Job Description
Job summary
We are looking for a qualified Pharmacist to enhance our Pharmacy team, we have over 15000 patients over 2 sites. We currently have 2 GP Partners, 5 Salaried GPs, 2 Advanced Clinical Practitioners, 4 practice nurses, 6 healthcare assistants and a large admin team. We also have a number of PCN staff.
Main duties of the job
The main duties will be:
Seeing or phoning patients for medication reviews
Sorting out medication queries
help with our Opiate reduction programme
Participate with Prescribing quality scheme
To advise on alternative medication for out of stock items
Holding blood pressure clinics
Audits
Medication alerts
CQC searches for safe medication use
Job description
Working in accordance with the GPhC Code of Conduct, the post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines use and optimisation. The post-holder will deliver a high quality, clinical pharmacy service to patients in general practice ensuring the safe, clinically effective, and cost-efficient use of drugs, using expertise in independent prescribing to support improved access to medicines.
The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy. The post holder will provide primary 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, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patient in the GP practice.
The post holder will provide some guidance on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services. The post holder will help ensure 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.
The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice. The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber.