Job description

Job responsibilities

Roles and responsibilities:

• Run daily telephone triage clinics and call in patients for assessment and management where clinically indicated. If prescriber, sign their own prescriptions.
• Provide practice based review clinics to those with LTCs or complex health needs including vulnerable people
• Review and triage incoming pathology results, contacting patients by phone where indicated
• Review and action incoming hospital correspondence, particularly with regards to medicine reconciliation or initiation, liaising with local pharmacies and CCG pharmacist (where indicated) to improve patient outcomes
• Lead practice repeat prescription services and deal with queries from reception staff and patients. If a prescriber, then sign the majority of repeat prescriptions
• To be participate in home visits to patient with acute and chronic issues
• To participate in immunisation initiatives including but not limited to influenza, shingles and pneumococcal disease
• To participate in practice smoking cessation services
• To be involved in practice administrative tasks such as completing reports
• To provide remote clinical pharmacist access to other local AT Medics practices when required
• Liaise with community care colleagues to ensure medicines reconciliation
• Respond to Frailty requirements (as defined by BMA) and ensure patients needs are met appropriately,
• Provide clinical medicines advice to care homes and domiciliary care teams
• To follow up identified patient groups, targeting better patient adherence with treatment to improve outcomes
• Advising patients of the adverse side effect of medication and potential interaction with other medication/treatments
• Compliment and co-ordinate practice based public health campaigns with the local community pharmacy public health campaigns
• Present to Patient groups any changes to prescribing in line with NICE, best practice or in response to prescribing alerts

In return we offer

• Our enhanced progressive career framework for physician associates including leadership roles
• Support to gain Independent Prescribing qualification
• Market leading salary scales
• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays pro rata
• An opportunity to significantly develop your existing skillset
• In-house CPD training sessions tailored to meet your needs
• Sector Leading Training
• Access to our bespoke learning management system
• Annual formative clinical assessments to support competency development
• 1 week paid CPD/study leave pro rata per year
• Varied opportunities for career development within our wider organisation
• A range of other exciting employee benefits such as car benefit scheme, cycle to work schemes, travel season ticket loans, discount cards and employee wellbeing services.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• GPhC registered Pharmacist

Experience

Essential

• A can do attitude with a real desire to improve patient care and be self-motivated
• Ability to work well as part of a team
• Excellent communication skills both verbally and written and with a good team ethic
• Willingness and ability to develop clinically

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 .

Employer details

Employer name

Operose Health

Address

299 Thornton Road

Croydon

CR0 3EW