Clinical Pharmacist - Rutland

To work as an autonomous practitioner, within their professional boundaries, as part of the Practice multidisciplinary team. They will be supported by the Partners and Lead Pharmacist.

The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice.

Responsibilities

· Reauthorise repeat prescribing by reviewing patient requests, medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those in need of a review.

· Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place.

· Provide telephone advice or face-to-face clinics to patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines and acute medication requests.

· Reconcile medicines from clinical letters and following discharge from hospitals, identifying and rectifying any changes.

· Work with patients face-to-face or on the telephone who have multiple medical conditions where medicine optimisation is required and review the on-going need for each medication, i.e., Long Term Conditions

· Undertake clinical medication reviews, including structured medication reviews, with patients.

· Answer relevant medication related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams, hospitals, District Nurses and community Pharmacies.

· Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs and ICB, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.

· Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

· Work with the Team to ensure the Practice is compliant with CQC standards.

Generic Responsibilities

All staff at the Practice have a duty to conform to the following:

Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

A good attitude and positive action towards ED&I creates an environment where all individuals are able to achieve their full potential. Creating such an environment is important for three reasons: it improves operational effectiveness, it is morally the right thing to do, and it is required by law.

Patients and their families have the right to be treated fairly and be routinely involved in decisions about their treatment and care. They can expect to be treated with dignity and respect and will not be discriminated against on any grounds including age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Patients have a responsibility to treat other patients and our staff with dignity and respect.

Staff have the right to be treated fairly in recruitment and career progression. Staff can expect to work in an environment where diversity is valued and equality of opportunity is promoted. Staff will not be discriminated against on any grounds including age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. Staff have a responsibility to ensure that you treat our patients and their colleagues with dignity and respect.

Safety, Health, Environment and Fire (SHEF)

This Practice is committed to supporting and promoting opportunities to for staff to maintain their health, well-being and safety. You have a duty to take reasonable care of health and safety at work for you, your team and others, and to cooperate with employers to ensure compliance with health and safety requirements. All personnel are to comply with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, Environmental Protection Act 1990, Environment Act 1995, Fire Precautions (workplace) Regulations 1999 and other statutory legislation.

Confidentiality

This Practice is committed to maintaining an outstanding confidential service. Patients entrust and permit us to collect and retain sensitive information relating to their health and other matters, pertaining to their care. They do so in confidence and have a right to expect all staff will respect their privacy and maintain confidentiality at all times. It is essential that if, the legal requirements are to be met and the trust of our patients is to be retained that all staff protect patient information and provide a confidential service.

Quality & Continuous Improvement (CI)

To preserve and improve the quality of our output, all personnel are required to think not only of what they do, but how they achieve it. By continually re-examining our processes, we will be able to develop and improve the overall effectiveness of the way we work. The responsibility for this rests with everyone working within the Practice to look for opportunities to improve quality and share good practice.

This Practice continually strives to improve work processes which deliver health care with improved results across all areas of our service provision. We promote a culture of continuous improvement, where everyone counts and staff are permitted to make suggestions and contributions to improve our service delivery and enhance patient care.

Learning and Development

The effective use of training and development is fundamental in ensuring that all staff are equipped with the appropriate skills, knowledge, attitude and competences to perform their role. All staff will be required to partake and complete mandatory training as directed by the training coordinator, as well as participating in the Practice training programme. Staff will also be permitted (subject to approval) to undertake external training courses which will enhance their knowledge and skills, progress their career and ultimately, enable them to improve processes and service delivery.

Communication

All staff are to recognise the significance of collaborative working. Teamwork is essential in multidisciplinary environments. Effective communication is essential and all staff must ensure they communicate in a manner which enables the sharing of information in an appropriate manner.

Service Delivery

Staff at the Practice must adhere to the information contained with Practice policies and regional directives, ensuring protocols are adhered to at all times. Staff will be given detailed information during the induction process regarding policy and procedure.

Security

The security of the Practice is the responsibility of all personnel. Staff must ensure they remain vigilant at all times and report any suspicious activity immediately to their line manager. Under no circumstances are staff to share the codes for the door locks to anyone and are to ensure that restricted areas remain effectively secured.

This job description is intended to provide an outline of the key tasks and responsibilities only. There may be other duties required of the post-holder commensurate with the position. This description will be subject to regular review and may be amended to take into account development within the Practice. All members of staff should be prepared to take on additional duties or relinquish existing duties in order to maintain the efficient running of the Practice.

Job Types: Full-time, Contract, Permanent

Applications are warmly welcome from Pharmacists at any stage in their career. We can provide a stable and supportive background for newly qualified Pharmacists and those in their first 5 years or equally the opportunity to grow and develop if you have more experience. The role will be based within the 3 Practices. Salary commensurate with experience.

Oakham Medical Practice is based in a thriving market town in the beautiful county of Rutland. Market Overton is a picturesque village in the North of Rutland with a branch surgery in the village of Somerby just across the border in Leicestershire. The Practices serve 20000 patients as well as providing medical cover for the local public school in Oakham.

We are part of Rutland Health PCN and work collaboratively and effectively with our local partners in general practice, the community and social care.

We are a dynamic, creative and forward thinking Partner led team, training practice for GPST1-GPST3s and have supported numerous ACPs and Pharmacists throughout their training. This new role will be integral to our medicines management team and involve working to provide a safe medication service as well as innovatively managing our patients with long term conditions as part of our multi-disciplinary team.

Rutland is consistently voted in the top 3 best places to live in the UK. Local leisure pursuits are plentiful and schooling is highly regarded in both the local state and private sector.