Pharmacist

The Pharmacist will act autonomously within their professional boundaries to provide support to the GPs and the repeat prescribing team in all medicines management matters and in implementing effective medicine management within the Practice, identifying areas for improvement. The Pharmacist will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team along with fellow Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians and will be in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas. Applicant must be a qualified, registered independent non-medical prescriber (or working towards/intent of gaining independent prescribing qualification). To act as the first point of contact to provide specialist expert knowledge in the use of medicines and for all prescription queries and medication requests from staff and patients. To undertake clinical medication reviews with patients where medicine optimisation is required to reduce waste and promote
self-care. To reconcile discharge summaries and medications for patients being discharged from hospital and/or moving into a care setting. To be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex poly-pharmacy (including but limited to the elderly, care home residents, co-morbidity patients etc.) To implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance. If an independent prescriber, to prescribe, monitor and review medication that is appropriate to patient needs and in accordance with latest evidence-based practice, national and practice protocols and within the scope of qualified practice. To undertake CPPE training as identified. To ensure patient confidentiality, respect, and dignity is adhered to at all times. To produce recommendations for the GPs and other healthcare providers within the Practice on prescribing and monitoring.
To help produce, review and implement a Practice repeat prescribing policies and procedures. To identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines and put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of medicines to these high risk patient groups. To undertake clinical audits of prescribing and feedback the results to implement changes. To assist Partners with the monitoring and management of their prescribing budgets. To audit Practice compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance. To work with the immediate and wider team to ensure that the Practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. To provide lifestyle advice to patients making any necessary referrals within the Practice. To act as a chaperone at the patient or GP request and to annotate the records thereafter. To use Ardens templates to ensure accurate and legible notes of all consultations and treatments are recorded in the patients records. To contribute to local
and national practice targets e.g. QOF, national benchmarking etc. To ensure clinical practice is safe and effective and remains within boundaries of competence, and to acknowledge limitations, embarking upon further training if required. To deliver high quality, compassionate care and treatment to patients with a focus on promoting health, self-care and independence. To take responsibility for own development, learning and performance to ensure own educational commitment is at least sufficient to maintain registration requirements. To participate in the education and training of students of all disciplines and the introduction of all members of the practice staff where appropriate. To undertake statutory and mandatory training as required To act with professionalism and ensuring that ethical conduct is adhered to at all times. To assist with training for new staff. To assist with the gathering of statistics and information when required. To participate and
co-operate with any research projects. To work across different practices on an ad-hoc/when required basis. It will be necessary to attend and contribute to various practice meetings as requested. This job description is neither exhaustive nor exclusive and will be reviewed periodically in conjunction with the post holder. The post holder is required to carry out any duties that may reasonably be requested by the Partners and the Management Team.