Prescribing Clinical Pharmacist for Seacroft PCN Job Leeds area,England UK,Healthcare

Prescribing Clinical Pharmacist for Seacroft PCN

To support the South & East Leeds General Practice Group Practices with all aspects of medicines optimisation. The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines optimisation across the PCN. This will include structured medication reviews with direct patient contact and may include contributing to:
Management of long-term conditions Minor illness Management of medicines on transfer of care Reviewing systems for safer prescribing Contributing to repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation Actioning acute prescription requests Addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients Contributing to achievement of QOF and locally commissioned quality improvement schemes Undertaking clinical audit The specifics of the role in each PCN will be worked up between the post-holder, the PCN and SEL GP Group.

The post holder will be supported by existing practice employed pharmacists within the PCN (where these exist), a GP clinical mentor and the head of clinical pharmacy for SEL GP Group. They will also engage with pharmacy colleagues across Leeds for peer support. The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber, if that qualification is not already held, and will be required to enrol on the General Practice Pharmacist Training Pathway from CPPE unless an equivalent qualification is already held or exemption is agreed by CPPE.

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duties and responsibilities (Please note this is a list of options, it is not exhaustive, which options are deployed will be decided by the individual PCN, in conjunction with the clinical pharmacist and SEL GP Group). It is however mandated by NHS England that this role is patient-facing in nature.

Patient facing Clinical Medication Review Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring. These reviews could be cohort based, in care homes, polypharmacy or any other area required by the PCN, within the pharmacists competence. Home visits may be required.

Medicines quality improvement Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the PCN, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the relevant practice team. Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups

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

Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments Managing caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence. Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate.

Patient facing medicines support Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.

Telephone medicines support Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.

Management of medicines at change of care setting Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospital or admission to intermediate care or 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).

Medicine information to practice staff and patients Answer relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other network staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines. Suggest and recommend solutions. Providing follow up for patients to…