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Post Registration Foundation Pharmacist

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Cowbridge
3 days ago
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Cowbridge & Vale Medical Practice are looking to recruita newly qualified pharmacist or early career pharmacist to work alongside ourclinical team. The post holder will beenrolled in the Post-registration Foundation Pharmacist 2-year programme withHEIW and Cardiff University which includes a protected development day per weekfor the post holder which includes supervision from a practice supervisorpharmacist, pharmacist educational supervisor from Cardiff University and achosen designated prescribing practitioner (DPP) during the IP module. Moreinformation on the programme can be found Post-registrationfoundation pharmacist training programme - HEIW
Main duties of the job Main duties of the job
Clinical responsibilities
Undertake patient consultations
General medication and polypharmacy reviews
Long term conditions compliance, effectiveness, side effects, symptoms, recommending monitoring and changes to medication
Acute medication requests
Nursing home patients/Housebound patients
Providing advice to the clinical team regarding medication management
Liaising with community and health board pharmacists
Ensuring patients on shared care medications and high-risk medications have appropriate documentation in place and that these are adhered to with recommended monitoring
Developing care plans for health
Providing counselling and education relating to medication, including polypharmacy review and deprescribing
Identifying patients with poor compliance or high risk use for clinical review
Collecting data for audit purposes and in line with UHB incentive schemes.
Compiling and issuing acute and repeat prescriptions
Support the Practice Pharmacist in:
Reviewing guidance for pharmacists in general practice and recommending changes in practice
Develop policies and protocols for safe and effective use of medicines, delivering prudent healthcare
Direct contribution to enhanced service provision
Education & Training:
Contribute to education and training of the wider MDT
Support supervision to Foundation Trainee Pharmacists
Support supervision and contribute to providing meaningful experience to undergraduate pharmacist students
About us Cowbridge & Vale Medical Practice is based in a single site surgery in Cowbridge, in the heart of the Vale of Glamorgan. We have 3 GP Partners, two salaried GP, a Clinical Pharmacist, an Advanced Nurse Practitioners, a Nursing Assistant, cluster Pharmacist, Mental Health Liaison officer, Physiotherapist and a Phlebotomist. We have strong and supportive management, administration and reception teams.
We provide care for patients covering a wide rural area and are steadily increasing our patient numbers.
Job responsibilities The post holder is an early years pharmacist working under the supervision and guidance of an experienced pharmacist whilst undertaking a structured training programme.
To help to improve the quality and effectiveness of medicines management within the GP practice
To provide patient focussed, prudent healthcare
To promote medicines safety and review polypharmacy
To work as a core member of the pharmacy team, working effectively with other health and social care professionals delivering services to patients
To support with the education and training of other healthcare professionals, and in particular other members of the practice and prison pharmacy teams
ROLES AND responsibilities:
Responsibility for delivering a specialised clinical pharmacy service at Cowbridge & Vale Medical Practice
Patient Focused Roles
Responsible for undertaking systematic medication and polypharmacy reviews, which will take into account social and practical issues for the patient as well as clinical elements.
To provide medicines optimisation in chronic disease management e.g. heart failure, chronic pain management, AF, respiratory etc.
To develop pharmaceutical care plans for individual patients as appropriate e.g. targeting those with frequent admissions/exacerbations/frail elderly etc.
Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc.
Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.
To undertake medicines reconciliation following admission or discharge and patient moving into/out of care homes and those newly registered with the practice, following up medication related issues with the patient or other professionals.
To support public health and health promotion activities, including smoking cessation, administration of flu vaccinations, antibiotic awareness campaigns and screening events.
To resolve and action medication queries from practice staff and patients relating to prescription requests or problems identified through the repeat prescribing service.
To have direct patient contact which may include dealing with occasionally distressing or emotional circumstances, including contact and terminally ill patients and their relatives or carers.
To be accountable for own professional actions, in line with local, & national guidelines and medicines legislation.
Direct contribution to GMS contract performance, and other enhanced service provision (e.g. Shared care LES, Care home DES, anticoagulation LES).
Improving Medicines Management and Safety
To review clinical correspondence from secondary care to ensure recommendations to initiate new medicines adhere to the formulary and local guidance and take necessary action where appropriate.
To undertake clinical audit relating to medicines
To action requests for acute prescription requests in line with practice protocols
To undertake medicines re-authorisations and review as part of the repeat prescribing system
To ensure safe, evidence based and cost-effective prescribing in accordance with national and locally agreed standards and priorities, e.g. implementation of NICE guidelines, All Wales Medicines Strategy Group recommendations and Safety Agency alerts and warnings.
To support policies to improve GP practice medicines management services e.g. establish clear recall systems to meet monitoring requirements for drugs
To make recommendations on prescribing choices, budget expenditure and risk management where appropriate, without detriment to patient care
Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.
Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
Education and Communication
To provide professional and expert advice to GPs, nurses, practice staff and patients on all aspects of drug treatment (doses, monitoring, interactions, side-effects etc)
To develop and provide expert clinical advice to clinical meetings including educational sessions for the practice staff
To explore and implement ways to effectively educate and involve patients regarding their medicines
Participation in HEIW Post registration foundation programme, to include attainment of independent prescriber (IP) status by the end of the programme.
To support the education and training of other healthcare professionals in the practice, including trainee pharmacists, GP registrars and both pharmacy and medical undergraduates.
Partnership Working
To develop excellent professional links with relevant health and social care colleagues including community pharmacists, community resource and domiciliary care teams, care homes, carers, acute care colleagues etc.
To network with other practice-based pharmacists to share best practise
To work closely with health board medicines management teams to ensure awareness of local and national priorities and initiatives
To contribute to the delivery of cluster/collaborative and practice delivery plans.
Person Specification Qualifications Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
Registered with GPhC
Experience Experience in a range of clinical specialities
Experience of multidisciplinary working
Previous experience with general practice
Disclosure and Barring Service Check 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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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