Job summary
The GP Care Group CIC is looking for a Primary Care
Network (PCN) Clinical Pharmacist to work within the Network 1 PCN, a Tower
Hamlets GP Network located in Bethnal Green, covering 50,000 patients across
four practices.
The successful candidate will benefit through being
a GP Care Group employee with full access to the numerous employee benefits
that the GP federation offers, in addition to the structured support offered by
the PCN.
Main duties of the job
The
successful candidate will be responsible for implementing an effective medicine
management system within the PCN practices. You will be expected to work to
achieve cost-effective prescribing, work as an independent prescriber, provide
advice and support for both patients and colleagues, undertake all duties expected
within the changing role over time.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we
receive sufficient applications for the role.
About us
Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (The Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.
Read up more about Tower Hamlets here: http://www.towerhamlets.is/
The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.
The key priorities for the Care Group are:
- Innovation and support for primary care
- Being a great place to work
- Integrating primary and community care
- Providing of high-quality cost-effective care to local people
- Influencing improvements in health outcomes
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
- See (where
appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine
optimisation is required (e.g. Respiratory, Cardiovascular and Diabetes).
Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an
opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get
the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation).
- Undertake
clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for
senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.
- Undertake
clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the
senior clinical pharmacist, nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Work
with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and
administration.
- Undertake
clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the
senior clinical pharmacists, nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.
- Identification
of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared
practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related,
medicine related, or both.
- 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.
- Managing
caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working
within a scope of practice and limits of competence. Signposting to community
pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where
appropriate.
- Provide
patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about
their medicines in the practice.
- Provide
a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about
their medicines.
- To
reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate 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 medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those with
medicine compliance aids or those in Care Homes).
- Answers
relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other network staff, other
healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about
medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up for
patients to monitor the effect of any changes.
- 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.
- Produce
and implement a repeat prescribing policy within each PCN practice. 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.
- 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).
- Analyse,
interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support
decision making.
- Undertake
clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the
results and implement changes in conjunction with the relevant practice team.
- Implement
changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other
local and national guidance.
- Monitor
practice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list and make
recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital
doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs). Assist practices
in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on each
practices computer system, auditing practices compliance against NICE
technology assessment guidance, providing newsletters or bulletins on important
prescribing messages.
- Provide
education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines
optimisation.
- Work
with the general practice teams to ensure the practices are compliant with CQC
standards where medicines are involved.
- To
support public health campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public
health programmes available to the general public.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
- See (where
appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine
optimisation is required (e.g. Respiratory, Cardiovascular and Diabetes).
Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an
opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get
the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation).
- Undertake
clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for
senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.
- Undertake
clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the
senior clinical pharmacist, nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Work
with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and
administration.
- Undertake
clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the
senior clinical pharmacists, nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.
- Identification
of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared
practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related,
medicine related, or both.
- 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.
- Managing
caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working
within a scope of practice and limits of competence. Signposting to community
pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where
appropriate.
- Provide
patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about
their medicines in the practice.
- Provide
a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about
their medicines.
- To
reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate 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 medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those with
medicine compliance aids or those in Care Homes).
- Answers
relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other network staff, other
healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about
medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up for
patients to monitor the effect of any changes.
- 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.
- Produce
and implement a repeat prescribing policy within each PCN practice. 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.
- 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).
- Analyse,
interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support
decision making.
- Undertake
clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the
results and implement changes in conjunction with the relevant practice team.
- Implement
changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other
local and national guidance.
- Monitor
practice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list and make
recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital
doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs). Assist practices
in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on each
practices computer system, auditing practices compliance against NICE
technology assessment guidance, providing newsletters or bulletins on important
prescribing messages.
- Provide
education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines
optimisation.
- Work
with the general practice teams to ensure the practices are compliant with CQC
standards where medicines are involved.
- To
support public health campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public
health programmes available to the general public.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified member of the GPhC and hold at least an undergraduate degree in pharmacy.
Experience
Essential
- Explain your understanding of the PCN Clinical Pharmacist role and how it fits into the needs of primary care prescribing.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Demonstrate you have completed the CPPE Primary Care Education Pathway or are you working towards it.
Qualification
Essential
- Demonstrate you have qualified as an independent prescriber or working towards qualification.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Demonstrate whether you would be interested in completing the advanced clinical pharmacist pathway.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified member of the GPhC and hold at least an undergraduate degree in pharmacy.
Experience
Essential
- Explain your understanding of the PCN Clinical Pharmacist role and how it fits into the needs of primary care prescribing.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Demonstrate you have completed the CPPE Primary Care Education Pathway or are you working towards it.
Qualification
Essential
- Demonstrate you have qualified as an independent prescriber or working towards qualification.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Demonstrate whether you would be interested in completing the advanced clinical pharmacist pathway.
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.
