Clinical Pharmacist inWorcester inWorcester PUBLISHED THU 7 NOV 2024

St Johns House Medical Centre, Worcester is looking for a committed dynamic enthusiastic pharmacist to join our practice team as we look to grow our team. Always trying to improve patient care and staff work life balance.

The Role

We are a large practice, working from purpose built premises with a well-established multidisciplinary team, providing primary care services to 13,700 patients.

We have enjoyed the benefit of employing a clinical pharmacist for the last six years and recognise the expanding role of pharmacists in primary care. We encourage and support career progression if desired.

The clinical team meets daily over coffee. There is good team ethos and clinical support.

Key responsibilities will involve:

Working closely with the GPs to resolve day to day medicine issues

Working closely with the practice clinical pharmacist

Managing and prescribing for long term conditions in clinics

Working closely with ANPs and practice nurses

Reviewing and advising patients on complex medication regimes

Carrying out face to face or telephone appointments with patients

Reconciling medicines at interface of care, most commonly discharged from hospital. To include identifying any unexplained changes and arranging follow up

Undertaking partly a medicines management role. Manage the repeat prescribing authorisation process by renewing medication requests, medicines reaching review dates and medicines queries

About us

Clinical Responsibilities:

The post-holder is expected to take due note of and act in accordance with the standards of clinical governance that are agreed within the practice. Any concerns should be brought to the attention of the partners as soon as practicable.

In accordance with the practice timetable, the post-holder will make him/herself available to undertake a variety of duties including: surgery consultations, telephone consultations and queries, checking and signing repeat prescriptions, taking action on electronic prescription requests, and dealing with queries, paperwork and correspondence, (including electronic correspondence), dealing with patient test results and referral letters, paperwork and other correspondence in a timely fashion

Make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers

Assess the health care needs of patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems

Screen patients for disease risk factors and early signs of illness

In consultation with patients and in line with current practice disease management protocols, develop care plans for health

Provide counselling and health education

Admit or discharge patients to and from the caseload and refer to other care providers as appropriate

Record clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards, primarily by use of the computer system and complete the clinical system clinical templates as appropriate

Collect and use data for audit purposes

Compile and issue computer-generated acute and repeat prescriptions (avoiding hand-written prescriptions whenever possible)

Prescribe in accordance with the practice standards and locally agreed or national guidelines whenever this is clinically appropriate

In general the post-holder will be expected to undertake all the normal duties and responsibilities associated with a Pharmacist working within primary care.

Other Responsibilities Within the Practice:

Awareness of and compliance with all relevant policies/guidelines including, but not limited to, prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety, QOF, CQC

A commitment to life-long learning and audit to ensure evidence-based best practice

Contribute to evaluation/audit and clinical standard setting within the organisation

Contribute to the development of computer-based patient records

Contribute to the summarising of patient records and Read-Coding patient data

Attend training and events organised by the practice or other agencies, where appropriate e.g. CPR training. This includes clinical and non-clinical training and events.

Participate in practice meetings when requested

Provide information when reasonably requested by the practice manager to ensure that all personnel and other records are accurate e.g. hepatitis status

To meet all deadlines for audits and written returns so that the practice meets quality standards and receives the designated funding (QOF, LES, DES etc.)