NhsJobs Lincoln

Job Purpose -

• Providing support to general practice

colleagues with regards to prescription and medication queries.

• Prescribing

to patients, providing advice on appropriate dosing and routes of

administration, addressing both public and social care needs of patients in the

GP practice.

• Providing

clinical leadership on medicines optimisation, quality improvement and manage

some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.

• Ensuring 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.

Your duties and responsibilities -

• Seeing (where appropriate) patients with

single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required

(e.g. hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia, asthma/COPD etc.)

• Reviewing

the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an

opportunity to support patients with their medicines ensuring they are getting

best use from their prescriptions

• Undertaking

clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the Senior

Clinical Pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.

• Signposting

and referral of patients to community pharmacy and referral to other healthcare

professionals where appropriate

• Supporting

the planning and organisation of cross sector hypertension case finding

clinics.

• Answering

relevant medicinerelated enquiries from GPs, other

practice colleagues, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and

patients with queries about medicines

• Providing

specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general

public.

• Managing

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.

• Providing

pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services

that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient

information leaflets)

• Undertaking

clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feeding back the

results and implementing changes in conjunction with the practice team.

• Providing

education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines

optimisation.

• Providing

longitudinal care by maintaining accurate documentation. Ensuring interventions

are coded appropriately.

• Supporting

practices to achieve the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) indicators.

• Checking

patients' prescriptions for accuracy and safety, ensuring no drugs are

contraindicated with one another.

• Ensuring

legal compliance in the pharmacy, reviewing labels, doses and procedures as

required.

• Organising

and directing workflow, verifying the preparation and labelling of

pharmaceuticals and verifying order entries, charges and inspections.

• Securing

inventories-controlled drugs to maintain compliance with regulations.

• Communicating

effectively with doctors about prescriptions.

• Offering

various wellness and health-screening services, such as blood-pressure

monitoring, flu and other vaccine administration, and diabetes screening.

• Ensuring

the correct usage of the Electronic Prescription Service tracker to process

claims and manage this process.

• Providing information to patients on how get the

maximum benefit from the medicines they are prescribed.

Job description

Job Purpose -

• Providing support to general practice

colleagues with regards to prescription and medication queries.

• Prescribing

to patients, providing advice on appropriate dosing and routes of

administration, addressing both public and social care needs of patients in the

GP practice.

• Providing

clinical leadership on medicines optimisation, quality improvement and manage

some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.

• Ensuring 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.

Your duties and responsibilities -

• Seeing (where appropriate) patients with

single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required

(e.g. hypertension, hypercholesterolaemia, asthma/COPD etc.)

• Reviewing

the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an

opportunity to support patients with their medicines ensuring they are getting

best use from their prescriptions

• Undertaking

clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the Senior

Clinical Pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.

• Signposting

and referral of patients to community pharmacy and referral to other healthcare

professionals where appropriate

• Supporting

the planning and organisation of cross sector hypertension case finding

clinics.

• Answering

relevant medicinerelated enquiries from GPs, other

practice colleagues, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and

patients with queries about medicines

• Providing

specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general

public.

• Managing

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.

• Providing

pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services

that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient

information leaflets)

• Undertaking

clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feeding back the

results and implementing changes in conjunction with the practice team.

• Providing

education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines

optimisation.

• Providing

longitudinal care by maintaining accurate documentation. Ensuring interventions

are coded appropriately.

• Supporting

practices to achieve the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF) indicators.

• Checking

patients' prescriptions for accuracy and safety, ensuring no drugs are

contraindicated with one another.

• Ensuring

legal compliance in the pharmacy, reviewing labels, doses and procedures as

required.

• Organising

and directing workflow, verifying the preparation and labelling of

pharmaceuticals and verifying order entries, charges and inspections.

• Securing

inventories-controlled drugs to maintain compliance with regulations.

• Communicating

effectively with doctors about prescriptions.

• Offering

various wellness and health-screening services, such as blood-pressure

monitoring, flu and other vaccine administration, and diabetes screening.

• Ensuring

the correct usage of the Electronic Prescription Service tracker to process

claims and manage this process.

• Providing information to patients on how get the

maximum benefit from the medicines they are prescribed.

What is the salary for this pharmacist role in Lincoln?

The advertised salary for this pharmacist role at Lincolnshire Co-op is £53000.00 to £56000.00 p.a.. Typical pharmacist pay in Lincoln varies by experience, sector (NHS versus community), and employer; see the PharmSee UK pharmacy salary guide for benchmarks.

How many pharmacy jobs are currently open in Lincoln?

PharmSee is currently tracking 9 active pharmacy vacancies in Lincoln across 11 major UK chains and NHS sources. Browse every open Lincoln pharmacy role on PharmSee's jobs search.

How do I apply for this role?

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