Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

The following are the core responsibilities of the Clinical Pharmacist within the PCN. There may be on occasion a requirement to carry out other tasks, this will be dependent on factors such as workload and staffing levels.

Support complex care patient cohort.

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacist, nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.

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

Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.

Provide patient facing clinics and telephone support for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice

Answer relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other staff, other healthcare teams e.g. community pharmacy. Suggesting and recommending solutions.

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

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

To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working 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.

Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period e.g. pathology results, common and minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc

Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review.

Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.

Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both.

Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation. Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components e.g., advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets.

Information management

Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.

Medicines quality improvement

Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the Clinical Director, feedback the results and implement changes.

Medicines safety

Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations

Monitor prescribing against the local health economy's RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs).

Assist the PCN in seeing and maintaining a formulary that is hosted on the computer system.

Auditing the PCNs compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance.

Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.

Collaborative Working Relationships

Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the PCN and their role to patient care

Demonstrates ability to work as a member of a team

Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality

Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit

Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and

sustain such relationships

Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital

pharmacy teams

Other healthcare professionals including pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, optometrists, dentists, health and social care teams and dieticians etc.

o Locality or GP prescribing lead

o Locality managers

o Community nurses and other allied health professionals

o Community and hospital pharmacy teams

o Hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimisation

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Masters Degree in MPharm or equivalent.
• Independent Prescriber.

Desirable

• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
• A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
• Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training or experience.

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience.
• An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices.
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing.

Desirable

• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Heart of Lincoln Medical Group (HLMG)

Address

Lincoln Healthcare Partnership PCN

Lincoln

LN6 3QX

Employer's website

https://newarkroadsurgery.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)