JOB OVERVIEW

Modality Partnership East Surrey Division has a full-time vacancy for a Prescribing Pharmacist. The postholder will be a high-performing Prescribing Pharmacist delivering a high-quality, patient-centred pharmacy service and providing targeted medication reviews to ensure safe, optimum and cost-effective treatments for Modality East Surrey Medical Practice and the wider Partnership. The postholder will liaise with ARRS pharmacists and pharmacy techs to ensure that any project work delivered by their team is aligned with the practice’s needs. We are seeking dedicated postholders to join our team and who can display our CARE values: Commitment, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. Salary for this role is £47,158 - £52,000 per annum WTE depending on experience.
This job is suitable for individuals who are career driven and have a passion for working in an agile manner, implementing solutions, delivering key organisational priorities and who are committed to make real changes to the health care services provided within Primary Care to improve patient care.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Please refer to the supporting documents section to retrieve the JD detailing the core responsibilities of this role.
To work within GP practice working closely with GPs, other practice staff and members of the primary healthcare team in developing own skills to manage patient care and support high quality, safe, cost effective, rational and evidence-based prescribing.

EXPERIENCE:

Relevant experience in a healthcare setting as a Pharmacist Relevant experience as a Pharmacist Prescribe
Experience in a broad range of healthcare settings including management and clinical pharmacy activities
Experience of audit, service evaluation and development
Validated experience in clinical specialism
Experience of collaborative working in multidisciplinary settings
Experience of operational management (even if only of an element of a service or when deputising)

KNOWLEDGE:

Up to date clinical knowledge of pharmaceutical practice and specialist area
Leadership skills
Excellent written and verbal skills with ability to communicate complex information to patients and colleagues
Analytical and problem solving skills
Have the ability to work and travel across various settings within a geographical area to meet the requirements of the post
Computer literate

SKILLS:

In-depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence- based healthcare.
An understanding of general practice and challenges they currently face
An understanding of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g. patients)
Good IT skills
Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £47,158.00-£52,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Health & wellbeing programme

Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 18/08/202

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

The role is an all-rounded, hands-on Clinical Prescribing Pharmacist role; the postholder will need to confidently evidence and utilise key skills such as effective communication, and the ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas. The postholder will work in collaboration with the practice and the National Modality Business Support Team to deliver innovative ways of working to meet the strategic aims of the organisation.
The role is not your regular 9am-5pm job and is not a pure pharmacist patient facing role; the job requires innovation, flexibility, and commitment and the postholder will be required to work resourcefully as part of the team to ensure tasks are completed.

KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

· Medication reviews, computer based or clinics for more complex patients, first source of information for patients about medication.
· Medication and treatment reconciliation – systems for patients transferred out of and back into the practice, assess unplanned admissions and systems to prevent further unplanned admissions.
· Practice formulary maintain.
· QOF – ensure data connectivity and proactive organisation to deliver maximum QOF for the practice. Regular QOF audits. Improve risk stratification of pathways and improve service delivery.
· Medicine management e.g., polypharmacy.
· Medicines optimisation, support joint goal setting with patients and appropriate treatment selection to support better medicines experience. Reducing waste and improving outcomes. Follow up identified patient groups targeting better concordance leading to improved outcomes.
· Monitoring of long-term meds e.g. lithium/amiodarone, shared care medications and blood results.
· Monitoring and managing repeat prescription wastage including patient adherence.
· Optimising medication/titration e.g. HF.
· Work with clinical team members on long-term conditions (Diabetes, Asthma, COPD, Depression, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Hypertension, Arthritis, Pain, Heart Failure, Shared care drug monitoring).
· Manage patients with more complex long-term conditions such as “difficult” hypertension, compliance with lipid-lowering therapy.
· See patients with minor ailments, common conditions as routine/emergency appointments.
· Assess and issue day to day acute medication requests as appropriate.
· Address day to day medication queries.
· Undertake repeat medication reviews and reauthorisation as appropriate.
· Review and load repeat medication for new patient registrations.
· Identify and support patients where concordance issues.
· Liaise with community pharmacists to solve common day to day prescribing problems like preparation availability/alternatives etc.
· Liaise with community pharmacists for the setting up, monitoring and updating of all patients on NOMAD trays.
· Liaise with community nurses and prepare MARS sheets as needed and support practice anticipatory prescribing process in liaison with community nurses and Community Pharmacy.
· Liaising with care homes and community nurses re dressings.
· Responsibility for lithium and antipsychotic drug monitoring and review of blood results.
· Review the prescribing for patients with multi-morbidity and polypharmacy.
· Report and follow up patient drug safety/adverse reactions.
· Support patient self-care and medicines management and concordance through education.
· Support staff education and development.
· Support development of local services to improve workflow within the practice.
· Work with clinical team members on long-term conditions (Diabetes, Asthma, COPD, Depression, Heart failure drug titration.
· See and advise patients presenting with minor ailments presenting in surgery as appropriate to skills and competences.
· Work with team to implement and maintain Practice formulary in longer term.
· EOL meds management.
· Development: support development of local services to improve workflow within the practice.
· Service advancement; deliver specific disease management clinic through personal development and independent prescribing.

NB: THIS JOB DESCRIPTION OUTLINES THE KEY DUTIES THAT ARE EXPECTED OF YOU WITHIN THE ROLE OF BUSINESS SECRETARIAT ALTHOUGH IS NOT AN EXHAUSTIVE LIST. IT MAY BE AMENDED IN LINE WITH EXPERIENCE, BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS AND AS A RESULT OF ANY FUTURE ORGANISATIONAL CHANGE.

You will love this job if you have a passion for integrating clinical pharmacy skills into primary care, and you are driven to find and implement solutions to improve the day to day working environment. You will learn more because you will improve the way we work from the ground up whist working closely with leadership teams to influence service improvement.
If you feel this is the ideal career advancing opportunity for you and you want to rise to the challenge of this opportunity, we welcome an application for you to join our growing team of likeminded people.
Please note: Modality Partnership reserves the right to close this vacancy at any point during the recruitment stage.