They must be aware of local child and
adult protection procedures.
All
employees are required to attend safeguarding awareness training and to
undertake additional training appropriate to their role.
3.
Health and Safety
Undertake
a statutory duty to care for your own personal safety and that of others,
ensuring the adoption of safe work practices. The post holder must not, by act
or omission, wilfully endanger themselves or others whilst at work.
Undertake
risk assessments in compliance with the Risk Management Strategy and Policy
make improvements and promote best practice.
Report
all incidents and near misses in compliance with the practice Incident
Reporting Policy and Procedure.
Ensure
the security of the practice property and report all potential or actual
breaches of security.
Attend
all statutory and mandatory health and safety training appropriate to the role.
4. Other
To promote the Practice vision, and
mission and to uphold the Practice values in all day-to-day activities and
delivery of services.
To undertake other duties
commensurate with this band as and when requested by the Practice management
team.