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Job Description Practice

Pharmacist

Title: Practice Pharmacist

Responsible

(clinically) to: GP

Responsible

(administratively) to: Practice Manager

Job

Summary

The

main purpose of the role is to deliver clinical pharmacy support to Wetmore

Road Surgery through management and interventions of your own patient caseload.

You will work as part of the general practice team to resolve day-to-day

medicine issues and deliver direct patient care. This includes managing

long-term conditions, specific advice for those on multiple medications and

better access to health checks.

Key Responsibilities

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.

Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful

prescribing through clinical medication review

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).

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.

Update

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 to the GP

Undertake

Clinical Medication Reviews and Structured Medication Reviews with patients,

implement required actions or produce recommendations for the GP on prescribing

and monitoring as appropriate.

Work

with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and

administration.

Contribute

pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services

that have medicinal components (e.g. advise on treatment pathways)

Work

with the Practice Manager and GPs to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC

standards where medicines are involved. Undertake risk assessment and

management and ensure compliance with medicines legislation.

To

contribute to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, and adult

immunisation programmes.

Answers

all medicinerelated

enquiries from GPs, other practice staff and patients with queries about

medicines.

Analyse,

interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support

decision making.

Undertake

simple audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results

and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.

Provide

education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines

optimisation.

Monitor

practice prescribing against the GMMMG 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).

Auditing

practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance.

Provide

newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.

Implement

changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other

local and national guidance.

Support

the practice in adopting local and national medication safety strategies such

as PINCER.

Communication

Demonstrate

sensitive communication styles to ensure patients are fully informed and

consent to treatment.

Communicate

effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative

methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding,

cultural background and preferred ways of communicating.

Anticipate

barriers to communication and take action to improve communication.

Estimate

and maintain effective communication with individuals and groups within the

practice environment and with external stakeholders.

Act

as an advocate when representing patients and colleagues.

Delivering a Quality

Service

Recognise

and work within own competence and professional code of conduct

Produce

accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation,

consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.

Prioritise,

organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes

quality.

Deliver

care according to NICE guidelines and evidence-based care.

Assess

effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and

formal evaluation.

Participate

in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the

practice.

Utilise

the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and

team, implementing improvements where required.

Collaborate

on improving the quality of healthcare in partnership with other clinical

teams, responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate.

Evaluate

the patients response to healthcare provision and the effectiveness of care.

Support

and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation.

Participate

in the management and review of patient complaints, and identify learning from

clinical incidents and near-miss events using a structured framework (eg

root-cause analysis).

Assess

the impact of policy implementation on care delivery.

Understand

and apply legal policy that supports the identification of vulnerable and

abused children and adults, being aware of statutory child/vulnerable adult

health procedures and local guidance.

Leadership Personal and People

Development

Take

responsibility for own development, learning and performance including

participating in clinical supervision and acting as a positive role model

Support

the development of others in order to maximise potential

Actively

promote the workplace as a learning environment, encouraging everyone to learn

from each other and from external good practice

Participate

in planning and implementing changes within the area of care and

responsibility, specifically, community care, learning disabilities and

dementia care.

Contribute

and participate in the development of local guidelines, protocols and standards

Ensure

awareness of sources of support and guidance (eg PALS), and provide information

in an acceptable format to all patients, recognising any difficulties and

referring where appropriate

Team Working

Understand

own role and scope, and identify how this may develop over time.

Work

as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others and exploring

the mechanisms to develop new ways of working.

Delegate

clearly and appropriately, adopting the principles of safe practice and

assessing competence.

Ensure

clear referral mechanisms are in place to meet patient needs.

Prioritise

own workload and ensure effective time-management strategies are embedded

within the culture of the team.

Work

effectively with others to clearly define values, direction and policies

impacting upon care delivery.

Participate

in team activities that create opportunities to improve patient care.

Participate

in and support local projects as agreed with the practice management team.

Management of Risk

Manage

and assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures

are in place to protect staff and patients.

Monitor

work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and free from hazards and

conform to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and

guidelines.

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What is the salary for this clinical pharmacist role in Burton-on-trent?

The advertised salary for this clinical pharmacist role at Wetmore Road Surgery is Negotiable (per hour). Typical clinical pharmacist pay in Burton-on-trent varies by experience, sector (NHS versus community), and employer; see the PharmSee UK pharmacy salary guide for benchmarks.

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