Job summary
- Providing support to general practice colleagues with regards to prescription and medication queries.
- Prescribing to patients, providing advice on appropriate dosing and routes of administration, addressing both public and social care needs of patients in the GP practice.
- Providing clinical leadership on medicines optimisation, quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
- Ensuring that the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload.
Main duties of the job
- Conducting clinical medication reviews and advising GPs or nurses on prescribing.
- Supporting patients in understanding and using their medicines effectively.
- Managing repeat prescriptions and ensuring medicines are reviewed and monitored regularly.
- Answering medicine-related queries from healthcare professionals and patients.
- Leading or assisting in public health initiatives, such as hypertension clinics and vaccination programs.
- Ensuring compliance and safety in prescribing and dispensing processes.
- Conducting audits, providing education, and contributing to achieving Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) targets.
- Maintaining accurate records and supporting new service development related to medicines.
About us
From a single store in 1861 we have grown to be one of the most successful co-operatives in the UK. Were proud to be able to offer a wide range of services from across our family of businesses. From Food Stores and Pharmacies to Post Offices and Support Services, were a growing society made up of over 220 outlets and nearly 3,000 colleagues.
We're owned by our members, the people of Lincolnshire and surrounding counties, and have been for more than 160 years! Communities are at the heart of everything we do and motivates us to deliver more than great customer service. We support them by sharing dividend with our members, investing in new and improved services, raising money for charity through our Community Champion scheme, supporting local schools and so much more! Find out more about us, our purpose and wonderful colleagueshere.
We work together as a Society and are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is barrier free and as inclusive as possible for everyone. If you need any adjustments, would like us to do anything differently during the interview or would like to get in touch with us about anything else, please contact our Recruitment team on (01522) 533316, or alternatively you can emailcareers@lincolnshire.coop.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Seeing (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia, asthma/COPD etc.)
- Reviewing the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines ensuring they are getting best use from their prescriptions
- Undertaking clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the Senior Clinical Pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.
- Signposting and referral of patients to community pharmacy and referral to other healthcare professionals where appropriate
- Supporting the planning and organisation of cross sector hypertension case finding clinics.
- Answering relevant medicinerelated enquiries from GPs, other practice colleagues, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines
- Providing specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.
- Managing 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.
- Providing pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets)
- Undertaking clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feeding back the results and implementing changes in conjunction with the practice team.
- Providing education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
- Providing longitudinal care by maintaining accurate documentation. Ensuring interventions are coded appropriately.
- Supporting practices to achieve the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) indicators.
- Checking patients' prescriptions for accuracy and safety, ensuring no drugs are contraindicated with one another.
- Ensuring legal compliance in the pharmacy, reviewing labels, doses and procedures as required.
- Organising and directing workflow, verifying the preparation and labelling of pharmaceuticals and verifying order entries, charges and inspections.
- Securing inventories-controlled drugs to maintain compliance with regulations.
- Communicating effectively with doctors about prescriptions.
- Offering various wellness and health-screening services, such as blood-pressure monitoring, flu and other vaccine administration, and diabetes screening.
- Ensuring the correct usage of the Electronic Prescription Service tracker to process claims and manage this process.
- Providing information to patients on how get the maximum benefit from the medicines they are prescribed.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Seeing (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia, asthma/COPD etc.)
- Reviewing the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines ensuring they are getting best use from their prescriptions
- Undertaking clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the Senior Clinical Pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.
- Signposting and referral of patients to community pharmacy and referral to other healthcare professionals where appropriate
- Supporting the planning and organisation of cross sector hypertension case finding clinics.
- Answering relevant medicinerelated enquiries from GPs, other practice colleagues, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines
- Providing specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.
- Managing 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.
- Providing pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets)
- Undertaking clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feeding back the results and implementing changes in conjunction with the practice team.
- Providing education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
- Providing longitudinal care by maintaining accurate documentation. Ensuring interventions are coded appropriately.
- Supporting practices to achieve the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) indicators.
- Checking patients' prescriptions for accuracy and safety, ensuring no drugs are contraindicated with one another.
- Ensuring legal compliance in the pharmacy, reviewing labels, doses and procedures as required.
- Organising and directing workflow, verifying the preparation and labelling of pharmaceuticals and verifying order entries, charges and inspections.
- Securing inventories-controlled drugs to maintain compliance with regulations.
- Communicating effectively with doctors about prescriptions.
- Offering various wellness and health-screening services, such as blood-pressure monitoring, flu and other vaccine administration, and diabetes screening.
- Ensuring the correct usage of the Electronic Prescription Service tracker to process claims and manage this process.
- Providing information to patients on how get the maximum benefit from the medicines they are prescribed.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Have experience and an awareness of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
- Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and can implement this appropriately within the workplace.
- Understands and demonstrates the characteristics of a role model to members in the team and/or service.
- Committed to continual personal and professional development.
- To understand customer needs and provide excellent customer care.
- A flexible approach to ways of working.
- A proven track record of utilising their own initiative and prioritising own time.
- Excellent communication skills with a willingness to embrace new challenges and an ability to listen and engage effectively.
Desirable
- Prior experience in general practice is desirable.
- Experience in SystmOne is desirable.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in a relevant qualification, registered with the GPhC and eligible to work in the UK.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Have experience and an awareness of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in general practice.
- Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and can implement this appropriately within the workplace.
- Understands and demonstrates the characteristics of a role model to members in the team and/or service.
- Committed to continual personal and professional development.
- To understand customer needs and provide excellent customer care.
- A flexible approach to ways of working.
- A proven track record of utilising their own initiative and prioritising own time.
- Excellent communication skills with a willingness to embrace new challenges and an ability to listen and engage effectively.
Desirable
- Prior experience in general practice is desirable.
- Experience in SystmOne is desirable.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in a relevant qualification, registered with the GPhC and eligible to work in the UK.
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).
