Job summary
The New Malden & Worcester Park PCN have a exciting
opportunity for a Clinical Pharmacist to join our dynamic multidisciplinary
team. This patient-facing role is to enhance the quality of care for our
patients.
The successful candidate will be provided with excellent clinical
support and an opportunity to develop their primary care skills.
We are looking for motivated, team-orientated individual who
shares our enthusiasm for improving patient care. Previous primary care
experience is preferred as well as excellent verbal communication skills, a
proactive approach and a desire to learn.
As the role develops, you will take
responsibility for areas of chronic disease management and undertake clinical
medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex poly-pharmacy.
You will also provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to
prescription and medication queries.
We
are welcoming applications from qualified Clinical Pharmacists to join our
innovative Primary Care Network (PCN).
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary
team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management, provide face to
face structured medication reviews, manage long term conditions, management of
medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing as well as
manage repeat prescription authorisation and reauthorisations.
- Patient facing long term conditional clinics
- Patient facing Clinical and Care Home medication reviews
- Management of medications
- Unplanned Hospital Admissions
- Repeat Prescribing
- Service Development
- Information Management
- Provide education and training to Primary Healthcare
About us
Kingston GP Chambers is a Federation of all NHS General Practices within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. It was founded in 2008 as a limited company whose shareholders are all 20 GP Practices within Kingston. The company is led by a Board of Directors who are also GP Partners in their own Practices within Kingston.
Kingston GP Chambers has worked collaboratively with both secondary care and the private sector. At present we provide community clinics for Dermatology, Urology, Neurology, Dementia and Diabetes.
In addition, Kingston GP Chambers are at the forefront of improving patient access to primary care. We deliver a comprehensive extended hours service offering GP appointments across three hubs in the evenings Monday to Friday, over the weekend and on Bank Holidays.Kingston GP Chambers has the ability to respond rapidly, and we have continued to demonstrate the capability to provide high-quality, innovative and timely solutions to improving patient care and experience.
We work closely alongside the other GP Federations in Southwest London to continue the government's five-year forward plan and deliver patient services in the community.
We aim to continue to grow as we are increasingly recognised as the provider of choice for extended, enhanced and urgent GP services. We also expect an increasing role as we support, reinforce and develop the position of general practice as the core building block for an increasing range of jointly-provided services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Patient facing long term condition clinics
- Carry out
consultations with patients with single or multiple medical conditions where
medicine optimisation is preferred
- Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of
monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicine
taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines.
- Make appropriate
recommendations to GPs for medicines improvement.
Patient facing clinical medication review
- Undertake
clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for GPs
on prescribing/monitoring.
Patient facing Care Home Medication Review
- Undertake
clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for GPs
on prescribing and monitoring.
- Work with care home staff to improve safety and
appropriate medication ordering (medication waste)
Patient facing domiciliary clinical medication review
- Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations
for the senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and GPs on prescribing and
monitoring.
- Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conference
Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments
- Managing
caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working
within scope of practice and limits of competence.
- Sign posting to community
pharmacy and referring to appropriate healthcare professional i.e., GP/Practice
Nurse/ Advanced Nurse Practitioner
- Telephone medication support provide telephone support for
patients with queries or concerns about their medication
- Management of medications at discharge from hospital to
reconcile medications upon discharge from hospitals, immediate care and into
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 medication supplies to high-risk groups of patients.
Medicines information to practice staff and patients
- Answer relevant medication queries from GPs, other network staff, other
healthcare teams (e.g., community pharmacy) and patients with queries about
medications.
- Suggest and recommend solutions. Provide follow up with patients
to monitor the effect of any changes
Unplanned hospital admissions
- Review the use of medicines
most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions
through audit and individual patient reviews.
- Put in place changes to reduce
the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups.
- 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 review etc.
Repeat Prescribing
- Adhere and work within each networks
repeat prescribing policy. Manage the repeat prescribing and re-authorisation
process by reviewing patient requests for repeat medications and review
medication review dates and arranging a review for these patients.
- Ensure
patients have the appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.
- Risk stratification identification of cohorts of patients
at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer
searches.
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)
Information management
- Analyse, interpret and present
medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.
Medicines quality improvement
- Undertake clinical audits of
prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement
changes in conjunction with the relevant practice team.
Medicines safety
- Implement changes to medicines that
result from MHRA drug safety alerts.
- Implementation of local and national guidelines and
formulary recommendations - monitor practice prescribing against the local and
national formulary.
- Make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be
prescribed by hospital doctors or subject to shared care.
- To work with local
medicines management team to ensure practice compliance to local formulary.
Education and Training
- Provide education and training to
primary healthcare team on therapeutic and medicines optimisation
Care Quality Commission
Work with the general practice
team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are
involved
Public Health
- To support public health campaigns. To
provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the
general public.
