Pharmacy Lead

Are you passionate about medicines management and improving patient outcomes? As our Pharmacy Lead, you'll be at the heart of our Practice, guiding and mentoring the Pharmacy team while sharing your expertise to support GPs and the wider practice. You'll lead on best-practice prescribing, audits, and quality improvement initiatives, helping to shape and develop the pharmacy function to deliver optimal care for every patient.

This is a great opportunity to influence, innovate, and make a tangible difference across the Practice.

• Medicines reconciliation and repeat prescription management, implementing changes in line with local and national guidance and responding to medicine shortages.
• Undertaking medication reviews, including Structured Medication Reviews, face to face, by telephone and remotely, ensuring safe and effective care for patients with chronic conditions. Proactively managing complex polypharmacy, particularly in the elderly, care home residents, patients with multiple co-morbidities, and those with learning disabilities or autism.
• Clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas and support chronic disease management through both direct and remote consultations.
• Provide expert advice to colleagues on prescribing issues, new guidelines, shared care protocols, supply problems, restrictions and contraindications, promoting safe, evidence-based and cost-effective prescribing.
• Support medicines management within our managed care home.
• Support and, where appropriate, lead on QOF, enhanced services, IIF and local prescribing quality schemes.
• Identifies and implement improvements in medication safety, monitoring and prescribing processes, and lead the development and review of internal medicine policies.
• Liaise with community pharmacies, work closely with and support the Dispensary Lead.
• Manages, mentor and develop the Clinical Pharmacy team while driving the ongoing growth of the Clinical Pharmacy service within the practice.

Montgomery House Surgery is a well-established teaching and training practice, serving a diverse population of approximately 16,000 patients in and around Bicester. We have a strong commitment to education and professional development and have supported GP training for many years.

Each of our 10 Salaried GPs and GP Partners manages a diverse patient list with a broad spectrum of healthcare needs, delivering high-quality, person-centred care with a focus on continuity of care. We offer all appointments as either face to face or telephone consultations, and work on a pre-bookable model to facilitate the development of relationships with named GPs.

Summary

Leading across the practice in effective medicines management and best practice prescribing, as well as audit and quality improvement work, our Pharmacy Lead shares pharmacy expertise to support GPs and the whole practice to effect optimal patient care. This role is integral to the practice, leading and mentoring the pharmacy team and progressing and developing the pharmacy function throughout the practice.

Core duties and responsibilities

• Medicines reconciliation and repeat prescription management, including implementing changes in medicines in line with local and national guidance or shortages
• Undertaking medication reviews, including Structured Medication Reviews with patients both face to face and telephone with patients and remotely ensuring best practice care management for patients with chronic diseases proactively managing complex polypharmacy, especially in the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities people with learning disabilities
• Clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas
• Supporting the management of chronic disease - both remote and patient facing
• Inform and advise colleagues as relevant about ongoing prescribing issues, new guidelines (national and local), new products, secondary care protocols, manufacturing and supply problems, new prescribing restrictions, or contraindications
• Take a central role advising and supporting prescribers in following local formulary and shared care protocols, promoting cost effective prescribing
• Support the prescribing and management of medicines in our managed care home
• Support and, where appropriate lead, on QOF, enhanced service delivery, IIF and local prescribing quality scheme
• Identify, develop and implement change across the practice in relation to medication management, safety, monitoring and prescribing
• Lead Help in development and maintain maintenance of internal policies and processes relating to medicines, medication monitoring and prescribing
• Liaison with community pharmacies
• Work with and support the Dispensary Lead as appropriate
• Manage, mentor and support the education and training of the clinical pharmacy team
• Lead on progression and development of clinical pharmacy service within the practice

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