Pharmacist

West Suffolk Clinical Commissioning Group; Buckhurst Hill; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS pension

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Loughton, Buckhurst Hill & Chigwell PCN is seeking a pharmacist to join our primary care network. You will operate from Buckhurst Hill Surgery and travel between GP practices within the PCN in a full-time, 37.5 hour week.

You will clinically assess patients, provide medicines info, lead medicines optimisation, support the dispensary, and contribute to public health campaigns and audits within a supportive professional network.

Qualifications

• Degree in pharmacy and GPhC registration.
• Post-qualification experience in pharmacy (hospital, primary care or community).
• Qualified independent prescriber, or working towards this.
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS).
• Knowledge of common acute and long-term conditions likely to be seen in general practice.
• Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review care plans for long-term conditions.
• Ability to follow policies, procedures and codes of conduct.

Responsibilities

• Clinically assess and treat patients using medicines knowledge for specific disease areas.
• Provide specialist medicines information, side-effects, dosage guidance.
• Lead medicines optimisation and contribute to quality improvement.
• Support practice dispensary and management of hospital discharge letters.
• Deliver vaccines and public health campaigns (flu, immunisations).
• Run clinics where medicines are primary interventions (e.g. anticoagulant monitoring).
• Review pathology results and act on them; undertake triage as needed.
• Coordinate with secondary care and care homes to ensure safe care transfer.
• Oversee DES-related aspects within the PCN and participate in audits.

Skills

Communication skills

Accountability

Confidentiality

Clinical decision making

Education

MPharm degree

GPhC registration

Independent prescribing

RPS member

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

About the Role

Loughton, Buckhurst Hill & Chigwell PCN has an exciting opportunity for a hardworking, enthusiastic and innovative pharmacist to join our primary care network. You will be based at Buckhurst Hill Surgery, but will be required to travel between all of the GP practices within our PCN. The role is offered on a full-time basis, for 37.5 hour per week, over 5 days.

The main responsibilities of the role include:

• Clinically assessing and treating patients, using expert knowledge of medicines, for specific disease areas;
• Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines and medicine information (e.g. side-effects, dosage);
• Providing pharmaceutical medication review and health education advice to patients, by face-to-face, telephone or notes-based review, as agreed with the practice;
• Providing leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement;
• Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation and adult immunisation programmes;
• Processing specialist treatment letters;
• Supporting practice dispensary;
• Processing hospital medication discharge letters;
• Acting as a key contact, for all medication related queries;
• Supporting improvements in clinical care, through practice-based audits and implementing change;
• Running clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics;
• Conducting spirometry, child immunisation, travel vaccination, diabetic foot checks and NHS health checks, as well as other tasks, as required, on completion of appropriate training;
• Conducting care-planning, including: mental health, admission avoidance schemes and end-of-life patients.
• Reviewing daily pathology results and act on results.
• Undertaking minor ailments triage and directing patients, based on clinical need;
• Capturing relevant patient health information at all consultations including contributing to the quality outcomes framework;
• Monitoring patients with complex, long-term conditions such as hypertension, diabetes and COPD, ensuring that medication is optimised, titrated, monitored and complied with;
• Providing clinical advice and expertise on medication;
• Establishing ongoing professional relationships with individual patients;
• Liaising with other providers, such as secondary care, community pharmacy and care or nursing homes, as necessary, to ensure the safe transfer of care;
• Delivering on and/or overseeing relevant aspects of the PCN Directed Enhanced Service (DES).
• Taking a central role in the clinical aspects of shared-care protocols, clinical research with medicines and liaison with specialist pharmacists;
• Being part of a professional clinical network and having access to appropriate clinical supervision;
• Supporting the PCN clinical director as necessary;
• Managing the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process, by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates;
• Reviewing prescribing against local and national targets, and engaging with the wider prescribing team to rectify any issues;
• Carrying out structured medicines-optimisation reviews in care homes;
• Contributing to the reduction of medicine wastage within practices across the PCN.

About the Candidate

• Completion of a degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council;
• Post-qualification experience in pharmacy (hospital, primary care or community), or working towards obtaining this;
• Qualified independent prescriber, or working towards this;
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS);
• Awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice;
• Ability to demonstrate general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas;
• Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general care plans for patients with long-term conditions;
• Ability to demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision as an individuals;
• Ability to recognise priorities when problem-solving and identify deviations from normal patterns, referring to seniors or GPs with confidence, when appropriate;
• Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies, procedures and codes of conduct;
• Ability to assist patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidance;
• Non-judgemental attitude and ability to be flexible and adaptable;
• Self-motivated with excellent communication skills;
• Understand the need for patient confidentiality.

About Us

Loughton, Buckhurst Hill & Chigwell PCN serves a patient population of 60,000. We operate a SystmOne clinical system with a history of high QOF achievement and a CQC rating of good across all domains.

Benefits include:

• NHS pension
• 25 days annual leave

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.