Needs to be able to start within the month.

Job Summary:

Responsible for support to the practice with medication reviews, queries and prescribing safety.

Responsible for supporting the partners in implementing effective medicine management within the practice. Supporting the pharmacy team to identify areas for improvement and then initiate and manage the changes.

Clinical Services

********************MUST HAVE EMIS WEB EXPERIENCE************************

Dealing with patient’s medicine and prescription related queries over the phone, in clinic, via letter/email or the practice website (this may include advising and prescribing for minor ailments or clinical areas within competence, acute prescription requests, carrying out medication reviews, lead on medication monitoring, providing medication advice, solving technical prescription problems such as supply problems, NOMAD changes etc.)
Signposting patients to appropriate services and other healthcare professionals (e.g. community pharmacists).
Working closely with GPs to provide medicine related updates and helping with problem solving.
Lead and oversee the high risk medication monitoring with the practice admin and the in-house pharmacy team.
Provide a point of contact for the practice for all medicines-related queries for healthcare professionals as well as patients.
Patient facing clinics are not currently required but if there are areas of specialty that could provide benefits to the practice then the surgery would be open to suggestions.
Follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct.
Oversee the MHRA alerts/CAS alerts, to make sure these are audited, actioned and logged on a spreadsheet.

Prescription Management

Reconciliation of medicines from outpatient and discharge letters – including liaison with hospital, community and primary care colleagues to ensure correct medicines are continued following transfer of care.
To work with the pharmacy team and support GPs and other practice staff to deliver on Medicines Optimisation agenda (Prescribing Quality Scheme), QOF and locally commissioned enhanced services.
To encourage, support and implement adherence to local formulary guidelines and cost-effective prescribing.
Reviewing, issuing and converting acute medicine requests into repeat medicines, where appropriate.
Supporting Community Pharmacists in ensuring NOMAD or batch prescriptions are up to date including confirming any stopped or initiated medications with the patient and community pharmacy team.
Implementing and monitoring a practice’s adherence to a repeat prescription policy.
Supporting the Practice Pharmacy Technician (or prescription clerks) with the management of the repeat prescription processes and other medicines management related duties.

Prescribing responsibilities

To complete an Independent Prescribing course after completion of the CPPE GP Pharmacist Training Pathway.

Audit and Education

Conducting clinical audits as part of the multidisciplinary team.
MHRA alerts/CAS alerts - to run searches when appropriate and review/action.
Answering medicine information enquiries from GPs, other healthcare professionals and patients.
Implementing, in conjunction with the practice team, systems for monitoring medicines use.
Contributing to clinical education of other healthcare professionals.
Providing leadership of quality improvements programmes that involve medicines.
EMIS clinical audits ADHOC

Medicines Management

Contributing to repeat prescribing safety i.e. prompting patients for reviews, blood tests, monitoring etc.
Working with the multidisciplinary team to improve medicines management and safety within the practice including updating, writing and ensuring compliance with practice policies.
To support the Practice Nurse Manager with updating stock lists and ensuring safe and efficient processes are in place for storage, monitoring, record keeping and waste management of all medicines within the practice.
Working with the CCG Medicines Optimisation Team and Practice Team to manage local formularies to improve the choice and cost effectiveness of medicines.
Implementing NICE guidance through audit and feedback, formulary management and educational sessions with the wider primary healthcare team and patients.
To take responsibility of MHRA alerts and updates, notifying staff and patients as appropriate.

Communication

The post-holder should recognise the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

Communicate effectively with other team members
Communicate effectively with patients and carers
Recognise people’s needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly

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.

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 people’s 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, feelings priorities and rights.

Personal/Professional Development:

In addition to maintaining continued education through attendance at any courses and/or study days necessary to ensure that GPhC professional development requirements for CPD are met, the post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the Practice as part of this employment, such training to include:

CPPE general practice pharmacist training pathway and Independent Prescribing qualification must be completed once employed at the surgery. You will be supported by an experienced GP mentor and given the necessary study days required.
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 skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work.

Quality:

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.
Contribute to the effectiveness of the team by reflecting on own and team activities and making suggestions on ways to improve and enhance the team’s performance.
Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patient’s needs.
Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

Salary £44973.33 PA based on a WTE (37.5)

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent
Part-time hours: 37.5 per week

Salary: From £23.00 per hour

Schedule:

Monday to Friday

Experience:

GP Pharmacist: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Sussex, TN34 1BA

Reference ID: PHARMASTAT01

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