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Job Summary

The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team

in a patient-facing role.

Proactively manage patients with co-morbidities in the area of

chronic disease management within the practice.

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 practices.

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 role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and

operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver

excellent service within general practice.

Your normal hours of work will be between 8.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. Monday to Saturday.

Individual

Responsibilities

The post holder

is expected to:

Adhere to organisation policies and procedures

and relevant legislation including the requirements of any professional bodies.

Maintain satisfactory personal performances and professional

standards and to achieve agreed objectives for their role.

Attend mandatory training as identified by the

organisation.

Participate in a Performance Appraisal Scheme

and to contribute to their own development and the development of any staff they

are responsible for appraising.

Responsible to have professional indemnity

suitable for the range of work undertaking.

Responsible to have authorisation for making

changes to prescribing records within the practice. This may be by written

agreement or GP signature for specific audits.

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

The post holder

is expected to work as a flexible member of the PCN providing support to other

team members when necessary and to take an active role in the development and

embedding of the PCNs culture, values and reputation as providers of high

quality services.

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 recognises 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 programme implemented by the PCN 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.

The PCN have

invested in support from an organisation called Soar Beyond. Soar Beyond

specialise in supporting the creation of teams of pharmacists across a network

of practices. It is supported by a web platform called SMART which assesses

pharmacist competency levels in a range of different disease areas and is

backed up by training programmes to develop the individual where there might be

gaps that the individual and the PCN would like to be filled. Currently the

team is working towards competency in Diabetes management and the PCN is

implementing a pharmacist led Diabetes pathway to be used across practices.

Quality and Governance:

The post-holder

will strive to maintain quality within the PCN, 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, act appropriately and in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Patient facing

Clinical Medication Review

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients with

multimorbidity and poly-pharmacy and implement own prescribing changes (as

an independent prescriber) and order relevant monitoring tests

Patient facing

medicines support

Provide patient

facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their

medicines in the practice.

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 manage these changes without referral to a GP.

Perform a clinical medication review, produce a post discharge

medicines care plan including dose titration and booking of follow up tests

and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients

receive the medicines they need post discharge and working with patients and

community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post

discharge.

Work in partnership with hospital colleagues (e.g. care of the

elderly doctors and clinical pharmacists) to proactively manage patients at

high risk of medicine related problems before they are discharged to ensure

continuity of care.

Patient facing Long term condition

Manage own case load and run long-term condition clinics where

responsible for prescribing as an independent prescriber (if suitably

qualified)

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).

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

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

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