Job responsibilities
The Clinical Pharmacist will support the Partners and other
clinical staff including the Pharmacy Technician in the surgery to deliver a
programme of medicines optimisation, including managing hospital discharge
medication changes, secondary care implemented medicines, CQC related medicine
changes and practice medication queries.
The post holder will be responsible for encouraging the development of
better understanding of the principles of medicines optimisation for the clinical
staff within the Practice.
Key
responsibilities
Be an independent prescriber
Contribute to the delivery
of effective daily processes for the transfer
of care between hospitals
and clinical staff including effective
signposting, recommendation of medication changes and communication accordingly
Monitoring creatinine clearance
for DOACs and checking correct doses which will include changing appropriate
patients to edoxaban
Support colleagues and patients
with medication queries
and monitoring
Support
clinical colleagues with the daily repeat authorising tasks and prescribing
requests
Undertake clinical
medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy
Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines, while helping to address both the public health
and social care needs of patients
Using audit and action
planning, help to tackle
inequalities
Provide leadership on person-centered medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the
Practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship
guidance) and quality improvement
Contribute to the General
Practice quality and outcomes framework (QOF) and enhanced
services
Use structured medication reviews
to support patients
to take their medications to get the best
from them, reduce waste and promote self-care
Contribute pharmaceutical
advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways
and patient information leaflets)
Work with the General Practice
team to ensure that the practice
is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved
Take a lead role in some
aspects of supporting further integration of General Practice with other
healthcare teams 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 Primary
Care Networks and the wider health and social care system
Take a central role in the clinical aspects
of shared care protocols, liaison with specialist pharmacists,
liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation services
Undertake the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education (CPPE) Primary
Care Pharmacy Education
Pathway or equivalent primary care training pathway if not already underway or
completed
Provide Clinical Supervision for the
Practice Pharmacy Technician
The above list of duties
is not exhaustive and may be subject
to change as deemed necessary.
Aims and Goals of post
Reduced clinician workload
Reduced medication costs by
formulary prescribing cost-effective alternatives
Improved medication outcomes
for patients
Improved patient safety and
medication optimisation
Improved efficiency of medication
changes
Effective management of shared
care drugs
Improved prescribing for care
home residents
Confidentiality
In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather
sensitive information in relation
to their health
and other matters.
They do so in confidence and have the right to
expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the postholder may have access
to confidential information
relating to patients and their carers, practice
staff and other healthcare workers.
They may also have access
to information relating
to the business organisation. All such information from any source is to
be regarded as strictly confidential
Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other
healthcare workers or the business
of the company may only be
divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the company policies
and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and
sensitive data
Health & safety
The postholder will take responsibility for their own and others
health, safety and security
as defined in the companys health & safety policy, the staff handbook and
the
infection control
policy and procedures. This will include
(but will not be limited
to):
Using personal security systems
within the workplace
according to company
guidelines
Identifying the risks involved
in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manage those risks
Using appropriate infection control
procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way
and free from hazards, and initiation of remedial / corrective action where
needed
Actively identifying, reporting, and correcting health
and safety hazards
and infection hazards immediately when recognized
Equality and diversity
The postholder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers
and colleagues, to include:
Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights,
interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and
policies, and current legislation
Respecting the privacy, dignity,
needs and beliefs
of patients, carers and colleagues
Behaving in a manner
which is welcoming to and of the individual, is nonjudgmental and respects
their circumstances, feelings, priorities and rights
Personal/professional development
The postholder will participate in any training
programme implemented by the Practice
as part of this
employment, such training to include:
Participation in an annual
individual performance review,
including taking responsibility for maintaining a record of own personal and/or professional
development
Taking responsibility for own development, learning
and performance and demonstrating skills and
activities to others who are undertaking similar work
Communication
The postholder should
recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and
will strive to:
Communicate effectively with other team members
Communicate effectively with patients and carers
Recognise peoples
needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly
Apply company policies standards
and guidance
