Location
Ipswich
Department
Barrack Lane Medical Centre
Advertising Salary
DOE
Function
Pharmacist
Careers Site Advertising End Date
03 Jan 2025
Vacancy
8625
About the Role
Barrack Lane Medical Centre is looking to welcome a qualified and experienced clinical pharmacist into our busy practice, to play a full and active role within our multi-disciplinary team.  The role is offered on a full-time basis for 32 hours a week over four days.   Although you will be employed by Barrack Lane and Ivry Street PCN you will be based at Barrack Lane. 
 
In this role, you will provide expertise in clinical medicine management and address public health and social needs of the patients in the GP practice. The service provided will include working with patients to review and manage medications.  You will remain up to date with current guidance and cascade guidance to the clinical team and provide training for clinical and non-clinical staff with regard to medicine management. You will also play a leading role in clinical governance, audit and research within the practice.
Key responsibilities include:
  • Practicing and developing an advanced medicines management role
  • Working directly and independently with your patients
  • Diagnosing problems and prescribing treatment within your competencies
  • Working with ICB medicines management team to develop, implement and monitor use of formularies, Optimize medication optimisation tool and cost effective prescribing.
  • Managing practice formularies to improve the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of prescribing
  • Leading on where changes in evidence require changes in prescribing across patient population e.g. where a drug is withdrawn or indications change
  • Managing additions/change of medication from discharge/hospital letters
  • Working with the practice team to deliver repeat prescription reviews — especially for care home residents, people prescribed poly-pharmacy and frail older people. To be performed in the best setting for each patient.
  • Actioning all MHRA alerts
  • Supporting the team with appropriate advice where there are medication shortages
  • Working with the practice team to perform medication and risk assessment searches and audits
  • Being the point of contact for the practice for all medicines-related queries from healthcare professionals and patients
  • Working with ICB provided pharmacy technicians in data extraction analysis and implementation.
  • Assisting in monitoring costs and budgets
  • Processing hospital letters for safe filing – forwarding only those that a GP really needs to see
  • Keeping accurate and complete patient records
  • Pathology results - triage and analysis
  • Reducing inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review
  • Recognising priorities when problem-solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate. Is able to recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary.
  • Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the organisation and their role to patient care.
Please see the attached job description for further details.
About the Candidate
You will be a qualified pharmacist with strong experience within primary care and have the following skills and qualifications:
  • Completion of a degree in pharmacy and registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council;
  • Post-qualification experience in pharmacy (hospital, primary care or community), or working towards obtaining this;
  • Qualified independent prescriber, or working towards this;
  • Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS);
  • Awareness of the breadth of common acute and long-term conditions that are likely to be seen in a general medical practice;
  • Ability to demonstrate general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas;
  • Ability to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general care plans for patients with long-term conditions;
  • Ability to demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision as an individuals;
  • Ability to recognise priorities when problem-solving and identify deviations from normal patterns, referring to seniors or GPs with confidence, when appropriate;
  • Ability to follow legal, ethical, professional and organisational policies, procedures and codes of conduct;
  • Ability to assist patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidance;
  • Non-judgemental attitude and ability to be flexible and adaptable;
  • Self-motivated with excellent communication skills;
  • Understand the need for patient confidentiality.

About Us
Barrack Lane is a busy practice in the town centre of Ipswich, Suffolk.  We have a practice population of over 20,000 patients.  The practice is based on two sites, the main surgery in the centre of the town, and a branch surgery at Stoke Park. 

Our clinical team is made up of GP partners, salaried GPs, advanced nurse practitioners, advanced care practitioners, dietician, paramedics, physicians associate, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and a practice nursing team and HCAs.  This team is supported by a strong administrative, coding and care-navigating team.

Barrack Lane is part of a PCN (Primary Care Network) with Ivry Street Medical Centre, in Ipswich, and the two practices cover a population of 32,000 patients.  The PCN allows the practices to share resources and offer an enhanced service to our patients.  The PCN employs care co-ordinators and social prescribers to work with patients, especially our vulnerable patients, to help them to access the best care.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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