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Job Description
- Req#: B0611-24-0012?language=en&page=33&sort=publicationDateDesc
- Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)
- Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification
- CPPE primary care pathway training course or working towards / intent of completing
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
- Minimum of two years post-qualification experience.
- An appreciation of the nature of PCNs, 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
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)
- Good IT skills
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
- Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
- Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
- Work effectively independently and as a team member
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare.
- Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
- Experience with GP clinical systems
- Self-Motivation
- Adaptable
- Ability and willingness to travel between the practices within the PCN
- In date DBS check
- Immunisation status
- UK Work Permit (if required)
- Safeguarding adult and children level three
- Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm) (or equivalent)
- Independent prescriber or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification
- CPPE primary care pathway training course or working towards / intent of completing
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
- Minimum of two years post-qualification experience.
- An appreciation of the nature of PCNs, 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
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)
- Good IT skills
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
- Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
- Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
- Work effectively independently and as a team member
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence based healthcare.
- Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions.
- Experience with GP clinical systems
- Self-Motivation
- Adaptable
- Ability and willingness to travel between the practices within the PCN
- In date DBS check
- Immunisation status
- UK Work Permit (if required)
- Safeguarding adult and children level three
Job summary
Salary up to £49,614 depending on experience.
North Easington Primary Care Network based in New Seaham Medical Group
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Pharmacist to join our growing multi-disciplinary team.
Teamwork, flexibility, enthusiasm and the ability to prioritise tasks effectively are essential skills.
We are committed to the ongoing development of our team, which includes mandatory and developmental training for all our staff. Team members are encouraged to highlight any training they feel would benefit them in the achievement of their role.
Main duties of the job
Working within your clinical and professional boundaries in a patient facing role as part of a multidisciplinary team to manage medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing. Perform face-to-face structured medication reviews of patients with polypharmacy; especially for those with frailty and/or with multiple co-morbidities as well as undertaking reviews of patients with specific long-term conditions that fall within your competency. Work in partnership with stake holder organisations to improve the safety and quality of care for patients and manage medicines on transfer of care. Deliver medicines optimisation initiatives within GP practices including the provision of specialist professional pharmaceutical advice and services to ensure the safe and cost-effective use of medicines. This will involve work to deliver key medicines optimisation outcomes against a set work plan. Contribute to quality improvement and clinical audit, as well as supporting aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework, medicines safety and antibiotic stewardship. You will also be required to contribute towards practice financial stability through medicines optimisation and related targets in QOF.The post holder will comply with the organisations policies and procedures.
About us
North Easington Primary Care Network is an innovative, dynamic PCN combining 5 local GP Practices based in Seaham, Murton and South Hetton, with a population of over 37,000 patients.We are continually seekingnew ways to support and improve local healthcare services to our patient population.
Date posted
17 April 2024
Pay scheme
Other
Salary
Depending on experience
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
B0611-24-0012
Job locations
New Seaham Medical Group
Eastdene Road
Seaham
County Durham
SR7 8DY
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
Patient facing - long-term condition clinics
Working within the practice-based team to undertake medication reviews particularly in high-risk groups such as:
Frail elderly
Polypharmacy
Renal impairment
Hepatic impairment
Substance misuse
Patients on high-risk medicines
STOPP/START identified patients
Revolving door Hospital admissions
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).
Make appropriate recommendations to GPs for medicine improvement.
Undertake structured medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for nurses and/or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
This would be a level 3 clinical medication review looking at the patients full clinical condition, blood monitoring, interface care arrangements, social isolation etc. including reducing inappropriate polypharmacy and wasteful prescribing.
Undertake structured medication reviews and produce recommendations for nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
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.
Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice 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 and effect of any changes.
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.
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).
Deliver medicines optimisation outcomes against a set workplan dealing with cost saving initiatives, QIPP and medication safety work streams.
Interface with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals including the promotion of the repeat dispensing service
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.
Participate in 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.
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.
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 practice team.
Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
Increase safe and effective prescribing through mechanisms such as audit. Improve quality in prescribing using Quality Improvement methodology including the use of Plan Do Study Act (PDSA) cycles.
Monitor practice prescribing and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors or subject to shared care.
Auditing practices compliance against NICE guidelines.
Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
Work with general practice team to ensure the practice is 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 public.
Job responsibilities
Patient facing - long-term condition clinics
Working within the practice-based team to undertake medication reviews particularly in high-risk groups such as:
Frail elderly
Polypharmacy
Renal impairment
Hepatic impairment
Substance misuse
Patients on high-risk medicines
STOPP/START identified patients
Revolving door Hospital admissions
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).
Make appropriate recommendations to GPs for medicine improvement.
Undertake structured medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for nurses and/or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
This would be a level 3 clinical medication review looking at the patients full clinical condition, blood monitoring, interface care arrangements, social isolation etc. including reducing inappropriate polypharmacy and wasteful prescribing.
Undertake structured medication reviews and produce recommendations for nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
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.
Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice 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 and effect of any changes.
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.
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).
Deliver medicines optimisation outcomes against a set workplan dealing with cost saving initiatives, QIPP and medication safety work streams.
Interface with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals including the promotion of the repeat dispensing service
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.
Participate in 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.
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.
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 practice team.
Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
Increase safe and effective prescribing through mechanisms such as audit. Improve quality in prescribing using Quality Improvement methodology including the use of Plan Do Study Act (PDSA) cycles.
Monitor practice prescribing and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors or subject to shared care.
Auditing practices compliance against NICE guidelines.
Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
Work with general practice team to ensure the practice is 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 public.
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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
South Durham Health CIC
Address
New Seaham Medical Group
Eastdene Road
Seaham
County Durham
SR7 8DY
Employer's website
Employer details
Employer name
South Durham Health CIC
Address
New Seaham Medical Group
Eastdene Road
Seaham
County Durham
SR7 8DY
Employer's website
About the company
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