Clinical Pharmacist

Working within your professional and clinical boundaries as part of an established multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in all areas of medicine related practice in a patient facing role.

Working in partnership with various organisations, to improve the quality and safety of care offered to our patients. Using independent prescribing to support better access to medicines, clinical medicines management, provide face to face structured medication reviews, tackling polypharmacy and manage long term conditions.

To manage medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing including manage repeat prescriptions, acute prescription requests and antibiotic stewardship, while addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients across the primary care network practices.

To ensure that PCN practices integrate with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload.

This role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice.

For a second year in a row, Sunderland GP Alliance has been listed in The Sunday Times Best Places to Work and Better Health At Work - Gold Award, Continuing Excellence, offering 33 days annual leave plus many other benefits

Sunderland GP Alliance is owned by the GP Practices of Sunderland and helps GPs work collaboratively for the benefit of patients and staff. We are a not-for-profit organisation, ensuring any surplus is reinvested back into better services for patients.

Sunderland GP Alliance runs three medical practices at New Silksworth Medical Practice, South Hylton Surgery and Monument Surgeries.

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The focus of the post holders work will depend on the qualifications, skills and experience of the individual and the needs of the PCN Practice(s) both of which may develop over time. Therefore the breadth of duties are outlined below:

Patient facing long term condition clinics

See patients in multimorbidity clinics and in partnership with primary healthcare colleagues and implement improvements to patients medicines, including de‑prescribing, managing own case load.

Patient facing clinical medication reviewand support

Undertake structured, clinical shared decision making medication reviews with patients and utilising your independent prescribing and order relevant monitoring with appropriate review.

Telephone medicines support

Provide a telephone support for patients with queries and concerns about their medicines.

Patient facing care home/residential clinical medication reviews

Manage own caseload of care home residents providing a structured medication review.

Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.

Patient facing domiciliary/home visits

Manage own caseload of vulnerable housebound patients at risk of hospital admission and harm from poor use of their medicines.

Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences. Identifying key areas of need for vulnerable patients and formulating care plans.

Management of common/minor/self‑limiting ailments

Manage own caseload for patients with common/minor/self‑limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence, signposting as appropriate.

Triage/differentiated/undifferentiated diagnosis

Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate clinician for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time.

Medicine information to practice staff and patients

Answer all medicine related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines.

Unplanned hospital admissions

Implement practice searches to identify cohorts of patients most likely to be at risk of an unplanned admission/re‑admission from medicines

Work with colleagues to manage medicines‑related risk for readmission and patient harm. Put in place changes to optimise prescribing of these medicines to high‑risk patient groups.

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