Clinical pharmacist inManchester inManchester PUBLISHED 8 DEC 2023

Depending on experience Band 7 - 8A  PERMANENT 
The Lakes Medical Centre is looking for an experienced Pharmacist to join our friendly and successful practice team.

Lead on where changes in evidence require changes in prescribing across patient population e.g. where a drug is withdrawn or indications change.

Liaise with colleagues in community pharmacy to align support for medicines adherence.

Increase quality and safety and support improvements in clinical care through practice based audit and implementing change.

Prescribing advice to prescribers in practice e.g. temporary non availability of drugs.

Ensure patient safety when they are transferred between care providers through reconciliation of prescribed medicines.

Demonstrate general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas.

Demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision as an individual.

Recognise priorities when problem-solving and identify deviations from the normal pattern and refer to GPs when appropriate.

Follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct .

Involve patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and support adherence as per NICE guidance.

Recognise the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their involvement in patient care.

Demonstrate use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations, ICB).

Demonstrate ability to work as a member of the team

Recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary.

Liaise with ICB colleagues including ICB medicine management team on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.

Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and implement this appropriately within the practice.

Demonstrate understanding of, and contribute to the workplace vision.

Demonstrate ability to improve quality within limitations of service.

Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve goals.

Oversee the MHRA alerts/CAS alerts to make sure these are audited, actioned and logged on a spreadsheet

Conduct regular medication audits under the guidance of the Prescribing Lead GP.

Assist in training of Pharmacy technicians and trainee doctors.

Basis: Part Time 25 hours (negotiable)

Permanent Position

The Lakes Medical Centre is looking for an experienced Pharmacist to join our friendly and successful practice team. We are a forward-thinking training practice, supportive of continued education, personal development and focussed on providing high quality patient care to 10,800+ patients.

Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review. Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues.

Manage patients and health care professionals medicine queries.

Manage practice formularies to improve the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of prescribing.

Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety.

Work with primary care professionals and patients to implement NICE and other evidence based guidelines.

Run clinics where medicines are the main interventions.

Contribute to multi-morbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews.

Provide medicines information and training to Practice healthcare professionals and admin staff.

Act as a source of medicines information for all of the practice team and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives e.g. around out of stocks)

Working within the practice based team to undertake medication reviews particularly in high risk groups.

Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all prescribers within the practice.

Lead on where changes in evidence require changes in prescribing across patient population e.g. where a drug is withdrawn or indications change.

Liaise with colleagues in community pharmacy to align support for medicines adherence.

Increase quality and safety and support improvements in clinical care through practice based audit and implementing change.

Prescribing advice to prescribers in practice e.g. temporary non availability of drugs.

Ensure patient safety when they are transferred between care providers through reconciliation of prescribed medicines.

Demonstrate general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas.

Demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision as an individual.

Recognise priorities when problem-solving and identify deviations from the normal pattern and refer to GPs when appropriate.

Follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct .

Involve patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and support adherence as per NICE guidance.

Recognise the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their involvement in patient care.

Demonstrate use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations, ICB).

Demonstrate ability to work as a member of the team

Recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary.

Liaise with ICB colleagues including ICB medicine management team on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.

Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and implement this appropriately within the practice.

Demonstrate understanding of, and contribute to the workplace vision.

Demonstrate ability to improve quality within limitations of service.

Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve goals.

Oversee the MHRA alerts/CAS alerts to make sure these are audited, actioned and logged on a spreadsheet

Conduct regular medication audits under the guidance of the Prescribing Lead GP.

Assist in training of Pharmacy technicians and trainee doctors.

Basis: Part Time 25 hours (negotiable)

Permanent Position

The Lakes Medical Centre is looking for an experienced Pharmacist to join our friendly and successful practice team. We are a forward-thinking training practice, supportive of continued education, personal development and focussed on providing high quality patient care to 10,800+ patients.

Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review. Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues.

Manage patients and health care professionals medicine queries.

Manage practice formularies to improve the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of prescribing.

Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety.

Work with primary care professionals and patients to implement NICE and other evidence based guidelines.

Run clinics where medicines are the main interventions.

Contribute to multi-morbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews.

Provide medicines information and training to Practice healthcare professionals and admin staff.

Act as a source of medicines information for all of the practice team and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives e.g. around out of stocks)

Working within the practice based team to undertake medication reviews particularly in high risk groups.

Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all prescribers within the practice.



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