Pharmacist (Primary Care) - Furnace House Surgery in Carmarthen

Role Overview

To improve the quality and effectiveness of medicines management within the practice.

To provide patient focussed, prudent healthcare.

To promote medicines safety and review polypharmacy.

To develop the practice pharmacist role, becoming a core member of the practice team working effectively with other health and social care professionals delivering services to patients.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for developing and managing systematic medication and polypharmacy reviews, which will take into account social and practical issues for the patient as well as clinical elements.
• To provide medicines optimisation in chronic disease management.
• To undertake medicines reconciliation following admission or discharge and patient moving into or out of care homes and those newly registered with the practice, following up medication related issues with the patient or other professionals.
• Review and action appropriate recommendations from Medicines Use Reviews/Discharge Medication reviews.
• To support public health and health promotion activities, including smoking cessation, administration of flu vaccinations and antibiotic campaigns.
• To act as the liaison with Community Pharmacy and Secondary Care.
• To resolve and action medication queries from practice staff and patients related to prescription requests or problems identified through the repeat prescribing service.
• To have direct patient contact, which may include dealing with occasionally distressing or emotional circumstances, including contact with terminally ill patients and their relatives, carers.
• To be accountable for one\’s own professional actions, in line with local and national guidelines and medicines legislation.
• To support the practice with initiatives i.e. NOAC service and Care Home DES.

About the Practice

Furnace House Surgery is a forward thinking and innovative GP practice driven by passion to put the patient at the centre of everything.

As a Practice and as colleagues, we are committed to providing each other with an open, friendly and supportive environment.

We are a long established 7 partner practice with interest in training and education, situated in West Wales. We have approximately 14,900 patients.

We use the INPS Vision clinical system, and we are looking for someone who will share our commitment to providing excellent healthcare to our patients, and become part of our team.