Clinical Pharmacist -GP Surgery -16 hours / week - 12 months Contract

Clinical Responsibilities

• Clinical medication reviews for patients with single or multiple long term conditions where medicines optimisation is required.
• Work on DES related PCN which are relevant to pharmacy.
• Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals or intermediate care and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post-discharge and to reduce risk of readmission.
• Manage repeat prescription requests, resolving queries within scope of practice.
• Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.
• Implement changes to medicines in line with MHRA alerts, product withdrawal or shortage and other local or national guidance.
• Maintain full and complete records of all patient contacts using appropriate clinical templates and coding.
• Undertake a proactive role in audit and quality improvement, implementing recommendations where appropriate.
• Provide independent information to patients regarding medicines and prescribing changes, initiating further support from other healthcare professionals where appropriate.
• Participate in review and setting of policies relating to medicines management and prescribing, and help ensure practices prescribe in accordance with local guidelines and formulary.
• Identify areas of clinical risk at network level and make recommendations to support introduction of new working practices that optimise prescribing quality and use of network resources.
• Maintain own clinical and professional competence and be responsible for own continuous professional development.
• Work with practices to ensure full compliance with Care Quality Commission standards for safe and effective care.

Work Relationships

• Patients and carers where appropriate.
• GPs, nurses and other practice staff including practice pharmacists.
• GP prescribing leads, CCG pharmacists and medicines management team.
• Secondary Care and interface pharmacists, community nurses and other allied health professionals.
• Community pharmacists and support staff.
• Encourage supporting staff to collaborate through sharing information and intelligence across different activities.

Health & Safety

• Assist in promoting and maintaining own and others' health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety Policy, including use of personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines.
• Identify risks involved in work activities and undertake such activities in a way that manages those risks.
• Make effective use of training to update knowledge and skills.
• Use appropriate infection control procedures, maintain work areas tidy and safe and free from hazards.
• Report potential risks identified.

Equality, Diversity & Rights

• Support equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues.
• Act recognising importance of peoples' rights, interpreting them consistently with practice procedures, policies and legislation.
• Respect privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.
• Behave in a manner which is welcoming, non-judgemental and respectful of circumstances, priorities and rights.

Personal / Professional Development

• Participate in any training program implemented by the practice.
• Participate in annual individual performance review and maintain a record of own development.
• Take responsibility for own development, learning and performance, demonstrating skills and activities to others undertaking similar work.
• Training may need to be undertaken outside normal practice hours and off site.

Quality and Governance

• Strive to maintain quality within the practice.
• Alert other team members to issues of quality and risk.
• Assess own performance and take accountability for actions.
• Work effectively with individuals in other agencies.
• Effectively manage own time, workload and resources.

Confidentiality

• Respect patient confidentiality and act accordingly.
• Do not divulge patient, carer, colleague or practice information to unauthorised persons.

Legal & EEO Statement

The job description will be periodically reviewed in light of the developing work requirements. The post-holder will be expected to contribute towards that revision.