Job summary
KIWY PCN are delighted to offer this exciting post of Clinical Pharmacist under the Additional Roles Reimbursement Scheme. You will be based within Woodstock Surgery joining the existing 4 pharmacists and pharmacy technician across our Primary Care Network. The successful applicant will become fully integrated within Woodstock's primary health care team but will also be part of the wider PCN Pharmacy Team. You will be expected to undertake structured medication reviews as well as being fully involved with the day to day medication management within the practice including medicines reconciliation. You will be expected to help the PCN achieve prescribing targets for QOF, IIF and the Prescribing Incentive Scheme.

The appointed applicant will be a prescriber or be working towards prescriber status, taking full advantage of the CPPE training pathways.You must have experience in delivering clinical pharmacy services in a patient-facing health care setting ideally within primary care or urgent care.

We value experience in either, or both, of community and hospital pharmacy and are seeking someone with enthusiasm, initiative and a desire to work with patients.

Main duties of the job

• Prescribing Systems and Policies
• Patient Care and Engagement
• Medication Review and Optimisation
• Medicines Reconciliation
• Medicines Information and Education
• Chronic Disease Medicines Management

About us
Kidlington, Islip, Woodstock and Yarnton PCN is a network of four medium-sized, partnership practices, serving over 36,000 patients across Oxfordshire. We are an established PCN using excellent communication and co-operative working to build on existing positive relationships.

This particular role will be based in Woodstock, which is 8 miles north of Oxford on the edge of the Cotswolds. It is a historic town adjacent to Blenheim Palace, home of the Duke of Marlborough and birthplace of Winston Churchill.Woodstock surgery is a mainly rural practice with about 9,500 patients, 6,000 of whom live outside the town.

We are a team-orientated, patient-focused, learning-centred practice and are seeking candidates with a pro-active approach, who are keen to embrace the opportunities and challenges of working within general practice.

Job responsibilities
Prescribing Systems and Policies

• To work with the GP Leads and Business Manager to review, develop and implement prescribing policies and strategies for the whole practice.
• To suggest and design audits in relation to prescribing targets, implementation of locality policies, Quality Outcomes Framework (QOF) and IIF

Medication Review and Optimisation:

• To respond to internal practice queries to amend prescriptions, re-authorise repeats, clarify doses, clarify products, give appropriate alternatives when availability is an issue.
• To discuss specific patient and prescribing issues (e.g. complicated regimes/polypharmacy, compliance difficulties, multiple adverse effects, medication reduction regimes) with other clinicians as necessary.
• To undertake structured medication reviews
• To discuss medication issues with patients as needed and appropriate e.g. adverse effects/interactions, overdose/inadvertent ingestion, OTC remedies, internal queries from staff and queries from care homes.
• To complete DTA (direction to administer) forms for district nurses for GPs to authorise.

Medicines Reconciliation

• To review secondary care requests for new medication (as communicated by discharge summaries, outpatient letters, etc.) and raise any queries with the relevant GP and discuss how to respond when inappropriate prescribing requests arise.
• To review and continue repeat medications for new patients who have just registered with the practice and suggest GP medication review where appropriate.

Medicines Information/Education

• To monitor and inform colleagues as relevant about ongoing prescribing issues, e.g. new guidelines (national and local), new products being asked for by secondary care, manufacturing and supply problems, new prescribing restrictions or contraindications, and individual and systematic errors made by colleagues.
• To advise on cost effective prescribing and prescribing budget issues.
• To keep the prescribing folder on the practice intranet up to date, with administrative support.

Chronic Disease Medicines Management

• According to experience and training working within the multidisciplinary team to assist with medical management of conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and asthma.

Teaching/training
You may be asked to contribute to the training of our PCN pharmacy technician, administrators and receptionists who deal with prescriptions. More informally, we all love to learn from each other and see sharing of expertise as integral to working in our GP practice.

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Experience of delivering clinical pharmacy services in a patient facing healthcare setting

Desirable

• Experience of working in primary care

Knowledge and skills
Essential

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to manage own time, workload and resources
• Ability and enthusiasm to provide patients with clear advice, education and support
• Experience in developing collaborative working relationships with colleagues and patients to support service delivery

Qualifications
Essential

• Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) Degree or equivalent qualification
• Registered Pharmacist with current General Pharmaceutical Council Registration

Desirable

• Independent Prescriber qualification or on pathway towards completing this.

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.