practice clinical pharmacist - Beccles, United Kingdom - Beccles Medical Centre

Description

Job summary

Thepost holder will be a pharmacist, who acts within their professionalboundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of clinicians in generalpractice. In this role they will be supported by a Senior Clinical Pharmacist who will assist the surgerys clinical lead todevelop, manage and mentor them. Theywill be employed by, and based at, Beccles Medical Centre. The successfulapplicant will join a large, established team of Prescribing Pharmacists andPharmacy Technicians.

Thisrole would be suitable for a newly-qualified Pharmacist, who is looking todevelop their knowledge and skills in primary care. Since this role isavailable under the NHSE ARRS scheme, the post-holder would qualify for thePrimary Care Pharmacy Education Pathway (PCPEP), an 18 month education anddevelopment programme provided by Health Education England. More informationabout this scheme is available here (

Thepost holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facingrole. The post holder will be involved with chronic disease management and willundertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients withcomplex polypharmacy. The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staffwith regards to prescription and medication queries.

Main duties of the job

See (whereappropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicineoptimisation is required ( COPD, asthma).Review theon-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and anopportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they getthe best use of their medicines (medicines optimisation). Make appropriaterecommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement.

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and producerecommendations for nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and producerecommendations for nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and producerecommendations for nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring.

Managing caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailmentswhile working within a scope of practice and limits of competence.

Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries andconcerns about their medicines in the practice.

Answer relevant medicine related enquiries from GPs, other practicestaff, other healthcare teams ( community pharmacy) and patients withqueries about medicines.

Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplannedhospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patientreviews.

To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediatecare and into care homes,

About us

Beccles Medical Centre is an established GP surgery, in the Suffolk market-town of Beccles. The Practice has a list size of approximately 20,000 patients. We have 5 Partners, and just over 100 additional staff. We are a GP Training practice and also host other students studying at the nearby University of East Anglia. We work very closely with our PCN. Our mission is to provide high quality healthcare with respect and compassion, ensuring that the patients are at the heart of everything we do

Job responsibilities

Collaborative Working Relationships

Recognises the roles of other colleagueswithin the organisation and their role to patient care.

Demonstrates use of appropriatecommunication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (includingpatients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, otherNHS/private organisations CCGs).

Demonstrates ability to work as a memberof a team.

Is able to recognise personallimitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary.

Actively work toward developing andmaintaining effective working relationships both within and outside thepractice and locality.

Foster and maintain strong links withall services across locality.

Explores the potential for collaborativeworking and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships.

Demonstrates ability to integrategeneral practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams.

Liaises with Primary Care Networkcolleagues and Waveney ICS on prescribing related matters to ensure consistencyof patient care.

Liaises with other stakeholders asneeded for the collective benefit of patients including but not limited to:

Patients

GP, nurses and other practice staff

Other healthcare professionals includingCCG pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, optometrists, dentists, health andsocial care teams and dieticians etc.

Locality / GP prescribing lead Localitymanagers

Community nurses and other allied healthprofessionals Community and hospital pharmacy teams

Hospital staff with responsibilities forprescribing and medicines optimisation

Knowledge, Skills and ExperienceRequired

Completion of an undergraduate degree inpharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.

Have experience and an awareness ofcommon acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in generalpractice.

May hold or be working towards anindependent prescribing qualification, or other post-graduate qualification.

Recognises priorities whenproblem-solving and identifies deviations from normal pattern and is able torefer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.

Able to follow legal, ethical,professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct.

Involves patients in decisions aboutprescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidelines.

Leadership

Demonstrate understanding of thepharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately withinthe workplace.

Demonstrate understanding of, andcontributes to, the workplace vision.

Engages with Patient ParticipationGroups (PPGs) and involves PPGs in development of the role and practices.

Demonstrates ability to improve qualitywithin limitations of service.

Reviews yearly progress and developsclear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others.

Demonstrate ability to motivate self toachieve goals.

Promotes diversity and equality inpeople management techniques and leads by example.

Management

Demonstrate understanding of theimplications of national priorities for the team and/or service.

Demonstrate understanding of the processfor effective resource utilisation.

