PCN Clinical Pharmacist - maternity cover

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Summary

The Oadby & Wigston (OWI) Primary Care Network (PCN) Clinical pharmacist will have a key role in supporting the OWI PCN to deliver the new Network Contract DES specification. For the Structured Medications Review and Optimisation requirements this will include tackling over-medication of patients, including inappropriate use of antibiotics, withdrawing medicines no longer needed through NHS-led programmes such as low priority prescribing and medicines optimisation more widely. For Enhanced Health in Care Homes residents will benefit from regular clinical-pharmacy led medicines reviews.

The post holder will support the Enhanced Access scheme which will require some Saturday / evening working.

Key Objectives

• Provide pro-active leadership on medicines and prescribing systems to the practice multidisciplinary team, patients and their carers • Develop and deliver patient facing services and clinics which improve patient outcomes, reflect the needs of the practice population and shift workload from other disciplines • Improve patient and carer understanding of, confidence in and compliance with their medicines • Provide pharmaceutical consultations and home visits to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team • Deliver high quality structured medication reviews and develop bespoke medicines treatment plans for patients (particularly the elderly, complex patients and those at high risk of admission) • Improve the safety and quality of prescribing following hospital admissions and attendance • Improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education to improve performance against NICE standards, prescribing guidance and other clinical standards • Develop yourself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training and service redesign activities • Provide a clear and active link with community pharmacists and other stakeholders in the medicines supply chain to improve patient experience and manage issues • Deliver training, mentoring and guidance to other clinicians and staff on medicines issues

Job Responsibilities may include but not limited to:

Patient Facing Clinical Services & Care

• Work in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.

• Take responsibility 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 long term conditions (in particular COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP - Stopping Over Medication Programme)

• Conduct face to face and other modes of medication reviews and agree medicines care plans in agreement with patients and carers

• Deliver long term conditions clinics and home visits particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes and prescribe accordingly

• Prescribe acute and repeat medication for patient need within areas of competency

• Provide targeted support and pro-active review for vulnerable, complex patients and those at risk of admission and re-admission to secondary care

• Provide specific advice and support to patients in care homes and support staff

• Provide help and advice on medicines use to patients and their carers

Medicines Optimisation Systems

• Provide leadership on person centred medicines optimisation. Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care.

• Oversee system for reconciliation of medicines from outpatient and discharge letters and support safe transfer of care through liaison with hospital and community colleagues

• Liaise with other stakeholders in the supply chain such as community pharmacists and appliance contractors to handle queries and manage supply problems

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• 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) and anticoagulation.

Safety

· Report medicines related incidents, contribute to investigations and root cause analyses

· Participate in serious incident investigations and multidisciplinary case reviews

· Report Adverse Drug Reactions and promote reporting by MDT

· Action and respond to Drug Safety Alerts and other safety cascades.

Training, Education & Information

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• Develop and deliver education sessions and training to clinical and non-clinical staff on medicines issues

• Deliver education and support to individual patients and patient support groups on medicines

• Provide ad-hoc medicines advice to doctors and other clinicians

• Assess emergent clinical evidence and develop strategies for implementation in practice

• Horizon scan for new drugs and provide information to the MDT on their introduction

• Provide advice on cost effective prescribing and supply issues

• Provide teaching and support to medical students, GP trainees and other trainee healthcare professionals

• Actively participate in National CPPE training scheme for clinical pharmacists

Quality

• Ensure compliance with CQC and other professional standards

• Promote a culture of constant improvement and excellence

• Conduct regular clinical audits and other improvement activities

• Assess own performance regularly and make suggestions of how to improve personal and team performance

Financial & Physical Resources

• Manage prescribing expenditure and monitor drug budget

• Prescribe cost effectively

• Reduce waste

• Ensure safe storage and security of medicines

Health & Safety

• Assist in promoting and maintaining your own and others’ health, safety and security as defined in the Practice Health and Safety policy. Ensure that any hazards in your working area are reported immediately to your line manager.

Confidentiality

• Ensure patient and Practice information is kept confidential and secure at all times, in accordance with the Information Security and Confidentiality protocols.

Performance/Professional Development

• Participate in;

o Training sessions to ensure administrative, clinical and computer skills are kept up to date with current technology and practice.

o Regular appraisal meetings.

o Regular team meetings.

o Comply with the General Pharmaceutical Council Re-validation process

Equality & Diversity

• Support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues according to Practice protocol.

Working with Patients

• Work in partnership with our patients to help them achieve better health outcomes.

• Offer a polite, friendly and efficient level of customer service to all our patients.

· They will provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines while helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients in the network and help in tackling inequalities.

Dignity and Respect

• Treat patients, colleagues and visitors with dignity and respect at all times.

Feedback

• Listen to feedback from patients and colleagues whether this be a complaint, comment or compliment and if it cannot be dealt with immediately, ensure it is reported immediately to a member of the Practice Management Team.

Key Working Relationships & Communications

· The post holder will 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. The role has the potential to significantly improve quality of care and safety for patients.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• An undergraduate degree or equivalent in Pharmacy.
• Membership as practising pharmacist with The General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Commitment towards continuing professional development in accordance with requirements of The General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Clinical Diploma or equivalent

Desirable

• Post-graduate qualification to Diploma or Masters level in a recognised area of pharmacy practice or equivalent.
• Pharmacist independent prescriber registered with The General Pharmaceutical Council or training to become an independent prescriber

Experience

Essential

• Relevant post registration experience of community, hospital and / or primary care pharmacy practice.

Knowledge & skills

Essential

• Good IT skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent organisational, analytical and problem solving skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and diplomacy.

Desirable

• A working understanding of NHS policies, processes, structures, systems and clinical practices.
• Knowledge of the Community Pharmacy Contract.

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

Bushloe Surgery

Address

10 Abington Close

Wigston

Leicestershire

LE18 2EW

Employer's website

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