Clinical Pharmacist- Maternity cover

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities:

1. Patient facing Clinical Medication Review

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring. These reviews could be cohort based, in care homes, polypharmacy or any other area required by the Practice, within the pharmacists competence. Home visits may be required.

2. Medicines quality improvement

Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by Clinical Team, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the relevant practice team.

Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups

3. Medicines safety

Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

4. Patient facing medicines support

Provide patient facing clinics for those with medication reviews, questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.

5. Telephone medicines support

Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.

6. Management of medicines at change of care setting

Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospital or admission to intermediate care or 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 high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in Care Homes).

7. Clinical admin

Checking outpatient letters and discharge summaries already reconciled by pharmacy technician. If prescriber issuing acute scripts after review. Reauthorising medications after appropriate review.

8. Medicine information to practice staff and patients

Answer relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other network staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines. Suggest and recommend solutions. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.

9. Drug monitoring

Ensure robust systems are in place for drug monitoring in the practice streamlining these where possible. Understand and apply the traffic light classifications for prescribing in the Leeds Health Economy.

10. Signposting

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.

11. Repeat prescribing

Ensure practice has a robust repeat prescribing policy, and streamline these where possible. You may be asked to contribute to the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates. Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring in place when required.

12. 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).

13. Information management

Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.

14. Education and Training

Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.

15. Care Quality Commission

Work with the general practice teams to ensure the practices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

16. Public health

Support public health campaigns. Provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
• Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council up to date

Desirable

• Completion of relevant CPPE Primary Care Pathways
• May hold or be working towards an independent prescribing qualification

Knowledge and skills

Essential

• Ability to work and set targets within healthcare.
• An appreciation of the nature or primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing strategies for improving prescribing.
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Good knowledge of IT systems, including ability to use word processing skills, emails, and the internet to create simple plans and reports.
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Work effectively, independently and as a team member.
• Able to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol.
• Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relation to performance management
• Understand of relevant IT systems: EMIS, SystmOne

Desirable

• Understanding of the wider determinants of health, including social economic, and environmental factors and their impact on communities.

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable experience as an established foundation-level pharmacist, demonstrated within a practice portfolio.
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare

Desirable

• An appreciation of nature of GPs and 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

Guiseley & Yeadon Medical Practice

Address

17 South View Road

Yeadon

Leeds

West Yorkshire

LS19 7PS

Employer's website

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