PCN Prescribing Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Prescribing Clinical Pharmacist will improve the quality and safety of care offered to our patients across the Primary Care Network. The Pharmacist will have regular face to face contact with patients, assisting with reducing the workload for GP Prescribers and supporting patients with long term conditions. Reconciling hospital discharge summaries, ensuring continuity of medication and updating medication records post discharge will be key aspects to this role.

Main Duties:

Repeat Prescribing

Support all Practices with reviewing, proposing and actioning repeat prescribing medication policies locally.

Long Term Conditions

Undertake face to face or telephone consultations with patients to review long term conditions where medicine optimisation is required. These reviews will be undertaken alongside the Practice Nursing Teams. Review the ongoing need for each medication, monitoring requirements and support the patients with utilising their medication correctly.

Structured Medication Reviews

Undertake medication reviews with patients, review and request monitoring tests as appropriate for patients both in the Practice. Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients in care homes and produce recommendations for the relevant Practices on prescribing and monitoring. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.

Telephone Medicines Support

Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.

Discharge from Hospital

To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospital into the community or care homes by identifying changes and updating the medical records appropriately.

Audits

Undertake periodic prescribing related audits as directed by the PCN Practices

Support

Provide support to the Practices with Prescribing Safety, QOF and guidance for Dispensary Team Members. Undertake periodic training sessions on topics of interest for Dispensary Team Members across the Primary Care Network.

Risk Stratification

Identify patients at high risk of harm from medicines through clinical system searches at Practice level.

Care Quality Commission

Work with each Practice to ensure the Practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

Safety

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

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Independent Medical Prescriber

Experience

Essential

• A good understanding of pharmacy within primary care
• Demonstrable general pharmaceutical skills and knowledge in core areas, particularity the management of long term conditions

Desirable

• Ability to build effective relationships with patients and colleagues
• Full and clean UK driving licence

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

East Kennet Primary Care Network

Address

Ramsbury & Wanborough Surgery

Whittonditch Road

Ramsbury

Wiltshire

SN8 2QT

Employer's website

https://www.ramsburyandwanboroughsurgery.com/index.aspx (Opens in a new tab)