Job summary
Tramways Medical Centrewould like you to join our team as aClinical Pharmacist(20 hours per week) to provide safe, quality, pharmacy services in primary care, working with a wide range of colleagues within the Practice. You will have the opportunity to develop and deliver safe, effective, and efficient systems for repeat prescribing, medicines optimisation, reducing medicines waste and maximising patient outcomes. In this role you have the potential to help manage general practice workload and significantly improve quality of care and safety for patients
Main duties of the job
Provide
expertise in clinical medicines review and address public health and social
needs of patients in Hillsborough Primary Care Network.
The post holder will work as part of a
multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role. The post holder will take
responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and
undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with
complex polypharmacy.
The post holder will provide primary
support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication
queries. They will help support the repeat prescriptions system, deal with
acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care
and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines
advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patient in the GP practice
(s).
The post holder will provide clinical
leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some
aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
The post holder will ensure that the
practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill
mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help
manage workload. The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and
operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver
excellent service within general practice.
About us
Tramways Medical Centre is a forward thinking Practice Covering approx. 9,000 patients in the S6 areas of Sheffield. Our aim is to create a diverse team that support one another, you will work closely with the existing clinical teams to deliver excellent patient care working innovatively and collaboratively with colleagues.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility
Patient facing Long-term condition clinics
See
(where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where
medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma). Review the ongoing
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
Patient facing Clinical
Medication Review
Undertake
clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the
nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring
Patient facing care home
medication reviews
Undertake
clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the
community nurses or GPs on 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
community nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Attend and refer
patients to multidisciplinary case conferences
Management of
common/minor/self-limiting ailments
Signposting
to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals
where appropriate
Patient facing medicines
support
Provide
patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about
their medicines in the practice
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 re-admissions through audit and individual patient reviews.
Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to
high-risk 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 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)
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
Produce
and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy. 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
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 in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the
results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team
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 seeing and 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 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
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- PERSON SPECIFICATION
- CRITERIA
- ESSENTIAL
- DESIRABLE
- Qualifications
- Degree in Pharmacy, and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS).
- Member of or working towards (through foundation) RPS Faculty membership Hold or be working towards a prescribing qualification.
- ExperienceMinimum of 2 years post graduate experience in pharmacy, as demonstrated within a practice portfolio.Specialist knowledge of medicines management systems and processes.
- Proficient with SystmOne
- Skills
- Ability to use own initiative.
- Ability to work in team or on own.
- Be able to demonstrate tact and diplomacy when working with others.
- Accurate and detail-oriented.Good communications skills.
- Able to cope with stressful situations.
- Knowledge
- Has an awareness of the breadth of common acute and long term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice.
- Specialist knowledge of medicines management systems and processes.Demonstrate specialist knowledge in more than one field.
- OtherMust be able to observe code of confidentiality
- Car driver.
- Flexible ability to work additional hours at short notice occasionally and across all four Hillsborough sites within the West of Sheffield.
Experience
Essential
Desirable
- Experience of working in primary care
- Experience of working in a GP practice
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
Tramways Medical Centre
Address
54 Holme Lane
Hillsborough
Sheffield
S6 4JQ