Prescribing GP-Practice Based Pharmacist

Responsibilities

• To consult patients, face to face or remotely, to perform effective medication reviews, promote primary prevention and enhance management of chronic diseases under practice protocols and NICE guidance.
• Work with other initiatives including safe prescribing in cohorts such as the frail elderly and those with polypharmacy and opportunities for appropriate deprescribing.
• To provide guidance to the pharmacy and medicines management team.
• To work as part of a multi‑disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
• Take responsibility for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical structured medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy.
• To develop with the GP Prescribing Lead, effective protocols for the team to ensure efficient and effective processes are in place for patients.
• Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.
• Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients and to help in tackling inequalities.
• Provide support on person centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
• Support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self‑care, through structured medication reviews.
• To assist and lead where appropriate in identifying cost effective and evidence‑based use of medicines.
• 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) including the development of the practice‑based dispensary.
• Answer medicine related enquiries from GPs, practice staff and patients. Suggesting and recommending appropriate solutions and provide follow‑up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes as indicated.
• To participate in prescribing audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.
• To provide support and guidance to the pharmacy and medicines management team including mentoring, support and professional development.
• Support the integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload.
• Analyse, interpret, and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making across the primary care team.
• To assist in reducing medication errors such as Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
• Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved, including regular audits.
• Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across PCN and the wider health and social care system.
• To maintain computerised records in accordance with data protection principles to ensure patient confidentiality.
• To keep up to date with current pharmacy practice, new drugs, and their uses.
• To attend the monthly clinical and other meetings when required.
• To represent the practice at locality Prescribing Leads Meetings with responsibility to inform the partnership of actions.
• To abide by the General Pharmaceutical Society\’s code of ethics, observing and applying all professional, ethical, and legal obligations.

Qualifications

• Master\’s degree in pharmacy or equivalent
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Qualified prescriber
• Minimum of 2 years\’ experience as a pharmacist, in acute hospital.
• Postgraduate clinical qualification and/or significant relevant clinical experience to demonstrate similar level of knowledge
• Experience of working with the public.
• Experience of being responsible and accountable for own professional actions, working independently within professional and organisational boundaries and being responsible for the actions of others within their area of responsibility.

Desirable Qualifications

• Completed Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE) Clinical Pharmacist 18‑month training pathway.

About the Practice

Riverside Health Partnership is a very friendly, supportive and well‑run, 4‑site training practice of over 23,000 patients based in Bassetlaw. The primary site is Retford, a North Notts market town, by the A1 with other sites at Misterton and Gringley (bordering SE Lincs and S Yorks) and Harworth (ex‑mining town off the A1 nr Doncaster).

We are well within the driving distance of Newark, Lincoln, Doncaster, Mansfield, Rotherham and Sheffield. Only 80mins on mainline to London. Good schooling, affordable housing and an abundance of countryside pursuits.

We have 16 GPs, 4 ANPs, 7 PNs, 6-8 GP Trainees, 3 HCAs and a large, highly performing management team. There are specialisms in GP Training, Diabetes and metabolic medicine, COPD/Asthma, palliative care and women\’s health. The pharmacy team comprises of 2.5WTE pharmacists, 2WTE pharmacy techs and 3WTE medicine coordinators.

We offer flexibility in working hours, patterns and renumeration and the pay scale will start at Band 8A. We offer additional benefits such as paid‑for private health cover, day off for birthdays and employee of the month/year schemes (recognition and rewards).

Riverside Health Partnership seeks a part‑time/full‑time, motivated committed prescribing pharmacist to work with our excellent team of pharmacists, pharmacy techs and medicine coordinators. We highly value emotional intelligence, good team working skills, flexibility and professionalism apart from clinical skills. There is a focus to develop the team and our medicines management services further with more patient facing clinics and pharmacist‑led management of chronic disease, medicines optimisation and managing polypharmacy and appropriate pragmatic prescribing in the elderly amongst other initiatives. Guidance and support for the pharmacy and medicines management team to deal with prescriptions/medicine/prescribing queries is core. The role has a high degree of autonomy.