Post Registration Foundation Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

• The post holder is an early years pharmacist working under the supervision and guidance of an experienced pharmacist whilst undertaking a structured training programme.
• To help to improve the quality and effectiveness of medicines management within the GP practice
• To provide patient focussed, prudent healthcare
• To promote medicines safety and review polypharmacy
• To work as a core member of the pharmacy team, working effectively with other health and social care professionals delivering services to patients
• To support with the education and training of other healthcare professionals, and in particular other members of the practice and prison pharmacy teams

ROLES AND responsibilities:

Responsibility for delivering a specialised clinical pharmacy service at Cowbridge & Vale Medical Practice

Patient Focused Roles

Responsible for undertaking systematic medication and polypharmacy reviews, which will take into account social and practical issues for the patient as well as clinical elements.

• To provide medicines optimisation in chronic disease management e.g. heart failure, chronic pain management, AF, respiratory etc.
• To develop pharmaceutical care plans for individual patients as appropriate e.g. targeting those with frequent admissions/exacerbations/frail elderly etc.
• Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc.
• Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.
• To undertake medicines reconciliation following admission or discharge and patient moving into/out of care homes and those newly registered with the practice, following up medication related issues with the patient or other professionals.
• To support public health and health promotion activities, including smoking cessation, administration of flu vaccinations, antibiotic awareness campaigns and screening events.
• To resolve and action medication queries from practice staff and patients relating to prescription requests or problems identified through the repeat prescribing service.
• To have direct patient contact which may include dealing with occasionally distressing or emotional circumstances, including contact and terminally ill patients and their relatives or carers.
• To be accountable for own professional actions, in line with local, & national guidelines and medicines legislation.
• Direct contribution to GMS contract performance, and other enhanced service provision (e.g. Shared care LES, Care home DES, anticoagulation LES).

Improving Medicines Management and Safety

To review clinical correspondence from secondary care to ensure recommendations to initiate new medicines adhere to the formulary and local guidance and take necessary action where appropriate.

To undertake clinical audit relating to medicines

To action requests for acute prescription requests in line with practice protocols

To undertake medicines re-authorisations and review as part of the repeat prescribing system

To ensure safe, evidence based and cost-effective prescribing in accordance with national and locally agreed standards and priorities, e.g. implementation of NICE guidelines, All Wales Medicines Strategy Group recommendations and Safety Agency alerts and warnings.

To support policies to improve GP practice medicines management services e.g. establish clear recall systems to meet monitoring requirements for drugs

To make recommendations on prescribing choices, budget expenditure and risk management where appropriate, without detriment to patient care

• Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.
• Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

Education and Communication

To provide professional and expert advice to GPs, nurses, practice staff and patients on all aspects of drug treatment (doses, monitoring, interactions, side-effects etc)

To develop and provide expert clinical advice to clinical meetings including educational sessions for the practice staff

To explore and implement ways to effectively educate and involve patients regarding their medicines

Participation in HEIW Post registration foundation programme, to include attainment of independent prescriber (IP) status by the end of the programme.

To support the education and training of other healthcare professionals in the practice, including trainee pharmacists, GP registrars and both pharmacy and medical undergraduates.

Partnership Working

• To develop excellent professional links with relevant health and social care colleagues including community pharmacists, community resource and domiciliary care teams, care homes, carers, acute care colleagues etc.
• To network with other practice-based pharmacists to share best practise
• To work closely with health board medicines management teams to ensure awareness of local and national priorities and initiatives
• To contribute to the delivery of cluster/collaborative and practice delivery plans.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
• Registered with GPhC

Experience

Essential

• Experience in a range of clinical specialities
• Experience of multidisciplinary working

Desirable

• Previous experience with general practice

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

Cowbridge & Vale Medical Practice

Address

The Broad Shoard

Cowbridge

CF71 7DA

Employer's website

https://www.cowbridgeandvalemedicalpractice.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)