GP Practice Pharmacist

Posterngate surgery are seeking a positive, caring and self-motivated Pharmacist to bring their knowledge and expertise to expand our experienced and welcoming clinical team.

Main duties of the job

• Working with our multidisciplinary team to support clinicians in implementing effective dispensing, prescription management, prescribing systems and medicines management within the practice.

About us

Posterngate surgery is a large, innovative and high performing teaching practice. Working together with Selby Town Primary Care Network, we are a friendly, hardworking and supportive practice that aims to achieve the highest quality of care for our patients. A SystmOne practice with a skill mix consists of 6 GP Partners, Salaried GPs, First Contact Physios, Mental Health Practitioners, Urgent Care Practitioners and Pharmacy Team supported by Practice Nurses and HCAs. Easy access from York & Leeds with free on-site parking and modern comfortable premises.

Job responsibilities

• Review patients by consultation on complex medication regimens, screening & management of long term conditions, such as diabetes, asthma, COPD & hypertension.
• Deal with telephone based medication queries from patients, pharmacies & hospital.
• When appropriately qualified develop and utilise prescribing skills in face to face and remote settings to further support patient care.
• Provide medicines management advice to doctors, practice nurses and other health professionals to promote the safe, effective, quality and cost effective use of medicines.
• Run audits & design of safer prescribing systems.
• Review of medications for nursing & residential home patients.
• Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge & work with patients & community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.
• Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions & readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines & identifying & addressing medicines related issues.
• Manage practice formularies to improve the quality, safety & cost effectiveness of prescribing.
• Work with primary care professionals & patients to implement NICE & other evidence based guidelines.
• Act as a source of medicines information for all of the practice team & patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives e.g. around out of stocks).
• Implement drug withdrawals & alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety.
• Ensure that all dispensing errors and near misses are logged in accordance with the practice procedure and to undertake any activity necessary to rectify or prevent errors.
• Liaise with clinicians about prescriptions to ensure accuracy and prevent risk.
• Keep up-to-date with current pharmacy practice, new drugs and their uses for the purpose of continuing professional development.
• Provide regular support and feedback to the practice on prescribing action plans.
• Promote high quality, cost effective and evidence based use of medicines within the practice.
• Lead on identifying changes to minimise drug waste.
• Refer to ePACT data to analyse & review practice prescribing.

Person Specification

• Practising Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• A demonstrable commitment to professional development experience and relevant short courses.
• Independent prescriber or prepared to work towards.
• Post-registration experience - minimum three years.
• Experience of primary care clinical IT systems.
• Primary care and or medicines management in primary care.
• Team leadership experience.
• Experience of training others.
• Experience of SystmOne.
• Understanding of current national policies, in particular those that impact on medicines management services.
• A knowledge of prescribing issues affecting primary care and the interface with other areas of health and social care.
• Up to date therapeutic and clinical knowledge.
• Familiarity with the concept of evidence based medicine, effectiveness and appropriateness with critical appraisal skills.
• Computer literate, including advanced word-processing, spreadsheet skills, email and other computer databases.
• High level of analytical and literacy skills.
• Ability to apply clinical knowledge appropriately in a variety of settings; e.g. practice and strategic.
• Ability to plan, set objectives, priorities and review performance against objectives.
• A solutions focused approach.
• Excellent communication (oral and written) and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to delegate.
• Good time management.
• Demonstrate a knowledge of the changing NHS structures and functions with particular emphasis on issues relating to pharmacy practice.
• High level of understanding, interpretation and analysis of prescribing data; e.g. ePACT.
• Membership of Primary Care Pharmacy Association.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.