- Collaborative working arrangements
- Participate in the PCN MDT meetings.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Patient facing long term condition clinics
- Carry out
consultations with patients with single or multiple medical conditions where
medicine optimisation is preferred
- Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of
monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicine
taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines.
- Make appropriate
recommendations to GPs for medicines improvement.
Patient facing clinical medication review
- Undertake
clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for GPs
on prescribing/monitoring.
Patient facing Care Home Medication Review
- Undertake
clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for GPs
on prescribing and monitoring.
- Work with care home staff to improve safety and
appropriate medication ordering (medication waste)
Patient facing domiciliary clinical medication review
- Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations
for the senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and GPs on prescribing and
monitoring.
- Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conference
Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments
- Managing
caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working
within scope of practice and limits of competence.
- Sign posting to community
pharmacy and referring to appropriate healthcare professional i.e., GP/Practice
Nurse/ Advanced Nurse Practitioner
- Telephone medication support provide telephone support for
patients with queries or concerns about their medication
- Management of medications at discharge from hospital to
reconcile medications upon discharge from hospitals, immediate care and into
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 medication supplies to high-risk groups of patients.
Medicines information to practice staff and patients
- Answer relevant medication queries from GPs, other network staff, other
healthcare teams (e.g., community pharmacy) and patients with queries about
medications.
- Suggest and recommend solutions. Provide follow up with patients
to monitor the effect of any changes
Unplanned hospital admissions
- Review the use of medicines
most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions
through audit and individual patient reviews.
- Put in place changes to reduce
the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups.
- 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 review etc.
Repeat Prescribing
- Adhere and work within each networks
repeat prescribing policy. Manage the repeat prescribing and re-authorisation
process by reviewing patient requests for repeat medications and review
medication review dates and arranging a review for these patients.
- Ensure
patients have the appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.
- Risk stratification identification of cohorts of patients
at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer
searches.
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)
Information management
- Analyse, interpret and present
medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.
Medicines quality improvement
- Undertake clinical audits of
prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement
changes in conjunction with the relevant practice team.
Medicines safety
- Implement changes to medicines that
result from MHRA drug safety alerts.
- Implementation of local and national guidelines and
formulary recommendations - monitor practice prescribing against the local and
national formulary.
- Make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be
prescribed by hospital doctors or subject to shared care.
- To work with local
medicines management team to ensure practice compliance to local formulary.
Education and Training
- Provide education and training to
primary healthcare team on therapeutic and medicines optimisation
Care Quality Commission
Work with the general practice
team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are
involved
Public Health
- To support public health campaigns. To
provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the
general public.
- Collaborative working arrangements
- Participate in the PCN MDT meetings.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent).
- Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
- Independent prescriber and completion of CPPE.
Desirable
- Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining an independent prescribing qualification;
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society; Hospital or Primary Care experience; In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare.
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years experience as a pharmacist.
- Have some experience and an awareness of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
- Recognises priorities when problem-solving and identifies deviations from normal pattern and can refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
- Able to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct.
Desirable
- Good IT Skills.
- Work under pressure;
- Desirable - experience with using EMIS Good written and oral communication skills.
- Understanding of the nature of GP and General Practice.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Understands and demonstrates the characteristics of a role model to members in the team and/or service.
- 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.
- Ensures appropriate clinical supervision is in place to support development.
- Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace.
- Demonstrate understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision.
- Demonstrates ability to improve quality within limitations of service.
- Reviews yearly progress and develops clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others.
- Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve goals.
- Promotes diversity and equality in people management techniques and leads by example.
Desirable
- Good IT Skills; Work under pressure;
- Desirable - experience with using EMIS
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Understanding of the nature of GP and General Practice.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent).
- Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
- Independent prescriber and completion of CPPE.
Desirable
- Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining an independent prescribing qualification;
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society; Hospital or Primary Care experience; In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare.
Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 2 years experience as a pharmacist.
- Have some experience and an awareness of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
- Recognises priorities when problem-solving and identifies deviations from normal pattern and can refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
- Able to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct.
Desirable
- Good IT Skills.
- Work under pressure;
- Desirable - experience with using EMIS Good written and oral communication skills.
- Understanding of the nature of GP and General Practice.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Understands and demonstrates the characteristics of a role model to members in the team and/or service.
- 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.
- Ensures appropriate clinical supervision is in place to support development.
- Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace.
- Demonstrate understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision.
- Demonstrates ability to improve quality within limitations of service.
- Reviews yearly progress and develops clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others.
- Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve goals.
- Promotes diversity and equality in people management techniques and leads by example.
Desirable
- Good IT Skills; Work under pressure;
- Desirable - experience with using EMIS
- Good written and oral communication skills
- Understanding of the nature of GP 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).
Additional 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).
