Job responsibilities
Job responsibilities
To be part of a multi-skilled primary care
team in a patient facing role providing patient centred medical services based
on patient needs with a focus on continuity of care. Including:
Patient facing or telephone Clinical Medication
Review
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 and people with learning disabilities or autism.
Review the
on-going need for each medication, ensuring monitoring needs are performed and
use the opportunity to support patients achieve better health outcomes through
shared decision-making conversations.
Support patients
to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care.
Make appropriate
recommendations to prescribers.
Promote safe
disposal of medicines and recycling of inhaler.
Patient facing Long-term condition clinics.
Help to set up Pharmacist
run long term condition clinics particularly for patients with complicated
medication regimes.
Optimisation of
blood pressure control
Medicines information
Take part in the Pharmacy
team central rota to answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs,
other practice staff, other healthcare teams e.g. community Pharmacy, and
patients.
Suggest and
recommend solutions using clinical knowledge and trusted pharmaceutical sources.
Medicine Reconciliation
Carry out
medication reviews and reconciliation for all new care home patients and for
patients whose care is transferred back into primary care.
Medicines Management
Support
initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic
prescribing locally.
Support the
dispensary team in the set up and roll out of a new way of working to manage
blood monitoring of High-Risk Drugs and DOACs.
Take part in the
monthly rota to check DOAC doses in response to these blood results.
Provide
specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the
public health and social care needs of patients at the PCNs practices and to
help in tackling inequalities.
Undertake
specific medicines optimisation-based projects/portfolio areas of work as may
be required by the Pharmacy Team, e.g. diabetes medication.
Collaborating Working Relationships
With the Pharmacy
team, support 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.
Work
collaboratively with ICB pharmacists within our Pharmacy Team
Work closely with
other Pharmacy professionals within and across the PCN and the wider health and
social care system
Work
with the Pharmacy team to develop shared care protocols, clinical research with
medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists, liaison with community
pharmacists and anticoagulation
Education and Training
The applicant will
have completed the non-medical prescriber course or the PCPEP, Primary Care Pharmacy
course. Either course will be fully supported if not completed and time
allocated for study days.
Medicines optimisation
Demonstrate
self-development through continuous professional development.
Develop a good
working knowledge of the clinical systems used by the Practices.
Attend internal
and external meetings and any training courses and supervision sessions as
required.
Complete regular
mandatory training.
Practice
Support the
implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within the
Practice. This will be achieved through
undertaking clinical audits, supporting quality improvement measures, and
contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services. Make
recommendations.
Support the
delivery of the Pharmacy and medicines optimisation elements of the Network
service specifications within the Network Contract DES
Help the GPs with
reauthorising medication and repeat prescribing process and medication reviews.
On the day
medication queries from patients
Manage minor
illness queries for self-management or referral to GP or other agencies where
needed.
Understand the
role of CQC in General Practice and adhere to Practice policies.
Take part in
significant event meetings and Practice protected learning meetings.
Service development
Identify areas of
good practice
To work with
other Pharmacists, with the Practices and, where practicable, to help standardise
the medicines management process across the PCN.
Undertake
any other duties as may reasonably be required from time to time.
The
applicant will need to have access to their own transport