PCN Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Direct Patient Facing Working

Conduct face-to-face, telephone, domiciliary and virtual (where appropriate) clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with chronic conditions.

Proactively identify and manage patients with complex polypharmacy

Review the ongoing need for each medication, ensuring monitoring needs are performed and an opportunity to support patient achieve better health outcomes.

Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing.

Make appropriate recommendations.

Medicines Information

Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams and patient with queries about medicines.

Suggest and recommend solutions using clinical knowledge and trusted pharmaceutical sources.

Medicines Reconciliation

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.

To review medications for newly registered patients.

Medicines Management

Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy helping to improve safety and efficiency.

Develop and implement ways to improve monitoring of high-risk medication such as anticoagulants, anticonvulsants and DMARDS etc.

Monitor practice prescribing against local guidelines and formulary recommendations.

Develop prescribing guidelines for use within the Network.

Help increase uptake of Electronic Repeat Dispensing

Medicine Safety

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

Develop and implement systems to identify cohorts of patients most likely to be at risk of unplanned admissions and readmissions from medication.

Collaborative Working Relationships

Work collaboratively with the PCN team

Develop relationships and work closely with community, hospital, and pharmacy colleagues and the wider health system.

Liaise with other stakeholders for collective benefit of patients

Attend relevant network and practice meetings.

Education and Training

To analyse latest prescribing information and trends and subsequently present this in an appropriate format to clinicians within practices to promote good prescribing practice.

Provide specialist education to pharmacy colleagues, nursing staff and GPs on aspects of medicines optimization.

Demonstrate self-development through continuous professional development.

Implement strategies to support antimicrobial stewardship.

Network Targets

Support practices to deliver on QIPP agenda, QOF, IIF and locally commissioned enhanced services.

To be aware of prescribing budget and identify any action areas for cost improvement.

Work with PCN/Practice team to ensure practices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

Please see full Job Description attached.

Person Specification

Other

Essential

• Demonstrates ability to motivate self and use initiative to achieve goals
• Good computer literacy

Desirable

• Knowledge of GP systems (eg EMIS web/Docman)
• Car user (to travel between more than one GP practice)

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm)
• Independent prescriber
• Evidence of commitment to continuing profession development

Desirable

• Postgraduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review medication for patients in core areas, including long term conditions
• An appreciation of the role of a GP and general practice
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to make judgements involving complex facts or situations that require analysis and interpretation of a range of option
• Able to work under pressure, manage own workload and meet deadlines
• Works effectively independently and as part of a team
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (eg patients)
• Demonstrates attention to detail, able to work accurately, identify errors quickly and easily
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing

Desirable

• Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience
• Experience of working within primary care

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

Glenroyd Medical Practice

Address

Moor Park Health and Leisure Centre

Bristol Avenue

Bispham, Blackpool

FY2 0JG

Employer's website

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