Practice Based Pharmacist

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	17 Tachwedd 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	Negotiable
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	30 Tachwedd 2025
Lleoliad:	Burntwood, WS7 0AQ
Cwmni:	NHS Jobs
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	A0239-25-0021

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Darwin Medical Practice Post Title Grade Date General Practice Based Pharmacist TBC Nov 2025 Reporting Relationships Responsible to: Clinical Services Manager Responsible For: N/A About Darwin Medical Practice Darwin Medical Practiceprovides services from St Chads Health Centre, Dimbles Lane in Lichfield, Greenwood Health Centre, Burntwood and 29-31 High Street, Chasetown, Burntwood. Our aim is to deliver a high quality service which will benefit our patients. With a large team working together we will maintain and improve the quality of care with the sharing of expertise and skills, this will enable patients to have more choice. We have a coordinated approach, developing our teams to support patients with long term and complex conditions. We value our relationship with our patients and have an active Patient Participation Group to help us deliver the best service possible. Let us help patients live a full and active life. Teams The following teams make up Darwin Medical Practice Business support Clinical staff including GPs and Partners Secretaries Management Care Navigators Admin 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, 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 and 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-judgemental and respects their circumstances, feelings, priorities and rights. Personal/Professional Development: The post-holder will participate in any training programme implemented by the practice 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 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 teams performance. Work effectively with individuals in other agencies to meet patients needs. Effectively manage own time, workload and resources. 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 peoples needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly. Contribution to the Implementation of Services: The post-holder will: Apply practice policies, standards and guidance. Discuss with other members of the team how the policies, standards and guidelines will affect own work. Participate in audit where appropriate. Job Purpose Provide expertise in clinical medicines review and address public health and social needs of patients in GP practices Reduce inappropriate polypharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review 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 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 and health care professionals medicine queries Increase quality and safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audits 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 professional and patients to implement NICE and other evidence-based guidelines Run clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics Contribute to multimorbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews Provide medicines information and training to practice healthcare professionals and admin staff Review daily pathology results for patients on known medicines Act as a source of medicines information for all the practice team and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives such as around out of stocks) Support and train, as appropriate, the practice pharmacy technician. Principal Accountabilities 1. Working within the practice-based team to undertake medication reviews particularly in high risk groups such as: Frail elderly Polypharmacy Renal impairment Hepatic impairment Substance misuse Patients on high risk medications STOPP/START identified patient Revolving door hospital admissions 2. Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all prescribers within the practice 3. Lead on where changes in evidence require changes in prescribing across patient population e.g. where a drug is withdrawn, or indications change 4. Liaise with colleagues in community pharmacy to align support for medicines adhere such as MUR and NMS 5. Support improvements in clinical care through practice-based audit and implementing change 6. Prescribing advice to prescribers in practice e.g. temporary non availability drugs 7. Ensure patient safety when they are transferred between care providers through reconciliation of prescribed medicines The Practice is open from 8.00am until 6.30pm, with regular extended hours surgeries. It is expected that all staff will work on a rota basis, according to the needs of the service. The contents of this job description and person specification will be reviewed on an annual basis in line with the Practice training and development review policy.