Pharmacist (Primary Care) - Ashgrove Medical Group

Job description

Job responsibilities

JOB TITLE: PRACTICE PHARMACIST

REPORTS TO: SENIOR PRACTICE PHARMACIST (Professionally)

PRACTICE MANAGER (Line Manager)

HOURS: 8-10 Sessions

Job summary:

The post-holder will be an experienced pharmacist, ideally with experience in general practice. The role will include performing medication reviews, supporting medicines management of long term conditions alongside the nursing team, managing acute medication requests and overseeing discharge summary medicines alignment. The role involves an opportunity to develop skills in supporting pharmacy technicians, develop skills to manage enhanced services and QAIF activities related to prescribing. The role will work alongside the multi-disciplinary primary care team, including formal MDT meetings, to manage a wide range of health needs in a primary care setting, ensuring the highest standards of care for all registered and temporary patients.

Clinical responsibilities:

Undertake patient consultations by telephone, video, eConsultation or face to face, as appropriate, pertaining to:

o General medication and polypharmacy reviews

o Long term conditions reviewing compliance, effectiveness, side effects, progression of symptoms, recommending monitoring and changes to medication in accordance with local and national guidelines, and practice protocols

o Acute medication requests

Providing advice to members of the clinical team regarding medication management with reference to local and national guidelines, online resources and pharmacy resources

Liaising with community and health board pharmacists regarding medication management

Ensuring all patients on shared care medications have appropriate documentation and treatment plans in place and that these are adhered to with recommended monitoring in place

Developing care plans for health in consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols

Providing counselling and health education relating to medication, including polypharmacy review and deprescribing

Identifying patients with poor compliance or high risk use for clinical review

Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards

Collecting data for audit purposes

Compiling and issuing computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions

Support the Senior Practice Pharmacist in:

Reviewing national and local guidance for pharmacists in general practice and recommending changes in practice to the partners

Develop practice policies and protocols for safe and effective use of medicines, delivering prudent healthcare

Direct contribution to enhanced service provision e.g. Near Patient Testing, Substance Misuse, Anti-Coagulation (DOAC & Warfarin initiation and monitoring of both), Denosumab, Gonadorelins, and Gender Identity treatments

Lead on practice prescribing in accordance with the practice prescribing formulary (or generically) whenever this is clinically appropriate

Education & Training:

Support supervision to pharmacy technician and cluster pharmacy technician in accordance with GPhC standards

Contribute to education and training of the wider MDT regarding prescribing and medication management generally

Contribute to providing meaningful experience to undergraduate pharmacists undertaking placements in general practice

Undertake Continuing Professional Development in accordance with requirements for continued registration with the GPhC

Other responsibilities within the organisation:

Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g. prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety

A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice

As part of the pharmacy team, contribute to cluster plans pertaining to prescribing and medications management

Contributing to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation

Contribute to maintaining the practice performance within the prescribing incentive schemes

Contribute to clinical governance of the practice, clinical audit and participate in the reporting of incidents to the clinical governance lead

Contributing to the development of computer-based patient records, including searches in Vision where relevant to prescribing

Contributing to the summarising of patient records and read-coding patient data

Attending training, clinical meetings and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate.

Confidentiality:

In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately

In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential

Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Equality and diversity:

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation

Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues

Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/professional development:

In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that professional development requirements for GPhC Registration are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice as part of this employment, with such training to include:

Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development

Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

Quality:

The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:

Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk

Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision

Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the teams performance

Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs

Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

Contribute to the clinical governance of the practice and to fully participate in the reporting of incidents to the clinical governance lead.

Communication:

The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

Communicate effectively with other team members

Communicate effectively with patients and carers

Recognise peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Contribution to the implementation of services:

The post-holder will:

Apply practice policies, standards and guidance

Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work

Participate in audits and significant event analysis where appropriate.

Person Specification

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Ability to work flexibly with the ability to travel between sites
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Good organisational skills
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Time management skills
• Ability to plan, prioritise and organize workload

Desirable

• Innovative
• Ability to speak Welsh
• Good IT skills
• People management
• Ability to make decisions
• Teaching skills

Qualifications

Essential

• Master Degree in Pharmacy or Equivalent
• Registered with GPhC

Desirable

• Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Independent non medical prescriber
• Additional qualifications in substance misuse / anticoagulation management
• Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experience in assessment and management of Long Term Conditions
• QIST training

Experience

Essential

• Post registration pharmacy experience
• Previous experience with direct patient contact
• Experience in a range of clinical specialties
• Experience of multidisciplinary working

Desirable

• Experience of using EMIS
• Community Pharmacy Experience
• Running searches, performing audits and presenting results

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

GP Practice in Wales

Address

Ashgrove Surgery

Morgan Street

Pontypridd

Mid Glamorgan

CF37 2DR

Employer's website

https://gpwales.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)