We are looking for a highly motivated and adaptable registeredindependent prescribing pharmacist to join our friendly and enthusiastic teamat Queensway Medical Centre. This is an exciting opportunity to become part of a forward thinking practice working alongside our Medicine Management team, delivering high-quality, patient centred care through effective medicines optimisation, prescribing, and leadership of the practice pharmacy function.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities
Clinical Responsibilities
- Undertake face-to-face and remote consultations
- Perform structured and complex medication reviews
- Independently prescribe medications within competence
- Manage patients with:
- long-term conditions
- polypharmacy
- Deliver clinics where appropriate
- Lead delivery of practice and medicines optimisation priorities
- Support achievement of:
- QOF targets
- Medicine Optimisation contract with local ICB
- PCN IIF / prescribing targets
- Promote cost-effective prescribing and formulary compliance
- Implement:
- NICE guidance
- Undertake audits and service improvement initiatives
Prescribing Safety & Governance
- Manage monitoring systems for high-risk drugs (e.g. DMARDs, anticoagulants)
- Improve prescribing safety and reduce medication-related harm
- Support incident review and learning
Leadership & Team Management
- Provide leadership to the medicines management team
- Support training, supervision, and development
- Design and embed safe systems and workflows
- Lead change and service improvement
Practice & PCN Responsibilities
- Support delivery of:
- enhanced services
- prescribing initiatives
- Provide expert advice to clinicians and staff
See Job description for further information.
About us
The successful candidate joining our dynamic team must be able to demonstrate the following:
Qualifications
- Degree in Pharmacy
- GPhC registration
Experience
- Experience working in General Practice / Primary Care
- Experience in clinical prescribing and medication reviews
Skills
- Strong clinical knowledge of medicines and therapeutics
- Ability to work independently and within MDT
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience leading or managing a team
- Experience with PCN/IIF/QOF/Contracts delivery
- Experience in audit and quality improvement
Personal Attributes
- Proactive and organised
- Able to prioritise workload effectively
- Leadership mindset
- Patient-focused approach
Job responsibilities
MainResponsibilities
Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisationprocess by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reachingreview dates; make necessary changes as an independent prescriber, and ensurepatients are booked in for necessary monitoring tests where required.
Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge,identify and rectify unexplained changes, perform a clinical medication review,including dose titration and booking of follow-up tests and work with patientsand community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they needpost discharge.
Manage patients and health care professionalsmedicine queries, including providing telephone patient advice.
Support the Practice to deliver on QOF andlocally commissioned services.
Run own special interest clinics whereresponsible for prescribing as an independent prescriber for conditions wheremedicines have a large component.
Provide medicines information and training toPractice healthcare professionals and admin staff.
Review daily Pathology results for patients onknown medicines.
Lead as a source of medicines information for allthe practice team and patients (e.g. doses, side effects and out of stockqueries)
Lead on changes in evidence-based prescribing.
Contribute to reductions in medicine relatedhospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the bestoutcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines relatedissues.
Develop and manage new services that are builtaround new medicines or NICE guidance where a new medicine/recommendationsallow the development of a new care pathway (eg DOACs)
Plan, manage, monitor, advise and review generalpharmaceutical care programmes for patients in core areas including long termconditions.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Completion of an undergraduate degree in Pharmacy, and
- registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- Member of or working towards (through foundation) RPS
- Faculty membership
- Extensive post qualification experience working with patients and the multidisciplinary healthcare team.
- In-depth clinical knowledge of medicines and applied therapeutics.
- An appreciation of the nature of General Practice.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- An awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice.
- Previous General Practice or Hospital experience is essential.
- Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and can refer to GPs when appropriate.
- Work effectively independently and as a team member.
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such 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.
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