Practice Pharmacist in Warminster

Thornaby & Barwick Medical Group are looking to welcome an experienced Pharmacist to our team.

We require:

• A masters degree or equivalent in the relevant area of expertise; that encompasses the four pillars of clinical practice, leadership and management, education and research, with demonstration of core capabilities and area specific clinical competencies.
• Qualified from an approved 18-month training pathway or equivalent and qualified as an independent prescriber.

The successful candidate would have developed the skills and knowledge to allow them to take on an expanded role and scope of practice caring for patients.

Main duties of the job:

• An enthusiastic and forward-thinking clinical pharmacist.
• Develop and manage all aspects of medicines across the practice network.
• Working with a highly skilled multi-disciplinary team you will work in a patient facing role based in both of our practice sites. This is an evolving role with huge scope for development.

About us:

Thornaby and Barwick Medical Group is part of BYTES PCN and provide services to patients via a multi-disciplinary team of GPs, Advanced Practitioners, Nurses, GPAs, Physician Associate, Pharmacy Technician, MSK, Social Prescribers, Adult and children mental health professionals, alongside competent and efficient admin, reception teams and managers. We are a training practice and regularly host GP Trainees and hold education meetings to develop shared learning.

Job responsibilities:

• Patient facing - long-term condition clinics.
• Working within the practice-based team to undertake medication reviews particularly in high-risk groups.
• Review the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation).
• Make appropriate recommendations to GPs for medicine improvement.
• Patient facing Structured Medication Review.
• Undertake structured medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for nurses and/or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
• Review patients full clinical condition, blood monitoring, interface care arrangements, social isolation etc. including reducing inappropriate polypharmacy and wasteful prescribing.
• Care Home Medication Reviews.
• Undertake structured medication reviews and produce recommendations for nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
• Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
• Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate.
• Patient facing medicines support.
• Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.
• Telephone medicines support.
• Medicine information to practice staff and patients.
• Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines.
• Suggesting and recommending solutions.
• Providing follow-up for patients to monitor and effect of any changes.
• Management of medicines at discharge from hospital.
• 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.
• Medicines Optimisation.
• Deliver medicines optimisation outcomes against a set workplan dealing with cost saving initiatives, QIPP and medication safety work streams.
• Interface with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals including the promotion of the repeat dispensing service.
• Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long-term condition reviews etc.
• Participate in 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.
• Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. 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.
• Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
• Increase safe and effective prescribing through mechanisms such as audit. Improve quality in prescribing using Quality Improvement methodology including the use of Plan Do Study Act (PDSA) cycles.
• Monitor practice prescribing and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors or subject to shared care.
• Auditing practices compliance against NICE guidelines.
• Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
• Work with general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
• Support public health campaigns.
• Provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public.

Person Specification:

Qualifications:

• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent.
• Independent prescriber CPPE primary care pathway training course or working towards/intent of completing.

Experience:

• Minimum of two years post-qualification experience.

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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.