Job description

Job responsibilities

• Clinical medication reviews for patients with single or multiple long term conditions where medicines optimization is required

  To work on DES related PCN which are relavant to pharmacy.

• To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals or intermediate care and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post-discharge and to reduce risk of readmission.

• To manage repeat prescription requests, resolving queries where possible within scope of practice. To ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.

• Implement changes to medicines in line with MHRA alerts, product withdrawal or shortage and other local or national guidance

• To maintain full and complete records of all patient contacts using appropriate clinical templates and coding

• To undertake a proactive role in audit and quality improvement, implementing recommendations where appropriate.

• Provide independent information to patients with regard to medicines and prescribing changes, initiating further support from other healthcare professionals where appropriate

• Participate in review and setting of policies relating to medicines management and prescribing and help ensure practices prescribe in accordance with local guidelines and formulary

• To identify areas of clinical risk at network level and make recommendations to support the introduction of new working practices that will optimise the quality of prescribing and make more efficient use of network resources.

• To maintain own clinical and professional competence and be responsible for own continuous professional development

• Work with practices to ensure full compliance with Care Quality Commission standards for safe and effective care

  Working Relationships:

  • Patients and carers where appropriate

  • GPs, nurses and other practice staff including practice pharmacists

  • GP prescribing leads

  • CCG pharmacists and medicines management team

  • Secondary Care and interface Pharmacists

  • Community Nurses and other allied health professionals

  • Community Pharmacists and support staff

  • Encourage supporting staff to collaborate through sharing information and

    intelligence across different activities

    Health & Safety

    The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:

  • Using personal security systems within the workplace, according to practice guidelines

  • Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks

  • Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills

  • Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy

    and safe way and free from hazards

  • Reporting potential risks identified

    Equality and Diversity:

    The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

    • Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with Practice procedures and policies, and current legislation

    • Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues

    • Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non- judgmental and respects their circumstances, feeling priorities and rights.

  Personal/Professional Development:

  The post-holder will participate in any training program implemented by the practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

  • Participation in an annual individual performance review, including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional development

  • Taking responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skill and activities to others who are undertaking similar work

  • Training may need to be undertaken outside of normal practice hours, and off site.

    Quality and Governance:

    The post-holder will strive to maintain quality within the practice, and will:

  • Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk

  • Assess own performance and take accountability for own actions, either directly or under supervision.

  • Work effectively with individuals in other agencies

  • Effectively manage own time, workload and resources

    Confidentiality:

  • In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately

  • In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential

  • Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data

    This job description is not intended to be a complete list of duties and responsibilities, but is a guide for information to the role. The job description will be periodically reviewed in light of the developing work requirements. The post-holder will be expected to contribute towards that revision.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Must have completed the 18-month CPPE Pathway or in the process of achieving it.
• Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Completion of an undergraduate degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Clinical Diploma.
• Previous working experience in General Practice.
• Demonstrates and understanding of, and confirms to, relevant standards of practice.
• Follows professional and organizational policies/procedures relating to performance management.

Desirable

• May hold or be working towards an independent prescribing qualification

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

St. Andrew's House Medical Centre

Address

2 Waterloo Road

Stalybridge

SK15 2AU