Adderley Green Medical Services Ltd

Practice Based Pharmacist

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Job summary

We are hoping to recruit an enthusiastic & highly motivated Practice Based Pharmacist to join our friendly and growing practice team. We are a 4 site practice providing high quality care to 17,000 patients in the Longton & Meir areas of Stoke On Trent. You will be an autonomous practitioner working independently and in conjunction with other health care professionals. You will support the team by taking responsibility for medicines management within the practice.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will preferably be competent in general practice using their expert clinical knowledge and skills. They will have the authority to make autonomous decisions in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients as well as taking responsibility for medicines optimisation and medication reviews within the practice.

Ideally, the post holder must be able to independently prescribe appropriate medication and ensure that patients fully understand any procedure to be carried out on them, and that the appropriate consent is obtained and documented in the Emis Web clinical system.

About us

We are a friendly, modern practice with a combined patient population of 17,000 working over four practice sites.

We have an excellent multidisciplinary clinical team and experienced managerial and administration team to support you.

We are a training and teaching practice with West Midlands Deanery and Keele University.

We are keen to train and develop our own practice staff and encourage personal development at every opportunity.

Date posted

01 October 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

£45,125 to £49,998 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

A4645-24-0013

Job locations

Meir Primary Care Centre

Weston Road

Stoke-on-trent

ST3 6AB

Drayton Road

Stoke-on-trent

ST3 1EQ

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will:

Provide expertise in clinical medicines review and address public health and social needs of patients in GP practices

Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review

Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues

Interface with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals including the promotion of the repeat dispensing service

Manage patients and health care professionals medicine queries

Increase quality and safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA cycles

Manage practice formularies to improve the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of prescribing

Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety

Work with primary care professional and patients to implement NICE and other evidence based guidelines

Run clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics.

Contribute to multimorbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews Provide medicines information and training to Practice healthcare professionals and admin staff

Review daily Pathology results for patients on known medicines

Act as a source of medicines information for all of the practice team and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives e.g. around out of stocks)

Undertake minor ailments triage: dealing with minor ailments and triaging patients appropriately. Looks at the patients full clinical condition, blood monitoring, interface care arrangements, social isolation etc