Clinical Pharmacist - Sheffield, United Kingdom - Abbey Lane Surgery

Description

Job summary

We are looking for a qualified Clinical Pharmacist to join our friendly forward-thinking team.

We are a 2 site practice in Woodseats (S8) and Totley (S17) using system one. The role of Clinical Pharmacist with Beauchief Medical Practice is to work with our multi- disciplinary team to deliver the best Health Care service to our patients. As a Pharmacist you will be responsible for working alongside GPs and PAs dealing with patients'medication including repeat prescriptions, medication reviews, advising them on appropriate prescribing, dealing with medicine reconciliation, drug monitoring etc ( see details of job spec) and clinical supervision of a team of 2 qualified Pharmacy technicians and 3 Apprentice Pharmacy technicians and much more.

We are looking for a Pharmacist with experience in Primary Care who can work 25 hours a week across Monday to Friday, 5 hours per day with flexibility around start and finish times . The position will predominantly be based at our practice on Abbey Lane in Woodseats , but flexibility is required to work at Totley when the service requires.

We are a high achieving practice in terms of QOF and have consistent annual underspend for PQIS. We came first in the city in 2023 on patient satisfaction data published by NHSE.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing

role. They will take responsibility for the medicine related areas of chronic disease management and undertake clinical medication reviews, including those with complex polypharmacy.

The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will help support the repeat prescription system; deal with acute prescription requests and undertake medicines reconciliations on the transfer of care. Furthermore, they will promote systems for safer prescribing and provide expertise in clinical medicines advice.

The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation, quality improvement and contractual obligations, including the Quality Outcomes Framework.

The post holder will provide clinical supervision for a team of 2 qualified Pharmacy Technicians and 3 Apprentice Pharmacy Technicians

About us

We are a two site practice in the South West of the city with a patient list size of approximately 7200.

We have a multidisciplinary clinical team including , 3 GP's , 3 Physician Associate, Practice Nurse, Health Care Assistants , 2 qualifeid Pharmacy Techncians and 3 Apprentice Pharamcy Technicians all supported my our expereicned admin and reception team.

Job responsibilities

Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility

See patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required ( COPD, asthma).

Review the on-going need for each medicine

A review of monitoring needs

Support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines ( medicines optimisation).

Manage own case load and run long-term condition clinics

Make appropriate recommendations to GPs for medicine improvement.

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and implement own prescribing changes and order relevant monitoring tests

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

Answers all medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams ( community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines.

Suggest and recommend solutions

Provide follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes

Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews.

Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to highrisk patient groups.

To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to highrisk groups of patients ( those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).

Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc

Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation

process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review.

Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.

Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches.

This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both

Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components ( advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).

Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision-making

Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team

Monitor and report on prescribing spend against budget according to the latest available data

Analyse variations to expected expenditure and design and implement interventions to correct any negative variation (over spend)

To ensure that there is a clear plan to control prescribing spend

Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs).

Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system.

Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance. Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.

Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation

Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved

To support public health campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.

Experience

Essential

Qualifications

Essential

Skills

Essential

Desirable