Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

1. Clinical Practice & Home Visiting

• Autonomous Consultations: Manage a clinical caseload using face-to-face, telephone, and digital triage pathways.
• Domiciliary Care: Undertake acute and routine home visits for housebound or complex patients.
• Clinical Assessment: Conduct detailed history-taking and physical examinations of undifferentiated conditions.
• Diagnosis & Management: Formulate accurate diagnosis and treatment plans for acute illness and chronic diseases.
• Independent Prescribing: Prescribe safely and effectively within current legal and local frameworks.
• Investigations: Order, interpret, and action diagnostic tests including pathology and radiology.
• Escalation: Make referrals to secondary care, community teams, or arrange emergency admissions when required.

2. Care Quality & Administration

• Documentation: Maintain accurate, comprehensive electronic patient records using EMIS Web.
• Coding: Ensure effective use of SNOMED CT coding for clinical information.
• QOF & Targets: Support the practice in hitting targets related to QOF and local health contracts.
• Audits: Participate in and lead clinical audits to maintain evidence-based local guidelines.

3. Leadership & Education

• MDT Collaboration: Work with GPs, Outreach Team and District Nurses, to coordinate care pathways.
• Mentorship: Provide clinical supervision and support to practice nurses and junior staff.
• Professional Development: Maintain professional revalidation in line with NMC standards.

This job description is intended as a guide to the main responsibilities of the post and is not an exhaustive list of duties. The post holder may be required to undertake other duties appropriate to the role, in line with the needs of the practice and service development.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Current professional registration with the NMC, HCPC or other relevant professional body.
• Holds the recognised qualifications and credentials required to meet the NHS England Advanced Practice framework and be eligible for an Advanced Practice Digital Badge (where applicable to the role).
• Master's level qualification in Advanced Clinical Practice (or equivalent)
• Independent Prescribing qualification.
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable

• Master's degree in Advanced Clinical Practice.
• Teaching, mentorship or assessor qualification.

Experience

Essential

• Experience working as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) or Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) within Primary Care, Urgent Care or Emergency Care
• Experience of autonomous clinical assessment and decision making.
• Experience managing acute and minor illness presentations.
• Experience managing frail/elderly patients and those with long-term conditions.
• Experience of multidisciplinary team working.

Desirable

• Previous experience in General Practice.
• Experience using EMIS Web.
• Experience undertaking care home rounds.
• Experience of telephone and online triage.

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Wetmore Road Surgery

Address

12 Wetmore Road

Burton-on-trent

Staffordshire

DE14 1SL

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.wetmoreroadsurgery.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Description Practice Pharmacist

Title: Practice Pharmacist

Responsible (clinically) to: GP

Responsible (administratively) to: Practice Manager

Job Summary

The main purpose of the role is to deliver clinical pharmacy support to Wetmore Road Surgery through management and interventions of your own patient caseload. You will work as part of the general practice team to resolve day-to-day medicine issues and deliver direct patient care. This includes managing long-term conditions, specific advice for those on multiple medications and better access to health checks.

Key Responsibilities

To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication review

Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).

Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both.

Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups.

Update and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy. Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review to the GP

Undertake Clinical Medication Reviews and Structured Medication Reviews with patients, implement required actions or produce recommendations for the GP on prescribing and monitoring as appropriate.

Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.

Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advise on treatment pathways)

Work with the Practice Manager and GPs to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. Undertake risk assessment and management and ensure compliance with medicines legislation.

To contribute to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, and adult immunisation programmes.

Answers all medicinerelated enquiries from GPs, other practice staff and patients with queries about medicines.

Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.

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

Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.

Monitor practice prescribing against the GMMMG RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs).

Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance.

Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.

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

Support the practice in adopting local and national medication safety strategies such as PINCER.

Communication

Demonstrate sensitive communication styles to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment.

Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating.

Anticipate barriers to communication and take action to improve communication.

Estimate and maintain effective communication with individuals and groups within the practice environment and with external stakeholders.

Act as an advocate when representing patients and colleagues.

Delivering a Quality Service

Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct

Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures.

Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality.

Deliver care according to NICE guidelines and evidence-based care.

Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation.

Participate in the maintenance of quality governance systems and processes across the practice.

Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and team, implementing improvements where required.

Collaborate on improving the quality of healthcare in partnership with other clinical teams, responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate.

Evaluate the patients response to healthcare provision and the effectiveness of care.

Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation.

Participate in the management and review of patient complaints, and identify learning from clinical incidents and near-miss events using a structured framework (eg root-cause analysis).

Assess the impact of policy implementation on care delivery.

Understand and apply legal policy that supports the identification of vulnerable and abused children and adults, being aware of statutory child/vulnerable adult health procedures and local guidance.

Leadership Personal and People Development

Take responsibility for own development, learning and performance including participating in clinical supervision and acting as a positive role model

Support the development of others in order to maximise potential

Actively promote the workplace as a learning environment, encouraging everyone to learn from each other and from external good practice

Participate in planning and implementing changes within the area of care and responsibility, specifically, community care, learning disabilities and dementia care.

Contribute and participate in the development of local guidelines, protocols and standards

Ensure awareness of sources of support and guidance (eg PALS), and provide information in an acceptable format to all patients, recognising any difficulties and referring where appropriate

Team Working

Understand own role and scope, and identify how this may develop over time.

Work as an effective and responsible team member, supporting others and exploring the mechanisms to develop new ways of working.

Delegate clearly and appropriately, adopting the principles of safe practice and assessing competence.

Ensure clear referral mechanisms are in place to meet patient needs.

Prioritise own workload and ensure effective time-management strategies are embedded within the culture of the team.

Work effectively with others to clearly define values, direction and policies impacting upon care delivery.

Participate in team activities that create opportunities to improve patient care.

Participate in and support local projects as agreed with the practice management team.

Management of Risk

Manage and assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients.

Monitor work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and free from hazards and conform to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines.

Apply policies that reduce environmental health risks, are culturally sensitive and increase access to healthcare for all.

Participate in the local implementation strategies that are aligned to the values and culture of general practice.

Utilising Information

Use technology as an aid to management in planning, implementation and monitoring, presenting and communicating information.

Review and process data using accurate Snomed codes to ensure easy and accurate retrieval for monitoring and audit processes.

Manage information searches using the internet and local library databases, for example, the retrieval of relevant information for patients on their condition.

Collate, analyse and present clinical data and information to the team using appropriate charts and/or graphs to enhance care.

Learning and Development

Act as mentor for more junior staff and students, assessing competence against set standards as requested and if appropriately qualified.

Disseminate learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments.

Assess own learning needs and undertake learning as appropriate.

Make effective use of learning opportunities within and outside the workplace, evaluating their effectiveness and feeding back relevant information.

Provide an educational role to patients, carers, families and colleagues in an environment that facilitates learning.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
• Masters Degree in Pharmacy (MPharm)or equivalent

Desirable

• Independent prescriber

Experience

Desirable

• Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience
• Experience of working in a primary care setting

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Wetmore Road Surgery

Address

12 Wetmore Road

Burton-on-trent

Staffordshire

DE14 1SL

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.wetmoreroadsurgery.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)