PCN Clinical Pharmacist

Job summary

The Clinical Pharmacist post has been created to provide the leadership necessary to create a sustainable clinical pharmacy service for this PCN.

The clinical aspects outlined in the role responsibilities are intended to:

• Support and improve prescribing and medication-related processes at a practice level
• Improve the safety of prescribing, especially around repeat medication and transfers of care
• Improve the quality of prescribing, with a specific focus on National Service Specifications
• Understand and address medication-related challenges specific to this PCN
• Enable Practices to optimize medicines-related targets in QOF

Main duties of the job

The key responsibilities for the PCN pharmacist have been determined by NHS England and are described on page 20 of the Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service Specifications1:

These are set out as follows:

a. Clinical pharmacists will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.

b. They will be prescribers, or will be completing training to become prescribers, and will work with and alongside the general practice team. They will 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 co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (via STOMP- Stop Over Medication Programme).

c. They will 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.

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About us

South Fulham is a forward thinking and friendly PCN looking to expand our paramedic and wider additional roles team. Based across our network of seven practices in Hammersmith & Fulham you will offer remote and face to face appointments, with the added potential to provide home visits. If you are a motivated self-starter and passionate about offering excellent care, we would love to hear from you.

We are a forward thinking, can-do and ambitious team who aim to provide consistent, excellent healthcare for our patients and residents. We are excited to transition our PCN into its new phase of development and growth.