Job responsibilities
Working in an established
PCN Clinical Pharmacy team of 2 Clinical Pharmacists, a team of Remote Clinical
Pharmacists and 2 Pharmacy Technicians to support and successfully embed clinical
pharmacists into general practice.
Based at the PCN
hub with additional requirements for Face to Face consultations at the member
Practices.
To contribute to
structured medication reviews or medication re-authorisations.
To provide
professional specialist medicines management advice to GPs, practice nurses,
community pharmacists, community nurses and other health professionals to
promote the safe, effective and high quality, cost effective use of medicines
in all prescribing decisions.
To support practices
with relevant Quality Improvement Framework, PCN Direct Enhanced Service Impact
and Investment Fund targets.
To support
practices with the Staffordshire medicine optimisation agreement.
To identify,
develop and promote quality improvements in medicines management across our GP
practices ensuring that best practice is adopted.
To provide support
to our pharmacy technician to deliver the medicines management goals.
To encourage
better pharmaceutical understanding throughout the primary health care team.
Undertake risk
assessment and management and ensure compliance with medicines legislation.
Liaise with
prescribing colleagues primary and secondary care to ensure consistency with system-wide
prescribing strategies.
To contribute to
the development & implementation of new medicines management initiatives
and services within the PCN GP practices.
Contribute to the
clinical medication review service to care homes and other work streams as
required.
Key Working Relationships
GP, nurses and
other practice staff
Other Clinical
Pharmacist and Pharmacy Technician in the PCN Pharmacy Team
Members of the ICB
Medicines Management (MM) team including pharmacists
GP prescribing
lead
Locality managers
Community nurses
and other allied health professionals
Community
pharmacists and support staff.
Overview of Responsibilities
To
provide and receive complex information relating to medicines and medicines
management:
o
This
includes clinical information regarding patient care, technical medicines
management/therapeutics information and prescribing activity data derived from
audit and prescribing data
o
The
post holder will need to receive this from and provide it to patients, carers
and other health professionals. He/she may need to persuade the recipients of
the validity and relevance of the information/argument,
and negotiate actions in line with medicines management goals
o
The
post holder may have to adjust his/her communication style and content to take
account of the other persons language difficulties and intellectual abilities.
To
analyse, interpret and compare complex information and/or a range of options
o
This
will usually, but not always, relate the topics outlined above
o
The
post holder will apply his/her technical knowledge to complex clinical and/or
medicines management situations.
To
provide highly specialised advice concerning care of individual patients and
groups of patients
o
This
includes advice on choice of drug treatment, including choice of drug(s), side
effects and doses
o
This
advice will be in response to review and analysis of patient prescriptions and prescribing
data
o
This
will also involve ensuring compliance with medicines legislation, National
Patient Safety Agency advisory notices and other established good practice to
manage and minimise risk.
To
propose and implement policy or service changes that impact within and beyond
the post holders own role, including work within the practices, community
pharmacies and Medicine Management team. This
includes the development of prescribing or medicines management guidelines and
protocols.
To plan and
organise the post holders own workload, including audit and project work and
training sessions for members of the Medicines Management Team, Practice Team, and
Community Pharmacy Team.
To support the
day-to-day work of a Pharmacy Technician working under the direction of the
post-holder. This includes any formal and informal teaching of colleagues as
required.
To work to ensure
best value for money and avoidance of waste in relation to medicines and
contribute to the reduction in fraud related to medicines and pharmacy
consistent with the post holders position in the organisation.
To
participate in audit as appropriate.
The
post holder acts as a lead specialist within his/her area and has discretion to
work within the parameters defined by the post holders line manager and more
senior clinicians.
To
maintain registration as a pharmacist and comply with appropriate professional
codes.
To
enrol and complete the CPPE pathway for PCN Clinical Pharmacists, if not
already completed.
As
appropriate to the post, to maintain and develop professional competence and
expertise, keep up to date with medical or therapeutic evidence and opinion,
local and national service, legislation and policy developments, agree
objectives and a personal development plan and participate in the appraisal
process.
To
attend local, regional and national meetings of relevance.
To
undertake any other duties commensurate with the post holders grade
as agreed with the post holders line manager.
Health
and Safety
Stone
and Eccleshall PCN expects all staff to have a commitment to promoting and
maintaining a safe and healthy environment and be responsible for their own and
others welfare.
Risk Management
You will be responsible for adopting the Risk Management
Culture and ensuring that you identify and assess all risks to your systems,
processes and environment and report such risks for inclusion within the PSSs
Risk Register. You will also attend mandatory and statutory training, report
all incidents/accidents including near misses and report unsafe occurrences as
laid down within PSSs Incidents and Accidents Policy.
No Smoking Policy
Stone and Eccleshall PCN is a no smoking organisation
therefore staff are not permitted to smoke whilst on duty.
Other Duties
There may be a requirement to undertake other duties as may
reasonably be required to support Stone and Eccleshall PCN. These may be based
at other Stone and Eccleshall PCN managed locations.
Equality and Diversity
The post-holder must
co-operate with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of
employment. Co-workers, patients and visitors must be treated equally irrespective
of gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc.
Respect for Patient Confidentiality
The post-holder should
respect patient confidentiality at all times and not divulge patient
information unless sanctioned by the requirements of the role.
Special Working Conditions
The post-holder is required to
travel independently between practice sites (where applicable), and to attend
meetings hosted by other agencies.
The post-holder may have contact
with body fluids i.e. wound exudates; urine etc. while in clinical practice.
Job Description Agreement
This job description is intended
to provide an outline of the key tasks and responsibilities only. There may be
other duties required of the post-holder commensurate with the position. This
description will be open to regular review and may be amended to take into
account development within the Practice. All members of staff should be
prepared to take on additional duties or relinquish existing duties in order to
maintain the efficient running of the Practice.
This job description is intended
as a basic guide to the scope and responsibilities of the post and is not
exhaustive. It will be subject to regular review and amendment as necessary in
consultation with the post holder.
