Job summary
We are looking for a practice pharmacist to work closely with the team to ensure we deliver an effective, efficient and quality medicines management service to our patients and our team.
We are a friendly practice and are keen to develop all our staff to their full potential. You will work closely with our existing team of pharmacists who will support you to expand your professional competence.
Main duties of the job
The Pharmacist will undertake the following tasks.
Medication reviews Face to face, remote and e-consultations) and proactively manage patients ( some with complex polypharmacy). This will include patient education, prescribing and monitoring as per guidelines and within professional competencies.
Work closely with the wider team, advising and supporting on medicine management issues.
Undertake prescribing audits.
Ensure that the PCN is encouraged to promote cost effective prescribing.
Ensure medicines are prescribed and monitored as per the most current guidelines.
Ensure that the PCN systems for drug safety and drug safety monitoring are adhered to at all times. This work will include regular safety audits.
Share knowledge and learning with the wider teams.
Attend regular PCN meetings.
Represent the PCN at outside events.
Contribute to achieving high IIF/ QOF targets.
Undertake medication reviews for housebound/care home patients as needed.
Take an active role to help/ support PCN initiatives.
About us
We are a Primary Care Network (PCN) of six practices working together with a range of local providers, including primary care, community services, social care, and the voluntary sector, to offer more personalized, coordinated health and social care to their local populations.
Our PCN comprises of 49,348 patients over the six practices
The aims of a networks are to:
Protect, improve, and extend local General Practice through greater organisational scale to provide convenient high quality, comprehensive and integrated services.
Enhance the skills and flexibility of the General Practice workforce to meet population and service needs with programmes of continuing professional development.
Work and collaborate with others to innovate in service provision, building on new technologies and recognising lifestyle choices of service users in the way in which they wish to access care.
Our PCN comprises of 49,348 patients over the six practices
Hazelwood Group Practice
27 Parkfield Road, Coleshill B46 3LD
Pear Tree Surgery
28 Meadow Close, Kingsbury, Tamworth B78 2NR
Dordon and Polesworth Group Practice
162 Long Street, Dordon, Tamworth B45 1QA
Satis House Medical Practice
10 Birmingham Road, Water Orton B46 1TH
Hartshill Health Centre
Sidhu Close, Hartshill, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, CV10 0GQ
Camp Hill Surgery
Ramsden Avenue, Nuneaton CV10 9EB
Job description
Job responsibilities
Carry out structured medication reviews on patients with complex polypharmacy, implementing prescribing decisions and requesting appropriate tests.
Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and the community pharmacists to ensure that the patients receive their medication post discharge.
Reconcile medicines from clinic letters with the support from the pharmacy technicians.
Support long term condition reviews
Care home ward rounds to carry out medication reviews and de-prescribe as appropriate.
Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and re-admissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines.
Identify and address medicine related issues.
Act as the interface with community and hospital colleagues.
Manage patients and healthcare professional medicine queries.
In collaboration with the management team Investigate any complaints involving medicine issues.
Increase patient quality and patient safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA cycles. The share the findings with the wider team.
Contribute to service improvement within enhanced services QOF and IIF
Implement drug withdrawals and alerts eg MHRA
Work with the primary care professional and patients to implement NICE and other evidence based guidelines.
Contribute to multi-morbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews.
Provide medicine related information and training to practice staff.
Act as a source of medicine information for all of the practice team and patients eg around supplies, doses, side effects.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Carry out structured medication reviews on patients with complex polypharmacy, implementing prescribing decisions and requesting appropriate tests.
Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and the community pharmacists to ensure that the patients receive their medication post discharge.
Reconcile medicines from clinic letters with the support from the pharmacy technicians.
Support long term condition reviews
Care home ward rounds to carry out medication reviews and de-prescribe as appropriate.
Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and re-admissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines.
Identify and address medicine related issues.
Act as the interface with community and hospital colleagues.
Manage patients and healthcare professional medicine queries.
In collaboration with the management team Investigate any complaints involving medicine issues.
Increase patient quality and patient safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA cycles. The share the findings with the wider team.
Contribute to service improvement within enhanced services QOF and IIF
Implement drug withdrawals and alerts eg MHRA
Work with the primary care professional and patients to implement NICE and other evidence based guidelines.
Contribute to multi-morbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews.
Provide medicine related information and training to practice staff.
Act as a source of medicine information for all of the practice team and patients eg around supplies, doses, side effects.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Independent Prescriber or working towards it. Knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma or equivalent training.
Experience
Essential
- 2 years post qualification experience. 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. Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences
Desirable
- Experience of working in GP practice or Primary Care Network.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
- Independent Prescriber or working towards it. Knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma or equivalent training.
Experience
Essential
- 2 years post qualification experience. 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. Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences
Desirable
- Experience of working in GP practice or Primary Care Network.
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).
