Hatters PCN Lead Clinical Pharmacist

Hatters Health PCN is looking for a passionate and innovative leader for our friendly, dynamic clinical pharmacy team. The appropriate candidate will have the ambition and commitment to provide high quality care to patients, and a passion for clinical, team and personal development.

To leadand mentor the pharmacy team, support clinical decision-making and contribute to competency assessment, supervision and professional development

To provide operational leadership for medicines reconciliation, prescribing queries,electronic repeat dispensing and shared-care arrangements.

To promote medication safety, respond to medicines alerts and ensure appropriate monitoring for high-risk therapies.

To helpto translate national and local priorities into effective practice

Todeliver structured medication reviews and medicines optimisation for patients,including those with long-term conditions, high-risk medicines or complex needs.

To run patient-facing clinics and provide care by telephone, face to face, including domiciliary or care-home visits where required.

To lead audits, searches, quality-improvement work, policies and protocols, using datato monitor impact and report progress.

To Work closely with GPs, nurses, practice managers, community pharmacy,hospital teams, the ICB, INT and other partners to improve pathways and patient outcomes

To support PCN DES and Neighbourhood priorities, CQC readiness,public-health initiatives, health equity and consistent ways of working across member practices.

Tooversee key medicines related programmes

Hatters Health PCN is a successful, innovative and friendly PCN with 5 member practices, situated in North West Luton. We pride ourself on providing a positive and collaborative atmosphere where everyone works together for the benefit of our population and our staff. We are a very friendly, supportive organisation which genuinely values learning and development and as such were the first PCN in BLMK to be recognised as a training organisation.

Our pharmacy team benefit from regular tutorials and clinical supervision.

Summary:To provide leadership and development for the PCN pharmacy team whilst continuing to deliver high quality,patient-centred clinical care.

Role:

1. To leadand mentor the pharmacy team, support clinical decision-making and contribute to competency assessment, supervision and professional development

2. To provide operational leadership for medicines reconciliation, prescribing queries,electronic repeat dispensing and shared-care arrangements.

3. To promote medication safety, respond to medicines alerts and ensure appropriate monitoring for high-risk therapies.

4. To helpto translate national and local priorities into effective practice

5. Todeliver structured medication reviews and medicines optimisation for patients,including those with long-term conditions, high-risk medicines or complex needs.

6. To run patient-facing clinics and provide care by telephone, face to face, including domiciliary or care-home visits where required.

7. To lead audits, searches, quality-improvement work, policies and protocols, using datato monitor impact and report progress.

8. To Work closely with GPs, nurses, practice managers, community pharmacy,hospital teams, the ICB, INT and other partners to improve pathways and patient outcomes

9. To support PCN DES and Neighbourhood priorities, CQC readiness,public-health initiatives, health equity and consistent ways of working across member practices.

10. Tooversee key medicines related programmes

Responsibilities:

Clinical

Provide advanced clinical pharmacy input including:

Structured Medication Reviews for complex patients

Long-term condition management (e.g. hypertension,asthma, diabetes)

Antimicrobial stewardship and prescribing safety.

Provide expert clinical advice to GPs and other healthcare professionals on safe, evidence-based and cost-effective prescribing

In collaboration with colleagues such as GPs,Nurses and Healthcare Assistants, be aware of the holistic needs of the patient and adapt therapy where appropriate

Address the day-to-day issues raised by patients /staff in relation to medicines management and elevate / investigate / prevent recurrence as necessary

Competently manage and undertake patient clinics,organising workload and processes around this to ensure timely patient follow-ups and medicine optimisation.

Work collaboratively with MDTs to ensure seamless integration of pharmacy into patient pathways.

Leadership & Management:

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