Clinical Pharmacist - 30 hours per week

The main duties and responsibilities to be undertaken by the post holder may include any or the entire following list. Duties may be varied from time to time under the direction of the partners and senior management team and will be dependent on current and evolving practice workload and staffing levels. • See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma). Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicines optimisation or actions as appropriate and commensurate with individual level of skill and competence • Undertake structured clinical medication reviews with patients, including Care homes and make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicines optimisation or actions as appropriate and commensurate with individual level of skill and competence. Work with care home staff to improve the safety of medicines ordering and administration • Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines as appropriate and commensurate with individual level of skill and competence • Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines, as appropriate and commensurate with individual level of skill and competence • Answer relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes • Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmission's through audit and individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high risk patient groups • Reconcile medicines following transfer of care including 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. 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) • 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 • 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 • Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets) • Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making at PCN and GP Practice Population level • Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs and feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team at practice and PCN level,Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance • Monitor Network prescribing against the local health economy's 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), Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system. Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance, Provide practice and PCN level information to contribute to the safe and efficient use of medicines • Provide education and training to primary healthcare team(s) on therapeutics and medicines optimisation • Work with the general practice teams to ensure the PCN is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved • Support public health campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public. To support the PCN to improve and manage population health, focusing on reducing health inequalities and increasing healthy life expectancy Job description Job responsibilities The main duties and responsibilities to be undertaken by the post holder may include any or the entire following list. Duties may be varied from time to time under the direction of the partners and senior management team and will be dependent on current and evolving practice workload and staffing levels. • See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma). Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicines optimisation or actions as appropriate and commensurate with individual level of skill and competence • Undertake structured clinical medication reviews with patients, including Care homes and make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicines optimisation or actions as appropriate and commensurate with individual level of skill and competence. Work with care home staff to improve the safety of medicines ordering and administration • Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines as appropriate and commensurate with individual level of skill and competence • Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines, as appropriate and commensurate with individual level of skill and competence • Answer relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes • Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmission's through audit and individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high risk patient groups • Reconcile medicines following transfer of care including 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. 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) • 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 • 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 • Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets) • Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making at PCN and GP Practice Population level • Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs and feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team at practice and PCN level,Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance • Monitor Network prescribing against the local health economy's 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), Assist practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system. Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance, Provide practice and PCN level information to contribute to the safe and efficient use of medicines • Provide education and training to primary healthcare team(s) on therapeutics and medicines optimisation • Work with the general practice teams to ensure the PCN is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved • Support public health campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public. To support the PCN to improve and manage population health, focusing on reducing health inequalities and increasing healthy life expectancy