Clinical Pharmacist inBirmingham inBirmingham PUBLISHED 28 NOV 2024
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Key responsibilities include:
- Assessing and triaging patients, providing treatment, and making referrals as needed.
- Acting as a prescriber or completing training to become one.
- Conducting structured medication reviews to optimize patient medication use.
- Leading efforts to integrate general practice with broader healthcare teams to improve patient outcomes.
- Managing repeat prescriptions and overseeing medicines optimization systems.
- Supporting quality initiatives and maintaining accurate clinical records.
The role is crucial for improving prescribing practices, promoting patient self-care, and addressing health inequalities. Previous applicants are not eligible to apply.
**PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY**
An exciting opportunity has arisen for the position of Clinical Pharmacist to join our welcoming and friendly team at Omnia Medical Practice, a forward thinking practice based in the East of Birmingham.
We are looking to employ an experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our existing team on a full time basis to help us expand and develop our chronic LTC management.
The successful candidate will be joining a team of; 7 Partners, 3 Salaried GPs, 1 Pharmacist, 1 ANP, 3 Physician Associates, 3 Nurses and 4 HCAs.
Main duties of the job The post holder is a pharmacy technician registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council. They are required to act within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a multi-disciplinary team within general practice and a Primary Care Network (PCN). The post holder will contribute to improving prescribing practice, patient care and deliver the Directed Enhanced Service PCN prescribing agenda. This includes improving repeat prescribing processes in General Practices within the PCN, promoting digitalisation, reducing medicines waste and minimising clinical risk associated with medicines taking. The post holder will help patients to get the best from their medicines, operating within clear protocols and guidance. They will be responsible for encouraging the development of better understanding of the principles of medicines optimisation throughout the practice. The post holder will work with all sectors of pharmacy across the health system to improve population health. Demonstrating improvement in patient outcomes and working to reduce health inequalities across the practice contributing to improving the efficiency of general practice and delivering a best in class service.
About usThe clinical pharmacist in a general practice organisation has the following key responsibilities in relation to delivering health services.
There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels.
A Clinical Pharmacist will:
Assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways) or make necessary referrals to other members of the primary care team
Be a prescriber, or completing training to become a prescriber, and work with and alongside the general practice team
Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the organisation and to help in tackling inequalities
Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care
Have a leadership role in supporting further 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
Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across the wider health and social care system
Consult patients within defined levels of competence and independently prescribe acute and repeat medication
Receive referrals and directed patients from triage services and other clinicians
Receive and resolve medicines queries from patients and other staff
Deliver long term condition clinics and home visits, particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes, and prescribe accordingly
Review medications for newly registered patients
Improve patient and carer understanding of confidence in and compliance with their medication
To maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
Encourage cost-effective prescribing throughout the organisation
Organise and oversee the organisations medicines optimisation systems, including the repeat prescribing and medication review systems
Secondary Responsibilities;
Support delivery of QOF, incentive schemes, QIPP and other quality or cost effectiveness initiatives
Agree and review prescribing formularies and protocols, and monitor compliance levels
Improve the data quality of medicines records and linking to conditions
Support virtual and remote models of consultation and support, including e-consultations, remote medication review, and telehealth and telemedicine
Undertake any tasks consistent with the level of the post and the scope of the role, ensuring that work is delivered in a timely and effective manner
**PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY**
An exciting opportunity has arisen for the position of Clinical Pharmacist to join our welcoming and friendly team at Omnia Medical Practice, a forward thinking practice based in the East of Birmingham.
We are looking to employ an experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our existing team on a full time basis to help us expand and develop our chronic LTC management.
The successful candidate will be joining a team of; 7 Partners, 3 Salaried GPs, 1 Pharmacist, 1 ANP, 3 Physician Associates, 3 Nurses and 4 HCAs.
Main duties of the job The post holder is a pharmacy technician registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council. They are required to act within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a multi-disciplinary team within general practice and a Primary Care Network (PCN). The post holder will contribute to improving prescribing practice, patient care and deliver the Directed Enhanced Service PCN prescribing agenda. This includes improving repeat prescribing processes in General Practices within the PCN, promoting digitalisation, reducing medicines waste and minimising clinical risk associated with medicines taking. The post holder will help patients to get the best from their medicines, operating within clear protocols and guidance. They will be responsible for encouraging the development of better understanding of the principles of medicines optimisation throughout the practice. The post holder will work with all sectors of pharmacy across the health system to improve population health. Demonstrating improvement in patient outcomes and working to reduce health inequalities across the practice contributing to improving the efficiency of general practice and delivering a best in class service.
About us
The clinical pharmacist in a general practice organisation has the following key responsibilities in relation to delivering health services.
There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels.
A Clinical Pharmacist will:
Assess and triage patients, including same day triage, and as appropriate provide definitive treatment (including prescribing medications following policy, patient group directives, NICE (national) and local clinical guidelines and local care pathways) or make necessary referrals to other members of the primary care team
Be a prescriber, or completing training to become a prescriber, and work with and alongside the general practice team
Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the organisation and to help in tackling inequalities
Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care
Have a leadership role in supporting further 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
Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across the wider health and social care system
Consult patients within defined levels of competence and independently prescribe acute and repeat medication
Receive referrals and directed patients from triage services and other clinicians
Receive and resolve medicines queries from patients and other staff
Deliver long term condition clinics and home visits, particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes, and prescribe accordingly
Review medications for newly registered patients
Improve patient and carer understanding of confidence in and compliance with their medication
To maintain accurate clinical records in conjunction with extant legislation
Encourage cost-effective prescribing throughout the organisation
Organise and oversee the organisations medicines optimisation systems, including the repeat prescribing and medication review systems
Secondary Responsibilities;
Support delivery of QOF, incentive schemes, QIPP and other quality or cost effectiveness initiatives
Agree and review prescribing formularies and protocols, and monitor compliance levels
Improve the data quality of medicines records and linking to conditions
Support virtual and remote models of consultation and support, including e-consultations, remote medication review, and telehealth and telemedicine
Undertake any tasks consistent with the level of the post and the scope of the role, ensuring that work is delivered in a timely and effective manner
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