Clinical Pharmacist

NHS Jobs; Town of Oxford; On-site; CAD 79,000 - 121,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Pharmacist to support prescribing policies and medicines management within a GP practice setting. The role involves collaboration with GP Leads and the Business Manager to develop strategies, conduct reviews, and resolve complex prescribing queries.

You will review secondary care requests, perform structured medication reviews, and provide guidance on cost-effective prescribing and budget considerations.

Qualifications

• Review, develop and implement prescribing policies and strategies for the practice.
• Conduct structured medication reviews and address complex regimens.
• Discuss medication issues with patients and clinicians as appropriate.
• Review secondary care requests and respond to inappropriate prescribing.
• Monitor prescribing issues and advise on cost effective prescribing and budgeting.

Responsibilities

• Work with GP Leads and Business Manager to review prescribing policies.
• Design and implement audits related to prescribing targets and QOF/IIF.
• Respond to internal queries to amend prescriptions and re-authorise repeats.
• Involve in education and training for staff on prescribing practices.
• Provide medicines information updates and keep the intranet prescribing folder up to date.

Skills

Policy development

Structured medication reviews

Interprofessional collaboration

Cost-conscious prescribing

Education

Pharmacist degree

Job description

Job Responsibilities Prescribing Systems and Policies To work with the GP Leads and Business Manager to review, develop and implement prescribing policies and strategies for the whole practice. To suggest and design audits in relation to prescribing targets, implementation of locality policies, Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF) and IIF Medication Review and Optimisation: To respond to internal practice queries to amend prescriptions, re-authorise repeats, clarify doses, clarify products, give appropriate alternatives when availability is an issue. To discuss specific patient and prescribing issues (e.g. complicated regimes/polypharmacy, compliance difficulties, multiple adverse effects, medication reduction regimes) with other clinicians as necessary. To undertake structured medication reviews To discuss medication issues with patients as needed and appropriate e.g. adverse effects/interactions, overdose/inadvertent ingestion, OTC remedies, internal queries from staff and queries from care homes. To complete DTA (direction to administer) forms for district nurses for GPs to authorise. Medicines Reconciliation To review secondary care requests for new medication (as communicated by discharge summaries, outpatient letters, etc.) and raise any queries with the relevant GP and discuss how to respond when inappropriate prescribing requests arise. To review and continue repeat medications for new patients who have just registered with the practice and suggest GP medication review where appropriate. Medicines Information/Education To monitor and inform colleagues as relevant about ongoing prescribing issues, e.g. new guidelines (national and local), new products being asked for by secondary care, manufacturing and supply problems, new prescribing restrictions or contraindications, and individual and systematic errors made by colleagues. To advise on cost effective prescribing and prescribing budget issues. To keep the prescribing folder on the practice intranet up to date, with administrative support. Chronic Disease Medicines Management According to experience and training working within the multidisciplinary team to assist with medical management of conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and asthma. Teaching/training You may be asked to contribute to the training of our PCN pharmacy technician, administrators and receptionists who deal with prescriptions. More informally, we all love to learn from each other and see sharing of expertise as integral to working in our GP practice.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust