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- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm)
- Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Clinical diploma
- Independent prescriber
- A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience
- 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
- Good IT skills
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
- Masters degree in pharmacy (MPharm)
- Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Clinical diploma
- Independent prescriber
- A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience
- 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
- Good IT skills
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
Job summary
The post holder will work directly with multi-disciplinary teams to improve clinical effectiveness and person-centred outcomes. The role will be based within the GP member practices providing support to the GPs and other healthcare professionals within the teams to improve the health of patients through the rational and safe use of medicines. The post holder will contribute to the efficient working of the PCN team by leading on key areas in relation to medicines optimisation. The role will include face to face and remote patient contact, as well as liaison with colleagues in community pharmacy, care homes and secondary care.
For further information about the role or an informal discussion, please contact Kathryn Kyle Kathryn.kyle@nhs.net
Main duties of the job
To develop and facilitate a good working relationship with community pharmacists and other local providers of healthcare.
To liaise effectively with other health care teams concerned with the patient care as appropriate and with all other disciplines within the practice.
To plan and organise own workload, including audit and project work, and training sessions for members of the medicines management team, practice team, community pharmacy team, community nurse team, patients, carers, etc.
To ensure that all patient information following consultations, and telephone encounters are recorded accurately on the computer.
To maintain registration as a pharmacist and comply with appropriate professional codes.
To attend practice and other meetings of relevance as required.
Participate in the induction, education and training of new members of practice staff including students where appropriate.
As appropriate to the post, to maintain and develop professional competence and expertise, keep up to date with medical/therapeutic evidence and opinion and local and national service legislation and policy developments, participate in the appraisal process and agree objectives and a personal development plan.
To undertake any other duties commensurate with the post holders grade as agreed with the post holders line manager
About us
Taunton Central Primary Care Network is a relatively new organisation but our five member practices have a strong history of collaborative working to develop the best patient-centred care and services. The PCN has approximately 66,500 patients registered with four practices in Taunton and one practice in the neighbouring village of Bishops Lydeard. We pride ourselves on our ability and willingness to adopt innovative ways of working that improve patient care and make our PCN a rewarding place to work.
Details
Date posted
19 May 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
Depending on experience
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
A2706-25-0000
Job locations
St. James Medical Centre
Coal Orchard
Taunton
Somerset
TA1 1JP
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility
Note: Duties and Areas of Responsibility will vary between the practices according to needs. They may include the following examples:
Patient facing Long Term Condition Clinics
See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required.
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).
Run own long-term condition clinics where responsible for prescribing as an independent prescriber.
Patient facing Clinical Medication
Review
Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for/implement changes in prescribing and monitoring.
Patient facing care home medication reviews
Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients/carers and produce recommendations /implement changes in prescribing and monitoring.
Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
Patient facing domiciliary clinical
medication review
Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for /implement changes in prescribing and monitoring.
Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.
Patient facing medicines support
Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines
Management of common/minor/self -limiting
ailments
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
Telephone medicines support
Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.
Medicine information to practice staff
and patients
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 the effect of any changes
Unplanned hospital admissions
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 highrisk patient groups.
Management of medicines at discharge
from hospital
To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients, dispensers 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 highrisk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).
Signposting
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.
Repeat prescribing/dispensing
Support 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.
Support the development of repeat dispensing services where appropriate.
Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place
Risk stratification
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.
Service development
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).
Information management
Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making
Medicines quality improvement
Undertake clinical audits of prescribing to identify areas for improvement independently or in collaboration with colleagues. Present results & provide leadership on suggested change.
Contribute to local & national research initiatives
Medicines safety
Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
Implementation of local and national
guidelines and formulary
recommendations
Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs).
Assist practices in maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system.
Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance.
Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.
Education and Training
Provide education and training to primary healthcare team & visiting students on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
Care Quality Commission
Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
Public health
To support public health campaigns.
To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public
Contract Work
Contribute toall GMS, PCN Network DES, QOF, DSQS contract work
Job responsibilities
Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility
Note: Duties and Areas of Responsibility will vary between the practices according to needs. They may include the following examples:
Patient facing Long Term Condition Clinics
See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required.
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).
Run own long-term condition clinics where responsible for prescribing as an independent prescriber.
Patient facing Clinical Medication
Review
Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for/implement changes in prescribing and monitoring.
Patient facing care home medication reviews
Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients/carers and produce recommendations /implement changes in prescribing and monitoring.
Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
Patient facing domiciliary clinical
medication review
Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for /implement changes in prescribing and monitoring.
Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.
Patient facing medicines support
Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines
Management of common/minor/self -limiting
ailments
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
Telephone medicines support
Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.
Medicine information to practice staff
and patients
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 the effect of any changes
Unplanned hospital admissions
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 highrisk patient groups.
Management of medicines at discharge
from hospital
To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients, dispensers 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 highrisk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).
Signposting
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.
Repeat prescribing/dispensing
Support 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.
Support the development of repeat dispensing services where appropriate.
Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place
Risk stratification
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.
Service development
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).
Information management
Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making
Medicines quality improvement
Undertake clinical audits of prescribing to identify areas for improvement independently or in collaboration with colleagues. Present results & provide leadership on suggested change.
Contribute to local & national research initiatives
Medicines safety
Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
Implementation of local and national
guidelines and formulary
recommendations
Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs).
Assist practices in maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system.
Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance.
Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.
Education and Training
Provide education and training to primary healthcare team & visiting students on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
Care Quality Commission
Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
Public health
To support public health campaigns.
To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public
Contract Work
Contribute toall GMS, PCN Network DES, QOF, DSQS contract work
Person SpecificationPerson Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Additional informationDisclosure 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).
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Taunton Central Primary Care Network
Address
St. James Medical Centre
Coal Orchard
Taunton
Somerset
TA1 1JP
Employer's website
Employer details
Employer name
Taunton Central Primary Care Network
Address
St. James Medical Centre
Coal Orchard
Taunton
Somerset
TA1 1JP
Employer's website
About the company
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