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    Practice Pharmacist - Preston, United Kingdom - Park Medical Practice

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    Job summary

    The Practice-based Clinical Pharmacist will improve the quality and safety of care offered to patients.

    Ideally they will have regular contact with patients and will reduce the workload of GP prescribers in the practice by performing medication reviews, supporting the management of patients with long-term conditions, undertaking quality audits and processing repeat medication requests, reviewing hospital correspondence.

    The successful candidates will supported by prescribers at the practice to ensure that appropriate medication is prescribed, ensuring that income and dispensary profit is maintained whilst fulfilling the requirements of QOF, ICB and locality candidate will join an expanding team of pharmacists, technicians and pre-registration pharmacists.

    Main duties of the job

    The pharmacist will develop and manage medicines optimisation services within the practice; the successful candidate(s) will be supported by a pharmacists; pharmacy technician, medicine management co-ordinator and three prescription clerks and a wide range of clinical and non clinical team members.

    Key Tasks -

    Undertake medication reviews for patients

    Act as an interface to acute trust, community services, mental health, community pharmacy and ICB

    Provide leadership on medicines and prescribing systems including safe systems, risk and digital solutions

    Undertake areas of responsibility for QOF / QC and QIPP for the practice

    Ensure CQC compliance where medicines are involved

    Manage patients with complex poly-pharmacy

    Provideadvice for the GP management of more complex patients / poly-pharmacy patients

    Participatein serious incident investigations and multidisciplinary case reviews

    About us

    This is an exciting opportunity to join a forward thinking training practice. We are a busy practice with a list of over 18,000 patients across two sites

    The practice is looking to recruit additional candidates to support the development and expansion of medical services across the practice.

    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    The key aims for the clinical pharmacist are:

    To reduce the medicines related workload on doctors

    Increase safety and quality of prescribed medicines

    Provide support on medicines related issues to the whole practice team

    Be a point of contact for patients regarding medicines queries

    A senior advisory role in the day to day running of the prescription team

    Clinical work will include:

    Structured Medication Review

    Chronic Disease Management (for example, managing hypertension/Type 2 Diabetes/Asthma/COPD patients, polypharmacy review subject to experience)

    Use appropriate provided clinical templates within the EMIS Web Clinical System

    Medicines reconciliation on transfer between care providers

    Support the practice development work including QoF Domains, improving disease registers; Prescribing Safety, Clinical audit, Local Enhanced Services support

    Lead on prescription management (systems and processes, ensuring monitoring is being done, supporting repeat prescription staff

    To review hospital correspondence, discharge summaries in relation to medication changes.

    Person Specification

    Qualifications

    Essential

  • Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
  • Registered with GPhC
  • Member of RPS
  • Independent prescriber status
  • Desirable

  • Postgraduate knowledge through a Postgraduate Diploma and qualifications ( clinical, community, therapeutics) or equivalent.
  • Additional qualification in chronic disease or minor ailments would be advantageous.
  • Experience in medication reviews and basic clinical skills.


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