Job responsibilities
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Repeat Prescribing
Review/implement practice repeat
prescribing policies.
Manage the repeat prescribing and reauthorisation
process by reviewing requests for repeat
prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates.
Manage prescription queries across
the practices, providing
remote support where needed.
Ensure processes are in place for
ordering and re-authorisation of high-risk
medications and that monitoring tests
are appropriately ordered.
Medication Review
Provide expertise in clinical
medicines review and address public
health and social needs of patients.
Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy
and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review1
Pro-actively identify
patients using computer searches who require
medication reviews e.g. polypharmacy, over 75s etc.
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.
Liaise with colleagues in
community pharmacy and be the main point of contact for medicines, to align support
for medicines adherence such as MUR and
NMS.
Management of medicines at discharge from
hospital
Reconcile medicines following hospital
discharge and work with patients
and community pharmacists to ensure patients
receive the medicines they need post discharge.
Liaise with pharmacy colleagues in secondary care and be the main point of contact for medicines, to align support
for medicines reconciliation on admission to hospital
and on discharge.
Long-term condition (LTC) clinics
Work within and develop
own competence to deliver patient
facing clinics in patients with single or multiple medical
problems where medicines optimisation is required (e.g.
asthma, diabetes).
Build and use computer searches to
pro-actively identify patients who may benefit
from attending LTC clinics.
Make appropriate recommendations
for ongoing treatment to patients and refer
appropriately to the GP/other services
where needed.
Medicines safety & Service Development
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.
Monitor practice prescribing against local recommendations and QOF targets.
Implement drug withdrawals and
alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines
safety.
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.
Education and Training of Others
Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all prescribers and other
practice staff around
medicines optimisation and therapeutics.
Behavioural Competencies and Skills
Collaborative Working Relationships
Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care.
Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders including patients, senior and peer colleagues, other professionals, other NHS or private organisations e.g. CCGs.
Demonstrates ability to work as a member
of a team.
Is able to recognise personal
limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary.
Actively work towards developing
and maintaining effective working relationships both within and
outside the practice and locality.
Liaises with CCG colleagues including CCG pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.
Liaises with CCG pharmacists and
Heads of Medicines Management/Optimisation
to benefit from
peer support.
Leadership
Liaises with other GP practices and staff as needed for the collective benefit of
patients.
Demonstrates understanding of the pharmacy
role in governance and is able to
implement this appropriately within the workplace.
Demonstrates understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision.
Demonstrates ability to improve quality
within limitations of service.
Reviews last years
progress and develops clear plans to achieve results
within
priorities set by others.
Demonstrates ability to motivate self to achieve
goals.
Management
Demonstrates understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and or
service.
Demonstrates understanding of the process
for effective resource utilisation.
Demonstrates understanding of, and
conforms to, relevant standards of practice.
Demonstrates ability
to identify and resolve risk
management issues according to policy/
protocol.
Follows professional and
organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management.
Demonstrates ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team.
Education, Training and Development
Understands and demonstrates the characteristics of a role
model to members in the team and/or
service.
Demonstrates understanding of the mentorship process.
Demonstrates ability to conduct
teaching and assessment effectively according to a learning plan with
supervision from a more experienced colleague.
Demonstrates
self-development through continuous professional development activity.
Demonstrates an understanding of
current educational policies relevant to working areas of practice
and keeps up to date
with relevant clinical
practice.
Research and Evaluation
Demonstrates ability to critically evaluate
and review literature.
Demonstrates ability
to identify where
there is a gap in the evidence
base to support practice.
Demonstrates ability
to generate evidence
suitable for presentation at local level.
Demonstrates ability to apply the
research evidence base into working practice.
Demonstrates understanding of the principles of research governance.
This Job description is intended as a guide
to the scope and responsibilities of the post and is not exhaustive. The
description will be open to regular review and may be amended to take into account new developments at the practice.
To
carry out any other duties as may be required by the practice either
temporarily or permanently.