Clinical Pharmacist​/Senior Clinical Pharmacist

Are you apharmacist eager to take on a new challenge that expands your clinical expertise and supports the delivery of outstanding patient care? We are looking for an enthusiastic, forward-thinking, motivated pharmacist committed toapplying their pharmaceutical knowledge and skills to improve patient care in General Practice.

This is aunique opportunity to join our expanding Pharmacy team to serve the population at South Hardwick Primary Care Network.

You will bepart of a dynamic team, committed to develop the role of a clinical pharmacistin an expanding field of General Practice to its maximum potential to deliverperson-centred, coordinated care across the health system.

This post wouldrequire both, to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facingrole, but also individual clinical decision making around your caseload of patients.

Theobjective of the Pharmacist is to contribute to high quality, person-centred care across South Hardwick Primary Care Network by delivering expert clinical pharmacy services within

General Practice.

Thepost holder will work within their clinical competencies, to strengthenmultidisciplinary working through patientfacingclinical decision making,comprehensive medication reviews, and support for chronic disease management,polypharmacy, and PCN contractual priorities.

Thepost holder will enhance medicines optimisation, respond to prescription andmedication queries, and provide clinical leadership to improve systems,quality, and safety across practices.

South Hardwick PCN is a group of 8 forward thinking and progressive practices (population 69,372) who have developed a friendly and effective working relationship with one another. We are committed to working collaboratively to improve outcomes for patients and sustaining General Practice.

South Hardwick is a mix of former mining communities, suburbs, and rural communities to the south of Chesterfield. Your employer would be North Eastern Derbyshire Healthcare Ltd, and you would be entitled to NHS pension.

We have a well-established Pharmacy team of six Clinical Pharmacists and seven Pharmacy Technicians.

Reviewpatients with single or multiple medical problems integrating into existing

General practices teams long term conditions clinics (e.g. Hypertension,Diabetes, Heart disease, Asthma.).

Review medications for these patients assessing on-going need for each medicine, areview of monitoring needs and to support patients ensuring they get the bestuse of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation)

Undertakeclinical medication reviews of specific groups of patients identified aspriority, such as, medications more likely to cause harm, severe frailty,potentially addictive medications, Atrial Fibrillation anticoagulationreviews, gastroprotection reviews and others identified by the practice aspriority.

Domiciliarymedication reviews(houseboundor care home residents)

Undertakeclinical medication reviews with these patients, liaison with the Communitysupport teams if necessary

Patient facing /telephone medicines support

Provide patients advise with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicinesin the practice.

Medicineinformation to practice staff and patients

Answersrelevant medicine-relatedenquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g.community pharmacy). Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing followup for patients to monitor the effect of any changes

Un-plannedhospital admissions

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

Signposting

Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time e.g. pathologyresults, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviewsetc

Clinical supervision and support

To Pharmacy technicians and Foundation pharmacists within the team

Repeatprescribing

Support therepeat prescriptions system in practices, reviewing medicines reaching reviewdates and flagging up those needing a blood test or a review. Ensure patient shave appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.

Risk stratification

Identification of practice and PCN priorities through data analysing and prioritise patients to review.

To usemedicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision-making

Servicedevelopment

Contributewith pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathway sand patient information leaflets).

Medicines Quality Improvement

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

Support andhelp the technical team implement changes to medicines that result from MHRAalerts,…