• Job Description

  Req#: E0136-24-0071?language=en&page=816&sort=publicationDateDesc

  Job summary

  The GP Care Group CIC is looking for a Primary Care Network (PCN) Clinical Pharmacist to work within the Network 1 PCN, a Tower Hamlets GP Network located in Bethnal Green, covering 50,000 patients across four practices.

  The successful candidate will benefit through being a GP Care Group employee with full access to the numerous employee benefits that the GP federation offers, in addition to the structured support offered by the PCN.

  Main duties of the job

  The successful candidate will be responsible for implementing an effective medicine management system within the PCN practices. You will be expected to work to achieve cost-effective prescribing, work as an independent prescriber, provide advice and support for both patients and colleagues, undertake all duties expected within the changing role over time.

  We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.

  About us

  Tower Hamlets GP Care Group (The Care Group) was incorporated as a community interest company limited by shares in September 2014. Every general practice in Tower Hamlets owns one share of £1. The Care Group was formed to manage borough level contracts on behalf of the practices, deliver primary care led services and support general practices, and to be the provider voice of primary care in the wider health and social care system.

  Read up more about Tower Hamlets here: http://www.towerhamlets.is/

  The Care Group is also a member of Tower Hamlets Together, a place-based integrated partnership, which includes Bart's Health, East London NHS Foundation Trust, the London Borough of Tower Hamlets and the Council for Voluntary Services.

  The key priorities for the Care Group are:

  • Innovation and support for primary care
  • Being a great place to work
  • Integrating primary and community care
  • Providing of high-quality cost-effective care to local people
  • Influencing improvements in health outcomes

  Date posted

  03 July 2024

  Pay scheme

  Other

  Salary

  Depending on experience up to £55,677 pa depending on skills and experience

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time, Job share, Flexible working, Home or remote working, Compressed hours

  Reference number

  E0136-24-0071

  Job locations

  Island Health

  145 East Ferry Road

  London

  E14 3BQ

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Clinical

  • See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. Respiratory, Cardiovascular and Diabetes). 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).
  • Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.
  • Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacist, nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
  • Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacists, nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other network 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.
  • 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.
  • Produce and implement a repeat prescribing policy within each PCN practice. Manage 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.
  • 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 relevant practice team.
  • Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
  • 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 seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on each practices computer system, auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance, providing newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.
  • Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
  • Work with the general practice teams to ensure the practices are 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 general public.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  Clinical

  • See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. Respiratory, Cardiovascular and Diabetes). 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).
  • Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.
  • Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacist, nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
  • Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacists, nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other network 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.
  • 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.
  • Produce and implement a repeat prescribing policy within each PCN practice. Manage 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.
  • 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 relevant practice team.
  • Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
  • 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 seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on each practices computer system, auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance, providing newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.
  • Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
  • Work with the general practice teams to ensure the practices are 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 general public.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Qualified member of the GPhC and hold at least an undergraduate degree in pharmacy.

  Experience

  Essential

  • Explain your understanding of the PCN Clinical Pharmacist role and how it fits into the needs of primary care prescribing.

  Skills and Abilities

  Essential

  • Demonstrate you have completed the CPPE Primary Care Education Pathway or are you working towards it.

  Qualification

  Essential

  • Demonstrate you have qualified as an independent prescriber or working towards qualification.

  Skills and Abilities

  Essential

  • Demonstrate whether you would be interested in completing the advanced clinical pharmacist pathway.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Qualified member of the GPhC and hold at least an undergraduate degree in pharmacy.

  Experience

  Essential

  • Explain your understanding of the PCN Clinical Pharmacist role and how it fits into the needs of primary care prescribing.

  Skills and Abilities

  Essential

  • Demonstrate you have completed the CPPE Primary Care Education Pathway or are you working towards it.

  Qualification

  Essential

  • Demonstrate you have qualified as an independent prescriber or working towards qualification.

  Skills and Abilities

  Essential

  • Demonstrate whether you would be interested in completing the advanced clinical pharmacist pathway.

  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.

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

  Address

  Island Health

  145 East Ferry Road

  London

  E14 3BQ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.gpcaregroup.org/section/387/Home (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  Tower Hamlets GP Care Group

  Address

  Island Health

  145 East Ferry Road

  London

  E14 3BQ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.gpcaregroup.org/section/387/Home (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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