Loughton, Buckhurst Hill & Chigwell PCN has an exciting opportunity for a hardworking, enthusiastic and innovative pharmacist to join our primary care network. You will be based at Buckhurst Hill Surgery/Kings Medical Practice, but will be required to travel between all of the GP practices within our PCN. The role is offered on a full-time basis, for 37.5 hour per week, over 5 days.
The main responsibilities of the role include:
- Clinically assessing and treating patients, using expert knowledge of medicines, for specific disease areas;
- Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines and medicine information (e.g. side-effects, dosage);
- Providing pharmaceutical medication review and health education advice to patients, by face-to-face, telephone or notes-based review, as agreed with the practice;
- Providing leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement;
- Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation and adult immunisation programmes;
- Processing specialist treatment letters;
- Supporting practice dispensary;
- Processing hospital medication discharge letters;
- Acting as a key contact, for all medication related queries;
- Supporting improvements in clinical care, through practice-based audits and implementing change;
- Running clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics;
- Conducting spirometry, child immunisation, travel vaccination, diabetic foot checks and NHS health checks, as well as other tasks, as required, on completion of appropriate training;
- Conducting care-planning, including: mental health, admission avoidance schemes and end-of-life patients.
- Reviewing daily pathology results and act on results.
- Undertaking minor ailments triage and directing patients, based on clinical need;
- Capturing relevant patient health information at all consultations including contributing to the quality outcomes framework;
- Monitoring patients with complex, long-term conditions such as hypertension, diabetes and COPD, ensuring that medication is optimised, titrated, monitored and complied with;
- Providing clinical advice and expertise on medication;
- Establishing ongoing professional relationships with individual patients;
- Liaising with other providers, such as secondary care, community pharmacy and care or nursing homes, as necessary, to ensure the safe transfer of care;
- Delivering on and/or overseeing relevant aspects of the PCN Directed Enhanced Service (DES).
- Taking a central role in the clinical aspects of shared-care protocols, clinical research with medicines and liaison with specialist pharmacists;
- Being part of a professional clinical network and having access to appropriate clinical supervision;
- Supporting the PCN clinical director as necessary;
- Managing the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process, by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates;
- Reviewing prescribing against local and national targets, and engaging with the wider prescribing team to rectify any issues;
- Carrying out structured medicines-optimisation reviews in care homes;
- Contributing to the reduction of medicine wastage within practices across the PCN.
You will be a qualified pharmacist with strong experience within primary care and have the following skills and qualifications:
- Completion of a degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council;
- Post-qualification experience in pharmacy (hospital, primary care or community), or working towards obtaining this;
- Qualified independent prescriber, or working towards this;
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS);
- Awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice;
- Ability to demonstrate general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas;
- Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general care plans for patients with long-term conditions;
- Ability to demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision as an individuals;
- Ability to recognise priorities when problem-solving and identify deviations from normal patterns, referring to seniors or GPs with confidence, when appropriate;
- Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies, procedures and codes of conduct;
- Ability to assist patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidance;
- Non-judgemental attitude and ability to be flexible and adaptable;
- Self-motivated with excellent communication skills;
- Understand the need for patient confidentiality.
Loughton, Buckhurst Hill & Chigwell PCN serves a patient population of 60,000. We operate a SystmOne clinical system with a history of high QOF achievement and a CQC rating of good across all domains.
Benefits include:
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