We are looking for Clinical Pharmacists to work for our remote service SPC Connect.

The Pharmacist will support with meds management, prescriptions and medication reviews. They will perform video and telephone medication reviews.

Locations: Remote Working All Kit Provided
Hours to suit your lifestyle
Minimum of 2, 4-hour sessions per week

Main Duties:

Management of medicines at discharge from hospital.
Risk Stratification
Repeat Prescribing
Telephone and patient facing medicines support
Triaging patients.
Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients in their home.
Long Term Conditions
Service Development
Public Health
Information Management
Medicine quality Improvements
Medicines Safety
QoF Area Leads - working with the Lead GP
Medicine Management Leads - working with the lead GP
Prescribing Process Leads

About Us:

Sussex Primary Care came about in response to a need from GP Partners in local practices who were seeking a different future. In 2019 we took on our first two practices and now have 7 practices with a combined list of over 40,000 patients.

We are a learning organisation that listens to our team of staff, patients and partners to guide our future. At the heart of our vision are our patients and their needs. We are excited about our journey in delivering outstanding and innovative primary care.

Job Summary:

Management of medicines at discharge from hospital.

Ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).

Risk Stratification:

Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both.

Repeat Prescribing:

Working with our pharmacy technicians to set up repeats and monitor existing repeat scripts

Telephone and patient facing medicines support:

Triaging patients.

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients with multi-morbidity and polypharmacy and implement prescribing changes (within your remit) and order relevant monitoring tests as well as producing recommendations for the GP on prescribing and monitoring.

Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients in their home.

Manage vulnerable housebound patients under the guidance of the lead GP for patients at risk of hospital admission and harm from poor use of medicines. Implement prescribing changes (within your remit) and ordering of monitoring tests. Produce recommendations for the GP on prescribing and monitoring.

Long Term Conditions:

See patients alone in video clinics, with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma). To do chronic disease reviews. Adjust, stop and start initiate medications as and when appropriate. To adjust other medication as and when needed as an independent prescriber.

Service Development:

Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advise on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).

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

Public Health:

To contribute to public health campaigns, including immunisation programmes, stop smoking and sexual health.

Information Management:

Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.

Medicine quality Improvements:

Undertake simple 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.

QoF Area Leads - working with the Lead GP:

Work with the team to ensure that we reach our QoF targets and achieve target payments.

Medicine Management Leads - working with the lead GP:

Implementing the advice and ensuring that the practice reaches its prescribing targets and achieves the target payments.

Prescribing Process Leads:

To take a lead on the processes used in the practice to prescribe and issue medication. To ensure that processes (including Emis) are safe and efficient.

Person Specification

Essential

To operate with a high level of autonomy, professionalism, passion and dedication

Skills and Abilities

Essential

Well developed verbal and non-verbal interpersonal / communication and persuasion skills
IT literate and advanced working knowledge of all MS office packages
Demonstrates understanding of legal, governance and ethical frameworks within which pharmacists in primary/secondary work.
Excellent clinical knowledge and ability to apply to practice.
Understanding of the data protection act, GDPR and patient confidentiality, clinical governance, information governance and Caldicott requirements
Sound knowledge of medicines legislation and the vision for the development of pharmacist roles within primary care

Desirable

Experience of communication, negotiating and influencing with a wide range of stake holders
Experience of SystemOne & EMIS practice IT systems Ability to critically analyse complex information and evidence and communicate the findings clearly in simple terms
Ability to constructively challenge the views and practices of clinicians and managers
Ability to summarise and present information in relevant concise and proactive way
Experience of a patient focused role and consultation skills

Qualifications

Essential

Masters degree in pharmacy (or pre-2000 equivalent)
Member, in good standing, of General Pharmaceutical Council
GPhC Independent Prescribing Qualification or Working towards conversion of Supplementary Prescribing Qualification to Independent Prescribing Qualification
Extensive knowledge of medicines optimization or clinical pharmacist role, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training
Prescribing qualification

Desirable

Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
Clinical Pharmacist training

Attitudes

Essential

Ability to work both as a team member and independently
Able to work calmly under pressure and to deadlines
Conscientious with Strong attention to detail
Self-starter and proactive approach
Able to take responsibility for own clinical/prescribing decisions and carry commensurate level of clinical risk

Desirable

Flexible to work in line with the needs of the service, to achieve a particular task
Ability to handle a variety of different workstreams at one time and prioritise accordingly
Embrace change as an opportunity to learn and develop

Experience

Essential

Current NHS experience
Good understanding of primary care

Desirable

Evidence of experience in using independent prescribing or clinical pharmacist skills
Understanding of the current national policies impacting on medicines optimisation
services
Experience of undertaking clinical reviews
Experience of establishing new services in an NHS setting

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and assuch 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.

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