Job responsibilities
Job
Description
JOB TITLE: Remote
Pharmacist NICS
REPORTS TO: Medical
Director
North West Surrey Integrated Care Services
(NICS):
You will be able to work flexible hours from
home (6 hours month) to support NICS monthly prescribing audits for the AIC and
UTC.
Our Vision
To support our practices and patient
is by being a lead provider of innovative, responsive and high-quality
GP-linked primary care services in North West Surrey, delivering equitable
access to primary care services and improving the healthcare of our population.
Our Mission
To support our practices and
their patents by providing high quality, responsive and compassionate health
care services. We do this by working collaboratively with our practices and
other health providers across Surrey.
Our Values
Our values are at the heart of
everything that we do and inspire us.
Our responsibilities and personal interaction with patients and with
others are guided by our core values of working together for our patients, commitment
to quality of care, ensuring everyone counts and improving lives.
Job summary:
The post holder will be
an experienced pharmacist with an independent prescribing qualification who
acts within their professional boundaries as part of a multidisciplinary
team. They will be able to work
collaboratively with all members of the multi-professional team to help resolve
medication related issues and work to improve the quality and safety of care
offered to the registered patients in the locality of North West Surrey. This is a non-patient facing role.
Job
responsibilities:
This will entail monthly audits of antibiotic
prescribing for UTC areas, and monthly audits of antibiotic prescribing and
high risk medications (e.g. benzodiazepines) for AIC. You will be checking, the
indication prescribed for and if in line with NICE guidance, quantity,
duration, necessity of prescription and if appropriate whether this was 1st
line choice for treatment.
You will
be expected to provide feedback on what suitable alternatives may be and feed
this back to the team. Alongside this bi-annually audits include anti-emetics,
quinolones, and gabapentinoids.
You will also review Medicine Safety data
provided by the MO team, and highlight any concerns revolving prescribing and
feed this into our Quality Matters, which gets disseminated every 2 months.
This could be surrounding overprescribing high cost medications, branded drugs
and OTC preparations as recent examples.
You will help interpret the monthly Surrey
Heartlands prescribing data, be able to feedback to clinicians on prescribing,
ACP prescribing audits and meetings.
The post holder will also be required to help
identify MHRA alerts and disseminate these to the wider team, as well as
contributing to the Quality matters with any prescribing updates and learnings.
You will have the opportunity to support with
new PGD design, implementation and meetings.
Confidentiality:
Everyone
working in or for the NHS has the responsibility to use information and data in
a secure and confidential way. Staff who have access to information about
individuals (whether patients, staff, or others) need to use it effectively,
whilst maintaining appropriate levels of confidentiality. You must be aware of
the data protection legislation in relation to data security (confidentiality, integrity,
and availability) and ensure strict adherence to the provisions therein at all times.
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,
NICS staff and other healthcare workers.
They may also have access to information relating to NICS 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 NICS may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with
the NICS policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection
of personal and sensitive data.
Health & safety:
The
post-holder will implement and lead on the full range of promotion and
management their own and others health, safety and security as defined in NICS
Health & Safety policy and NICS Infection Control policy and published
procedures. This will include (but will not be limited to):
Ensuring
job holders across our services adhere to their individual responsibilities for
infection control and health and safety, using a system of observation, audit
and check, hazard identification, questioning, reporting and risk management.
Maintaining
an up-to-date knowledge of health, safety, and infection control statutory and
best practice guidelines and ensuring implementation across the business.
Using
personal security systems within the workplace according to NICS guidelines
Identifying
the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way
that manages those risks across the business.
Making
effective use of training to update knowledge and skills, initiate, and manage
the training of others.
Using
appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and
safe way and free from hazards, and initiation of remedial / corrective action
where needed
Actively
identifying, reporting, and correcting health and safety hazards and infection
hazards immediately when recognised
Keeping
own work areas and general / patient areas generally clean, identifying issues
and hazards / risks in relation to other work areas within the business, and
assuming responsibility in the maintenance of general standards of cleanliness
across the business in consultation (where appropriate) with other sector
managers
Undertaking
periodic infection control training (minimum annually)
Routine
management of own team / team areas, and maintenance of workspace standards
Demonstrate
due regard for safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children.
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 that is welcoming to, of the individual, is non-judgmental, and
respects their circumstances, feelings priorities and rights.
Personal/Professional
development:
The
post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by NICS 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.
Communication:
The
post-holder should recognise 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
local policies, standards, and guidance.
Discuss
with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will
affect their own work.
Participate
in audit where appropriate.
Person
Specification:
Criteria
Essential
Desirable
Qualifications and Training
A
Registered Clinical Pharmacist to be able to practice and prescribe safely
and effectively in a primary care setting (for example, the CPPE Clinical
Pharmacist training pathways)
Mandatory
Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
Membership
of the Royal
Pharmaceutical Society
Extensive
knowledge of medicines optimisation
Masters
degree in pharmacy (M. Pharm) or equivalent.
Independent
prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing
qualification
Post
graduate degree level or equivalent
Membership
of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Skills, Knowledge, and experience
Understanding
of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
An
appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices
An
appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational
prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
Excellent
interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
Excellent
written and verbal communication skills
Demonstrates
the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an
understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)
Can
plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues
in core areas for long-term conditions.
Good
IT skills
Able
to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
Recognises
priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal
pattern and can refer to seniors or GPs where appropriate.
Able
to work under pressure and to meet deadlines.
Minimum
of 3 years post-qualification experience
Personal Qualities and Skills
Self-Motivator
Excellent
communicator
Passion
for improving health outcomes.
Curious
nature
