Vineta Jain

I am a diligent healthcare professional and believe that through my experience I have amassed a range of skills which enables me to excel in any working environment. I'm a self-motivated team player who always works with the ethos of providing optimal patient care.

Locum - Morph Clinical Services

(2024-05)

• Medicines Optimisation and therapy reviews in the following areas: Respiratory, Diabetes, Bone Health
• Dermatology

Independent Prescribing Manager - National Pharmacist Association

(2024-07)

• Working within the Learning and Development team
• Providing Clinical support and resources to community pharmacist Independent prescribers
• Liaising with NHS IP operational group for pathfinders

Primary care Network Clinical Pharmacist in GP Practice - Bushey Medical Centre

(2022-05 - 2024-06)

• Working closely with Care homes for medication reviews
• Specialising in Asthma and COPD clinics
• Blood test results review
• Using DOCMAN to review discharge letters, outpatient letters and prescription requests
• Structure medication reviews
• Responding to adhoc prescription enquiries

Clinical Remote Pharmacist - Babylon Health now known as eMed Health

(2020-02 - 2024-09)

Digital healthcare service

• Conducting digital consultations
• Medicines optimisation during consultations
• Ensuring that QOF targets are met by appropriate coding using SystmOne
• Providing outcome of complex queries to patients for both private and NHS based patients
• Minor ailments ranging across a broad spectrum

Primary care network Clinical pharmacist - Healthsense

(2019-10 - 2022-03)

7 practices

• Clinical audits across 8 practices
• Implementing processes for high risk drug monitoring
• Providing clinical knowledge on medicines optimisation and quality improvement (including QOF)
• Presentations on peer reviews across the network
• CPPE Primary care pharmacy education pathway
• Medication reviews as part of the DES contract - including chronic disease management, repeat prescription management and structured medication reviews
• Care home medication reviews
• Asthma reviews face to face and on telephone
• During consultations I optimise treatment by adjusting doses, switching or stopping therapy within my clinical competency
• Experience in making independent decisions

Clinical Practice Based Pharmacist - Northwick

(2019-05 - 2019-12)

Northwick surgery mission statement is 'Every person matters'

• Supporting patients and the practice(s) with chronic disease management
• Managing prescription processes and medication queries
• Prescribing during medication reviews and during medicines reconciliation post hospital discharges
• Providing clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement (including QOF)
• COPD and asthma led clinics including managing medications titration and initiation of medications
• Hypertension management clinics
• Conducting audits on Oral nutrition supplements
• Reviewing letters received via DOCMAN

PCN Pharmacist role - Potters bar

(2019-08 - 2019-09)

Helping the surgery by carrying out the PCN pharmacist role in the interim before their new PCN pharmacist started by working across three practices in the PCN.

• Medication reviews
• Helping the network meet their QOF requirements
• Telephone consultations
• Prescribing prescriptions with queries in order to reduce the workload for patients
• Minor ailment queries

Respiratory Medicine Pharmacist - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

(2019-05 - 2019-07)

Project based respiratory pharmacist focusing on quality improvement initiatives for the respiratory medicine directorate

• Working on clinical audits for asthma and liaising with local GP practices to improve patient care

General Medicine Pharmacist - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

(2018-07 - 2019-04)

• Drug history and reviewing drug charts
• Ensuring drug charts are clinically appropriate
• Counselling patients on the ward on new medications started and checking compliance and adherence
• Making appropriate and relevant interventions with the multidisciplinary team
• Communicating with ward staff to ensure swift discharges

Independent Prescriber - Colorectal Surgery, Band 8 - Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

(2018-07 - 2019-01)

Prescribing pharmacist within the Colorectal surgical team responsible for discharge planning for complex GI surgery patients

• Attend consultant & SpR daily ward rounds giving me the opportunity to review and raise concerns with medications as well as prescribe for decisions made during the round
• Responsible for reviewing pre-operative medications as the patient recovers
• Ensure there is effective communication with GP's when prescribing discharge medications to ensure they know of any changes or monitoring required
• Part of my role is to also ensure every patient has a Venous thromboembolism assessment, to review acute pain management, antibiotic prescribing
• Once the ward pharmacist has carried out the medicines reconciliation, I prescribe the medications on admission for patients
• I often help clerk patients in with other members of the multi-disciplinary team and prescribe for them
• Part of the role requires that I prescribe bowel preparation for those going for surgery that require it

GP Practice Clinical Prescribing Pharmacist, Band 8 - Hollymoor Medical Centre

(2018-01 - 2018-06)

Hollymoor Medical Centre offers the highest standard of patient-centred healthcare. Running specialist clinics in the management of chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes and offer a wide variety of other medical services including antenatal and postnatal care, minor surgery, childhood vaccinations and well-person check-ups.

• Medication reviews, hypertension clinics, asthma reviews, contraception pill checks, minor ailments
• My role as an independent prescriber means I was able to prescribe where it is appropriate and within my competency
• Aided GP's with medication queries, which helps their workload and thus working as part of a multidisciplinary team with nurses, HCA and reception staff
• Triaged patients via telephone clinics
• Competent in using the EMIS system and DOCMAN
• Conducted clinical audits, helped in QOF savings
• Summarising and writing local guidelines to be used within the practice

Rotational Pharmacist, Band 7 - Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham

(2013-03 - 2018-01)

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham is an NHS and military hospital in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, situated very close to the University of Birmingham. The hospital, which cost £545 million to construct, opened in June 2010, replacing the previous Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Selly Oak Hospital.

• I have been based mainly on the wards and have covered urology, general medicine, neurology, trauma and orthopaedics, CDU, cardiology, cardiothoracic, oncology and palliative care as well as spending 6 months in clinical trials
• I have been able to consult with different teams of doctors on several occasions in order to ensure safe and appropriate use of medications
• This included working alongside advanced nurse practitioners on the cardiothoracic ward
• I clinically checked patient' drug charts to assess the appropriateness of the medications prescribed, for example the doses and any interactions
• During my neurology rotation I attended the IVIg meetings where the Consultants discussed each patient who had received this treatment and its effectiveness
• In my most recent rotation in oncology I have successful completed training in the clinical screening chemotherapy prescriptions
• Aside from the various clinical activities I have also taken part in dispensary duties too

Ward Based Pharmacist - Warwick Hospital

(2013-04 - 2013-07)

Warwick Hospital on Lakin Road in the northwest of Warwick, Warwickshire, England is run by South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust.

• Surgical and elderly care ward cover and dispensary duties
• Experience with JAC dispensing system and ICE blood results system

Pharmacist - Leicester General Hospital

(2013-03 - 2013-04)

Pharmacist, Band 6 - University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire

(2012-08 - 2013-02)