Job summary
We are
seeking a dedicated and professional Pharmacist to join our multidisciplinary
team.
This is a
unique opportunity to contribute to a forward-thinking organisation within the
Primary Care Network (PCN) framework. The PCN has already established excellent
collaboration in delivering pharmacy provision to the many aspects of the DES
within its locality. The post holder will help underpin and grow the team to
move to working in line with the ever-evolving requirements of PCNs.
Our current team is
complemented by 6 clinical pharmacists and 4 pharmacy technicians working
across all sites. This role is a fixed term contract to cover maternity leave
within the team to continue to grow on the support and accessibility of our PCN
and its patient population.
This is a fixed term position of 12 months
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
1.Clinical Medicines Management
Provide expertise in clinical medicines management, including medication reviews and ensuring safe prescribing practices, especially during care transitions.
2.Medication Reviews
Conduct remote or face-to-face structured medication reviews for patients, particularly those with polypharmacy, long-term conditions, or in care homes.
3.Support for Patients
Offer patient-facing support, addressing medication queries and optimizing medication use to improve adherence and outcomes.
4.Hospital Discharge Management
Reconcile and manage medicines post-hospital discharge, ensuring continuity of care and addressing unexplained changes.
5.Quality Improvement
Lead clinical audits and contribute to quality improvement initiatives, including adherence to local and national prescribing guidelines.
6.Service Development
Provide pharmaceutical advice for creating and implementing new services with medicinal components.
7.Medicines Safety
Review and improve the safety of medicines associated with unplanned hospital admissions and high-risk groups.
8.Education and Guidance
Provide medication-related information to practice staff, healthcare teams, and patients, suggesting solutions and monitoring outcomes.
9.Policy Implementation
Monitor compliance with local and national guidelines, assisting with practice formulary updates and adherence to NICE guidance.
About us
LAKESIDE HEALTHCARE is changing the face of primary
care provision in England. We are bold, adventurous and ambitious and
determined to thrive in uncertain times. We are the largest true partnership
in the NHS and operate from various sites across the East Midlands. We serve
the healthcare needs of over 170,000 patients across Northamptonshire,
Lincolnshire & Cambridgeshire. Joining our team presents an opportunity to
be part of a large organisation that is changing the way primary care is
delivered today.
Living and breathing our values at
Lakeside Healthcare
Caring & Respect: Simply put we genuinely care about
people: working together for our patients and our teams, our patients come first
in everything we do. We strive to ensure we connect and respond to all needs
with compassion, care and respect to improve the lives and wellbeing of the
communities we serve.
Teamwork & Quality: In all areas of our business we
network, collaborate and learn from our Patients, Stakeholders and each another
to ensure we are always striving to improve, making the right and best
decisions to provide the best service.
Rockingham Forest PCN is a large, forward-thinking Primary
Care Network compromising 3 practices across Corby, Kettering and Oundle.
This role is based in Headlands
Surgery, in the heart of Kettering, an industrial and market town
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will work within their clinical competence as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management. This involves providing face to face structured medication reviews, managing long term conditions, ensuring safe prescribing at the transfer of care, implementing systems for safer prescribing, repeat prescription reauthorisation and dealing with acute prescription requests.
The post holder will perform face to face medication review of patients with polypharmacy,
especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple comorbidities.
The post holder will provide leadership on quality improvement and clinical audit, and manage some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework.
This role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice.
The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber, if that qualification is not already held.
Patient Facing Long-Term Conditions Clinics
- 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. Make appropriate recommendations to GPs for medicine improvement.
Patient facing Clinical Medication Review
- Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.
Patient facing Care Home Medication Review
- Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacist, nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
- Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration
Patient facing domiciliary clinical medication review
- Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacists, nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
- Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.
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.
- Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate
Patient facing Medicines Support
- Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice
Medicine Information to Practice Staff and Patients
- Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams e.g. community pharmacy and patients with queries about medicines.
- Suggesting and recommending solutions.
- Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes
Unplanned Hospital admissions
- Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews.
- Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to highrisk patient groups
Management of medicines at discharge from hospital
- To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.
- Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to highrisk groups of patients e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes.
Service Development
- Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets.
Medicines quality improvement
- Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.
Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations
- Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors red drugs or subject to shared care amber drugs.
- Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system.
- Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance.
Operating arrangements:
- Responsibility for one or more sites dependent upon patient list size
- Based across one or more sites with the opportunity to work remotely from other sites
- This is an evolving role and the responsibilities may augment over time in consultation with the post-holder
- From time to time the post-holder may be required to work from other sites
Other Tasks
- Duties may be varied from time to time under the direction of the line manager dependent on current and evolving practice workload and staffing levels.
Other administration and professional responsibilities:
Participate in the administrative and professional responsibilities of the practice team
Ensure appropriate items of service claims are made accurately, reporting any problems to the practice administrator
Ensure collection and maintenance of any required statistical information
Attend and participate in practice meetings as required
Training and personal development:
Maintain professional registration with the GPhC.
If it is necessary to expand the role to include additional responsibilities, full training will be given.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will work within their clinical competence as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management. This involves providing face to face structured medication reviews, managing long term conditions, ensuring safe prescribing at the transfer of care, implementing systems for safer prescribing, repeat prescription reauthorisation and dealing with acute prescription requests.
The post holder will perform face to face medication review of patients with polypharmacy,
especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple comorbidities.
The post holder will provide leadership on quality improvement and clinical audit, and manage some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework.
This role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice.
The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber, if that qualification is not already held.
Patient Facing Long-Term Conditions Clinics
- 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. Make appropriate recommendations to GPs for medicine improvement.
Patient facing Clinical Medication Review
- Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.
Patient facing Care Home Medication Review
- Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacist, nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
- Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration
Patient facing domiciliary clinical medication review
- Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacists, nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
- Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.
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.
- Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate
Patient facing Medicines Support
- Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice
Medicine Information to Practice Staff and Patients
- Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams e.g. community pharmacy and patients with queries about medicines.
- Suggesting and recommending solutions.
- Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes
Unplanned Hospital admissions
- Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews.
- Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to highrisk patient groups
Management of medicines at discharge from hospital
- To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.
- Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to highrisk groups of patients e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes.
Service Development
- Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets.
Medicines quality improvement
- Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.
Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations
- Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors red drugs or subject to shared care amber drugs.
- Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system.
- Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance.
Operating arrangements:
- Responsibility for one or more sites dependent upon patient list size
- Based across one or more sites with the opportunity to work remotely from other sites
- This is an evolving role and the responsibilities may augment over time in consultation with the post-holder
- From time to time the post-holder may be required to work from other sites
Other Tasks
- Duties may be varied from time to time under the direction of the line manager dependent on current and evolving practice workload and staffing levels.
Other administration and professional responsibilities:
Participate in the administrative and professional responsibilities of the practice team
Ensure appropriate items of service claims are made accurately, reporting any problems to the practice administrator
Ensure collection and maintenance of any required statistical information
Attend and participate in practice meetings as required
Training and personal development:
Maintain professional registration with the GPhC.
If it is necessary to expand the role to include additional responsibilities, full training will be given.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent).
- Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification.
Desirable
- Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience.
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience.
Desirable
- Experience of working across multiple sectors of Pharmacy (Community Pharmacy, Hospital Pharmacy, CCGs, Industry).
- Experience of working in general practice.
- Experience of using SystmOne
GPhC
Essential
- Registration as a Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
- A member of or working towards Faculty Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent).
- Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification.
Desirable
- Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience.
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience.
Desirable
- Experience of working across multiple sectors of Pharmacy (Community Pharmacy, Hospital Pharmacy, CCGs, Industry).
- Experience of working in general practice.
- Experience of using SystmOne
GPhC
Essential
- Registration as a Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
- A member of or working towards Faculty Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
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).
