PCN Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

· Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.

· Be a prescriber, or completing training to become a prescriber, and work with and alongside the general practice team; be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP – Stop Over Medication Programme).

· Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the PCN’s practice(s) and to help in tackling inequalities.

· Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.

· Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care.

· Have a leadership role in supporting further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload.

· Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across PCNs and the wider health and social care system.

· Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties), liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation.

· Assist with leadership and management of Pharmacy Technician’s, supporting their training and directing their workload. Ensuring quality of their work.

· Providing advice from a pharmacy perspective to the RPN leadership team, participating in key quality improvement projects to enable the achievement of the RPN over-arching strategy.

· Managing medication and safety alerts on behalf of the practices.

· Assisting with PCN services such as Enhanced Health in Care Homes.

· Support prescribing protocols, such as repeat prescribing within the practices. Upskilling practice staff where required.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in Pharmacy
• Full registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Desirable

• Completion of CPPE pathway (if not already complete must be willing to enroll on to pathway)
• Prescribing qualification (training opportunity available if not)

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

Millbrook Surgery

Address

South Somerset East PCN

South Somerset East PCN

South Somerset East PCN

ba22 7lt

Employer's website

https://www.millbrook-surgery.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)