Pharmacist

Gnosall Health Centre

The closing date is 30 June 2024

Job summary

The post holder will work as part of a multi-site, multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role. The post holder will take responsibility for managing targeted areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex poly-pharmacy.

The post holder will provide support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, provide expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patient in the GP practice (s).

Main duties of the job

Repeat prescribing review Practice repeat prescribing policies. Oversee the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions, reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review. Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required. Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing and address public health and social needs of patients through clinical medication review. This would be a level 3 medication review looking at the patients full clinical condition e.g. blood monitoring, interface care arrangements, social isolation. Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge. Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues. Interface with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals including the promotion of the repeat dispensing service.

Manage Practice formularies to improve the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of prescribing. Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety.

About us

Gnosall Surgery is part of a three practice Primary Care Network and we are looking for a Pharmacist to join our team. The role will be part of the ARRS scheme for our network and the successful applicant will undertake their hours predominantly at Gnosall Surgery. We are a rural practice serving a population of 8300 patients and have a good rating for CQC and a wide variety of staff groups who work closely together to provide an excellent level of service to our patients and support each other on a daily basis.

We are situated in a purpose built Health centre with a Pharmacy and Dentist attached. We have excellent parking facilities.

Date posted

14 February 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

A2299-24-0000

Job locations

Brookhouse Road

Stafford

Staffordshire

ST20 0GP

Job description

Job responsibilities

Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing and address public health and social needs of patients through clinical medication review. This would be a level 3 medication review looking at the patients full clinical condition e.g. blood monitoring, interface care arrangements, social isolation.

Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues.

Interface with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals including the promotion of the repeat dispensing service.

Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates.

Manage patients, Practice staff and other health care professionals medicine queries.

Increase quality and safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA cycles.

Manage Practice formularies to improve the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of prescribing.

Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety.

Work with primary care professionals and patients to implement NICE and other evidence based guidelines.

Be involved in clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics, high risk drug monitoring.

Contribute to patient facing multi-morbidity long term condition reviews and multi-disciplinary reviews.

Review daily Pathology results for patients on known medicines (if required)

Act as a source of medicines information for all of the Practice team and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives if stock issues). Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.

Undertake minor ailments triage: dealing with minor ailments and triaging patients appropriately working within a scope of practice and limits of competence. Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals, where appropriate.

Undertake Patient facing domiciliary and care home medication reviews and produce recommendations for the nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.

The jobholder may be required at any time to undertake any work up to and/or at a level consistent with existing responsibilities. These tasks may be at any location within the boundaries of South Staffordshire GP Network.