Practice Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job description

Clinical Pharmacist

Responsibleto: The GP Partners of Dykes Hall Medical Centre

Job Description

Support to patients regarding acute and repeat prescription queries.

This will be a mixture of telephone and virtual work for patients with questions and concerns about their medicines.

Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.

Medication information to practice staff

Answering relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy)

Suggesting and recommending solutions.

Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes

Management of medicines at discharge from hospital

To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals or intermediate care, 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).

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.

Repeat prescribing

Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review.

Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.

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.

Medicines safety

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

Care Quality Commission

Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

Collaborative Working Relationships

Recognise the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care. Demonstrate 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 and other PCNs). Demonstrate the ability to work as a member of a team. Explore the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships.

Liaise with ICB pharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management/ Optimisation to benefit from peer support.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualifications
• Essential
• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
• Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)
• Specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
• Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification
• An understanding of general practice and how it works
• An understanding of the context of prescribing in primary care and strategies for its improvement
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills including within patient consultations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to implement medicines optimisation
• Good IT skills including the ability to obtain and analyse complex technical 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).

Employer details

Employer name

Dykes Hall Medical Centre

Address

Dykes Hall Medical Centre

156 Dykes Hall Road

Sheffield

S6 4GQ

Employer's website

https://www.Dykes-hall.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)