Job summary
Due to the recent expansion of our site at Spofforth, TheLeeds Road Practice has an exciting opportunity to expand our pharmacy team. Weare looking for an enthusiastic clinical pharmacist to join our establishedteam of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.
Main duties of the job
Therole of the clinical pharmacist in primary care is changing rapidly. Theprovision of a prescription is the single most common outcome from aconsultation. Medicine monitoring and medicines safety has risen exponentiallyover recent years and combined with the complexity of those living withmultiple long term conditions and frailty means clinical pharmacy is a corepart of general practice.
Primarycare needs to be ambitious to pro-actively help patients stay safe, well andout of hospital as well as ensuring that general practice remains resilient intheir ability to provide the increasing range of services.
About us
The Leeds Road Practice has now been established for 50 years supporting the care of our patients across South Harrogate and the surrounding villages. We support a population of over 15,000 patients and provide care across 3 sites Leeds Road, Spofforth and Pannal. The new role would join our existing team of practice and PCN based pharmacists and technicians as well as our multidisciplinary team of GPs, ACPs (nurse and paramedic), Nurses, HCAs, PAs and phlebotomists. We support three local care homes through our PCN based care home team and provide a dispensing service to our patients living in our rural locality. We are a training practice supporting registrars, medical students and trainee pharmacists.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The following describes the key responsibilities that thepostholder will deliver and / or work towards delivering with supported andon-going development.
- Work as part of a multi-disciplinaryteam in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients usingtheir expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
- Take responsibility for the caremanagement of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medicationreviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially theelderly, people in care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities
- Be a prescriber, or be willing toundertake training to become a prescriber, and work with and alongside thegeneral practice team
- Provide specialist expertise inthe use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health andsocial care needs of patients to help in tackle inequality
- Provide leadership onperson-centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in thepractice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardshipguidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the quality andoutcomes framework (QoF) and enhanced services
- Through structured medicationreviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them,reduce waste and promote self care
- Have a leadership role insupporting further integration of general practice with the wider healthcareteams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patientoutcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practiceworkload
- Develop relationships and workclosely with other pharmacy professionals across neighbouring practices and thewider health and social care system
- Take a central role in theclinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines,liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction ofinappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties), liaisonwith community pharmacists and anticoagulation
- To provide support to pharmacistcolleagues in the clinical aspects of medicine reviews, clinical audit, practiceresearch and governance
- Share outcomes of prescribing,clinical, service and patient outcomes audits within our practice and acrossthe locality in order to drive service and practice improvement
- To respond to and act on MHRAdrug alerts, implementing and communicating any medication changes required asa result
- To monitor medicines andprescribing expenditure at practice level and propose efficiencies to ensuredelivery within budget.
- Be part of a professionalclinical network and have access to appropriate clinical supervision.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Registered Pharmacist with GPhCMasters in Pharmacy degreeDesirable
Independent prescribingMembership Primary Care Pharmacy Association (PCPA)Specialist knowledge through a postgraduate diploma or equivalentOther Requirements
Essential
Successful Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) checkTo maintain confidentiality at all timesFull UK driving licenceExperience
Essential
Compiling protocols and clinical guidelinesAuditDesirable
Post registration experienceRecent primary care or applicable experienceUse of SystmOne or other clinical system