PCN Clinical Pharmacist

Job summary

• NO VISA SPONSOR SHIPS ACCEPTED (WE ARE A FUNDED ORGANISATION)
• NO RECRUITEMENT AGENCIES
• Part-time post (3 days/24 hours per week)
• Immediate Start for this role

Bramley, Wortley, Middleton (BWM) PCN is seeking a Clinical Pharmacist to join our well established PCN pharmacy team. This is an exciting opportunity to join an innovative and supportive multi-disciplinary team. The post holder will be a pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, providing clinical support within the PCN and working as part of multi-disciplinary teams in general practice. In this role you will receive appropriate clinical supervision.

You will ensure practices integrate with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise the skills mix within teams, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload. Perform a patient facing role to include undertaking clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy in a variety of settings including the surgery, patient homes and residential care, and with a view to meeting demands of new work streams in primary care.

Provide support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice.

You will be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy and those with multiple co-morbidities. Require understanding of the principles of medicines optimisation throughout the PCN and practice teams, promoting good practice in line with national and local requirements.

Action clinical letters and discharge summaries, providing leadership on person centred medicine optimisation and quality improvement. Assist with drug monitoring including high risk drug monitoring, switching medications to agreed and approved protocols. Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process, by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions & medicines reaching review dates, minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.

BWM PCN compromises of four member practices with a joint patient population of 30,000 (approximately), each with its unique strengths and expertise. Our aim is to leverage these strengths and foster collaboration among our network members to deliver its key objectives contained in the Directed Enhanced Service Contract (DES) from NHS England and NHS Improvement and enhance the quality and efficiency of care delivery and by working together, we can offer a wide range of services, support and coordinated care effectively, and improve patient outcomes.

• Repeat prescribing and medication reviews.
• Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.
• Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing and address public health and social needs of patients through clinical medication review. This would be a level 3 medication review looking at the patients full clinical condition e.g. blood monitoring, interface care arrangements, social isolation.
• Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.
• Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues.
• Interface with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals including the promotion of the repeat dispensing service.
• Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates.
• Manage Practice formularies to improve the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of prescribing.
• Work with primary care professionals and patients to implement NICE and other evidence based guidelines.
• Act as a source of medicines information for all of the Practice team and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives if stock issues).
• Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.

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