Clinical Pharmacist

To optimise medicines management processes and achieve highly effective, safe,patient-centred prescribing within a defined locality across a number of surgeries. The Practice Pharmacist will be expected to work autonomously, butwith the support of the multi-professional primary care team.

Within theteam the Practice Pharmacist will focus on developing medicines optimisation services across the locality. This involves running processes for repeat prescription reauthorisation, management of medicines on transfer of care and developing systems for safer prescribing. The Practice Pharmacist will carryout medication reviews for patients with polypharmacy - especially for older people, people resident in care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities/long-term conditions.

The Practice Pharmacist will provide leadership on quality improvement and clinical audit,as well as managing some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework. Byworking across surgeries, there is the opportunity to share ideas and examplesof good practice. Time will be split proportionately, depending on thesurgerys list size, and work will vary depending on the needs of the practice.

Main Responsibilities

-To maintain registration as a pharmacist and comply with appropriate professional codes

-To plan and organise own workload, including audit, project work, and provide training sessions for other members of the multi-disciplinary team.

-Maintain and develop professional competence and expertise, keep up to date with medical/therapeutic evidence and opinion, and local and national service,legislation and policy developments

-To develop and facilitate good working relationships with community pharmacists and other stakeholders

-Attend local,regional and national meetings of relevance

-Undertake anyother duties commensurate with the post holders grade as agreed with the locality and/or practice lead GPs

-All employees should understand that it is their personal responsibility to comply with all organisational and statutory requirements (e.g. health and safety, equal treatment and diversity, confidentiality and clinical governance).

Southend East PCN is based in Shoeburyness, Essex. The PCN has its own building - Norton Place, which it works out of independently from the surgeries. The PCN is made up of 4 surgeries - Central Surgery (Dr Irlam), Southend Coastal Surgeries, Dr Palacin and Drs Kumar&Sinha which covers around 37,000 patients.

The PCN employs about 40 staff, fully utilising ARRS and other funding streams to deliver the PCN DES. At the PCN, you will be working with a wide range of Professionals, making up a Multi-disciplinary team as well as working in the surgeries to support with Medicines Optimisation and Medication Reviews.

Main Responsibilities

To maintain registration as a pharmacist and comply with appropriate professional codes

To plan and organise own workload, including audit, project work, and provide training sessions for other members of the multi-disciplinary team.

Maintain and develop professional competence and expertise, keep up to date with medical/therapeutic evidence and opinion, and local and national service,legislation and policy developments

To develop and facilitate good working relationships with community pharmacists and other stakeholders

Attend local,regional and national meetings of relevance

Undertake anyother duties commensurate with the post holders grade as agreed with the locality and/or practice lead GPs

All employees should understand that it is their personal responsibility to comply with all organisational and statutory requirements (e.g. health and safety, equal treatment and diversity, confidentiality and clinical governance).

Key Duties

Management of medicines after discharge from hospital

To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into carehomes; identify and rectify unexplained changes; manage these changes without referral to the GP; perform a clinical medication review; produce apost-discharge medicines care plan including dose titration and booking offollow-up tests. Work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge. Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).Work

in partnership with hospital colleagues (e.g. care of the elderly doctorsand clinical pharmacists) to proactively manage patients at high risk of medicine-related problems before they are discharged to ensure continuity ofcare

Design, develop and implement searches to identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines.

Work with patients and the primary care team to minimise risks through medicines optimisation. Implement local and national guidelines and formularyrecommendations. Monitor practice prescribing against the local healtheconomys Red/Amber/Green/Grey lists for medicines that should be…