Demonstrate understanding of, andconforms to, relevant standards of practice.

Demonstrates ability to identify andresolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol.

Follows professional and organisationalpolicies/procedures relating to performance management.

Demonstrate ability to extend boundariesof service delivery within the team.

Education, Training and Development

Understands and demonstrates thecharacteristics of a role model to members in the team and/or service.

Demonstrates understanding of thementorship process.

Demonstrates ability to conduct teachingand assessment effectively according to a learning plan with supervision frommore experience colleague.

Demonstrates self-development throughcontinuous professional development activity; working alongside senior clinicalpharmacist to identifying areas to develop Participates in the delivery offormal education programmes.

Demonstrates an understanding of currenteducational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keeps up to datewith relevant clinical practice.

Ensures appropriate clinical supervisionis in place to support development Enrolled into review and appraisal systemswithin the practice.

Research and Evaluation

Demonstrates ability to criticallyevaluate and review literature.

Demonstrates ability to identify wherethere is a gap in the evidence base to support practice.

Demonstrates ability to generateevidence suitable for presentations at practice and local level.

Demonstrates ability to apply researchevidence base into working place.

Demonstrates understanding of principlesof research governance.

Health and Safety/Risk Management

The post-holder must comply at all timeswith the Practices Health and Safety policies, in particular by followingagreed safe working procedures and reporting incidents using the organisationsIncident Reporting System.

The post-holder will comply with theData Protection Act and the Access to Health Records Act

Equality and Diversity

Thepost-holder must co-operate with all policies and procedures designed to ensureequality of employment. Co-workers, patients and visitors must be treatedequally irrespective of gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexualorientation, religion etc.

Respect for Patient Confidentiality

Thepost-holder should respect patient confidentiality at all times and not divulgepatient information unless sanctioned by the requirements of the role.

Special Working Conditions

Thepost-holder is required to travel independently between practice sites (whereapplicable), and to attend meetings etc. hosted by other agencies.

Thepost-holder will have contact with body fluids wound exudates; urine in clinical practice.

Job Description Agreement

Thisjob description is intended to provide an outline of the key tasks andresponsibilities only. There may beother duties required of the post-holder commensurate with the position. This description will be open to regularreview and may be amended to take into account development within thePractice. All members of staff should beprepared to take on additional duties or relinquish existing duties in order tomaintain the efficient running of the Practice.

Corporate Responsibilities

Towork with other members of the practice team to ensure delivery of satisfactoryperformance, governance and management of risk relative to role.

Topromote constructive working relationships with the external organisations toensure that the practice is discharging its obligations effectively and thatany opportunities for more efficient working alongside other Networks or theICS are identified.

Towork effectively in collaboration with clinicians and managers of other healthand social care organisations within the health system or elsewhere, wherethere are common interests or care pathways.

Torepresent the practice as required at external meetings and functions and toact as an ambassador for the organisation.

Toensure compliance with safe systems of work and that all necessary health andsafety requirements are met.

BecclesMedical Centre aspires to be a flexible, productive organisation which changespositively the way care is delivered. Itwill be management resource light, buying in some important management servicesand so all staff will be required to carry out a range of activities notexplicitly defined in their job description (but within their competence). Activities will also be performed by teamscoming together for specific projects and all staff will be supportive of otherstaff, irrespective of which part of the organisation they come from. The postholder may be required to cover for/support other activities within their levelof competence and responsibility.

Toparticipate in relevant staff training (including compliance with mandatorytraining requirements).

Toconduct oneself in a manner consistent with the practices vision and valuesand approach to patient and public engagement within Norfolk and Waveney ICS.

Toensure patient/staff confidentiality and information governance standards aremaintained and respected at all times.

Thepost holder will be required to work with their line manager and other membersof the wider practice team to ensure that Beccles Medical Centre succeeds withits strategic objectives, and delivers the shared vision of the aims, valuesand cultures of the organisation.

Towork with other colleagues in order to develop semi-autonomous local clustersof operation, and to facilitate the clusters with developing systems to deliveragreed strategies and stay within fair shared budgets.

Qualifications

Essential

Desirable