Clinical Pharmacist - West Barnes Surgery

The West Barnes Surgery has a exciting opportunity for a part time Clinical Pharmacist to join our dynamic multidisciplinary team. This patient-facing role is to enhance the quality of care for our patients.

The successful candidate will be provided with excellent clinical support and an opportunity to develop their primary care skills.

We are looking for motivated, team-orientated individual whoshares our enthusiasm for improving patient care. Previous primary care experience is preferred as well as excellent verbal communication skills, aproactive approach and a desire to learn.

As the role develops, you will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex poly-pharmacy.

You will also provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries.

Weare welcoming applications from qualified Clinical Pharmacists to join our innovative Primary Care Network (PCN).

The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management, provide face toface structured medication reviews, manage long term conditions, management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing as well asmanage repeat prescription authorisation and reauthorisations.

• Patient facing long term conditional clinics
• Patient facing Clinical and Care Home medication reviews
• Management of medications
• Unplanned Hospital Admissions
• Repeat Prescribing
• Service Development
• Information Management
• Provide education and training to Primary Healthcare

Kingston GP Chambers is a Federation of all NHS General Practices within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. It was founded in 2008 as a limited company whose shareholders are all 20 GP Practices within Kingston. The company is led by a Board of Directors who are also GP Partners in their own Practices within Kingston.

Kingston GP Chambers has worked collaboratively with both secondary care and the private sector. At present we provide community clinics for Dermatology, Urology, Neurology, Dementia and Diabetes.

In addition, Kingston GP Chambers are at the forefront of improving patient access to primary care. We deliver a comprehensive extended hours service offering GP appointments across three hubs in the evenings Monday to Friday, over the weekend and on Bank Holidays.

Kingston GP Chambers has the ability to respond rapidly, and we have continued to demonstrate the capability to provide high-quality, innovative and timely solutions to improving patient care and experience.

We work closely alongside the other GP Federations in Southwest London to continue the government's five-year forward plan and deliver patient services in the community.

We aim to continue to grow as we are increasingly recognised as the provider of choice for extended, enhanced and urgent GP services. We also expect an increasing role as we support, reinforce and develop the position of general practice as the core building block for an increasing range of jointly-provided services.

Patient facing long term condition clinics

• Carry out consultations with patients with single or multiple medical conditions where medicine optimisation is preferred
• Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicine taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines.
• Make appropriate recommendations to GPs for medicines improvement.

Patient facing clinical medication review

• Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for GPson prescribing/monitoring.

Patient facing Care Home Medication Review

• Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for GPson prescribing and monitoring.
• Work with care home staff to improve safety and appropriate medication ordering (medication waste)

Patient facing domiciliary clinical medication review

• Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
• Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conference

Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments

• Managing caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within scope of practice and limits of competence.
• Sign posting to community pharmacy and referring to appropriate healthcare professional i.e., GP/Practice Nurse/ Advanced Nurse Practitioner
• Telephone medication support provide telephone support for patients with queries or concerns about their medication
• Management of medications at discharge from hospital to reconcile medications upon discharge from hospitals, immediate care and intocare homes including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.
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