Clinical Pharmacist for General Practice in Greenford
Location
Elm Trees Surgery, 2A Horsenden Lane North, Greenford, UB6 0PA
Job Type
Full Time, Permanent
Salary
£50,000 to £60,000 a year
Closing Date
16/10/2024
Job Description
We are seeking to recruit a full-time Clinical Pharmacist to join our friendly team in Greenford.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is a pharmacist who:
- Acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacists in general practice.
- Will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role.
- Will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the network.
- Contribute to improving the health of patients and undertake structured medication reviews.
- The successful candidate must show the ability to work independently and, in a team, to improve patient care, release GP time and medicines optimisation
About us
- Located in Greenford.
- SystmOne Practice.
- Consistent high QoF achievements.
- Elm Trees Surgery is a friendly, well organised and efficient Practice, with a list size of 8,100 and growing.
- The Practice clinical team has 4 GPs, 1 Practice Nurse, 1 Pharmacy Technician and 2 Health Care Assistants.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Duties and Responsibilities
1. Population Coverage
A key drive of change is to ensure the duties and responsibilities are demonstrable across all eleven practices.
2. NGP Principles and Expected Outcomes
Principles
- Improvement of quality
- Reducing waste
- Releasing GP and practice time
Expected Outcomes
- Working across a multidisciplinary team to deliver rigorous and high quality patient experience and care.
- Implementing ways of working both in practices and with patients to reduce medication wastage.
- Working across the practices to improving efficiency and contributing to releasing time across practices.
3. Manage patients holistically
Where patients have more than one condition; reviewing co-morbidities in the same appointment and updating QOF and Ealing Standard as appropriate. Referring to other members of the Primary Health Care team and Secondary Care as necessary.
4. Structured Medication Reviews
Undertake structured medication reviews with patients with multi-morbidity and polypharmacy and implement own prescribing changes (as an independent prescriber) and order relevant monitoring tests. Provide a telephone support for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.
5. Pathology
Request and manage the results for the cohort of patients under your care in a safe and timely way.
6. Medicines safety and quality improvement
Identify and provide leadership on areas of prescribing requiring improvement. Conduct own audits and improvement projects and work with colleagues. Present results and provide leadership on suggested change. Demonstrate continuous QI activity focused upon prescribing safety as specified in the QOF guidance. This work for example might include the PINCER tool. Contribute to national and local research initiatives
7. Home based patients
Where these patients fall into the cohort be prepared to visit and deliver their care in the home setting.
8. Service development
Develop and manage new services that are built around new medicines or NICE guidance, where new medicine/recommendations allow the development of a new care pathway.
9. Care Quality Commission
Provide leadership to the practice manager and GPs to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
10. Meetings
Attend MDT, Network, Practice, ICB and Federation meetings as required. Being prepared to lead on Network pharmacy issues as appropriate.
11. Oversight Network Pharmacy issues
In addition to a clinical specialism this role involves contributing to oversight of prescribing across all Practices and to being able to prepare and present reports as required.
12. Relationships
To foster and maintain good relationships between, within and outside the Practices involved in the network.
13. Population and Public Health
To devise and manage population and public health campaigns to run within the network. To provide specialist knowledge on immunisation.
14. Cost saving programmes
Make recommendations for, and manage pharmacy technicians to, make changes to medicines (switches) designed to save on medicine costs where a medicine or product with lower acquisition cost is now available.
15. Medicine information to practice staff and patients
Answer all medicine related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff and patients with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.
16. Flexibility
To understand that this is a new and evolving role which may change with the needs of the Network. To be willing to change and the facilitate change in others and the system to promote quality care.
17. Training
Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation. Provide training to visiting medical, nursing and other healthcare students where appropriate.
19. Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations
Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economy’s RAG list for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs). Liaise directly with hospital colleagues where prescribing needs to be returned to specialists. Assist practices in setting and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system.
Suggest and develop computer decision support tools to help remind prescribers about the agreed formulary choice and local recommendations. Auditing practices compliance against NICEs technology assessment guidance. Provide newsletters on important prescribing messages to improve prescribers knowledge and work with the team to develop and implement other techniques known to influence implementation of evidence; such as audit and feedback.
20. Medicines safety
Horizon scan to identify national and local policy and guidance that affects patient safety through the use of medicines, including MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and emerging evidence form clinical trials. Manage the process of implementing changes to medicines and guidance for practitioners.
21. Audit and research
Rigorously document standards and of care in The Network demonstrating outcomes from intervention. Publishing on behalf of The Network as appropriate and participating on NIHR approved studies as agreed by The Network’s Board.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.
- Demonstrates specialist knowledge of Diabetes.
- Appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices.
- Appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)
- Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
- Good IT skills
- Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
- Good problem solving skills and able to prioritise actions
- Able to identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
- Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
- Produce timely and informative reports
- Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
- Work effectively, independently and as a team member
- Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision
- Meets DBS reference standards and has a clear criminal record, in line with the law on spent convictions
- Self-motivated
- Safeguarding and other mandatory training
- Access to own transport and ability to travel across the locality on a regular basis, including to visit people in their own homes
- Immunisation status
Desirable
- Membership Primary Care Pharmacy Association (PCPA)
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Clinical diploma
- Independent prescriber
- Post graduate qualification (MSc preferred)
- Adaptable
Qualifications
Essential
- Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Evidence working towards independent prescriber qualification
Desirable
- Membership Primary Care Pharmacy Association (PCPA)
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Clinical diploma
- Post graduate qualification (MSc preferred)
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
How to Apply
If you would like to apply for this post, please email your CV and covering letter to the Assistant Practice Manager: Phyo Aung at [email protected]