PCN Clinical Pharmacist

Job summary

The post holder is a pharmacist who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacists in general practice, as part of a multidisciplinary team in a patient-facing role.

Main duties of the jobYou will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy. You'll provide primary support to general practice staff on prescription and medication queries - supporting the repeat prescription system, dealing with acute prescription requests, and managing medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing.

You will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement, manage aspects of, See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems requiring medicine optimisation (e.g. hypertension,asthma) Review the ongoing need for each medicine and monitoring needs, support patients with their medicines taking, and make appropriate recommendations to GPs for medicine improvement

Patient-facing clinical medication review

Undertake clinical medication reviews and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GPs on prescribing and monitoring

Patient-facing care home medication reviews

Undertake structured medication reviews and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacist, nurses or GPsWork with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration

Patient-facing domiciliary clinical medication review

Undertake structured medication reviews and produce recommendations for nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring

Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences

Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments

Manage a caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments, working within your scope of practice and limits of competence

Signpost to community pharmacy and refer to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate

Medicines support (patient-facing and telephone)
Provide patient-facing and telephone clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines

Medicine information to practice staff and patients

Answer medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams and patients, suggesting and recommending solutions

Provide follow-up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes

Unplanned hospital admissions

Review use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews

Put in place changes to reduce prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups

Management of medicines at discharge from hospital

Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals,intermediate care and into care homes, identifying and rectifying unexplained changes

Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients

Signposting

Ensure patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate timeframe

Repeat prescribing

Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy

Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process, ensuring appropriate monitoring tests are in place

Risk stratification

Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches

Medicines quality improvement and safety

Undertake clinical audits of prescribing, feedback results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team Implement changes to medicines resulting from MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and other local and national guidance

Guidelines, formulary and CQCMonitor practice prescribing against the local health economy's RAG list and make recommendations to GPsAssist practices in maintaining a practice formulary and audit compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance

Work with the practice team to ensure compliance with CQC standards where medicines are involved

Education, training and public health

Provide education and training to the primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation

Support public health campaigns and provide specialist knowledge on public health programmes

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