PCN Clinical Pharmacist

Bea pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacists in general practice.

The post holder will work as part ofa multi-disciplinary team

Take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.

Toprovide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries.

Tosupport the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests,and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patient in the GP practice (s).

Provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement andmanage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.

Toensure that the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy tohelp utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload. The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passionto deliver excellent service within general practice.

The focus ofthe post holders work will evolve and develop over time and will include -

• Structured Medication Reviews
• Ageing Well MDTs
• Help with care homes enhanced service
• Medication reviews
• Eclipse support monitoring systems
• Assistance with Prescribing Incentive Scheme and Investment and Impact fund
• Audits and reporting

There will be scope to enhance your clinical skillsin dealing with specific patient groups

MWEB PCNconsists of 5 GP practices in Northamptonshire (Moulton, Woodview, Kingsthorpe, Wootton and Denton). Our PCN vision is tohelp all of our patients lead the best possible life from the cradle to thegrave through a collaborative and team approach. We are a forward thinking PCNwith a constant view of how we evolve and are always looking for innovative and efficient approaches to our way of working.

Our work models are a mixture offace to-face and remote consultations.

This is a PCN role specifically covering Moulton Surgery and Kingsthorpe Medical Centre with a combination of practice based and remote working.

Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility

Key aspects of the role include -

• Long-Term Conditions reviews (depending on scope of competence and training)
• Clinical Medication Reviews
• Care Home Medication Reviews
• Medicines Support for patients
• Medicine Information to Practice Staff and Patients
• Hospital Admissions Avoidance
• Management of Medicines at Discharge from Hospital
• Signposting to other health care professionals as appropriate
• Repeat Prescribing management
• Service Development
• Information Management
• Implementation of Local and National Guidelines and Formulary Recommendations
• Education and Training

• Excellent interpersonal influencing and negotiating skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimization issues in core areas for long term conditions.
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information.
• Recognizes priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate.
• Able to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence, motivate, persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations, agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers.
• Work effectively independently and as a team member.
• Demonstrates accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.
• Able to act upon MHRA alerts.
• Is a prescriber or working towards this competence

• Min 2 to 4 years post graduate (2 years experience working in general practice or 4 years in other comparable healthcare setting).
• Experience of public health promotion/high risk medicines monitoring/lead on antimicrobial stewardship/safe and effective repeat…