Clinical Pharmacist

Job summary

The Deben Health Group PCN is looking for a clinical pharmacist to join our well established team on a full or part-time basis, with a minimum of 15 hours per week required. As a clinical pharmacist you will be joining an established team, with clinical supervision from within the PCN. You will predominately be based at Riduna Park in Melton, Woodbridge, however you may be required to travel to our other practices within the PCN.

You will provide patient facing and remote medicines support through structured medication reviews (SMRs) medicine optimisation, GP tasks, MHRA, discharge summaries, long term condition management, telephone medicines support to patients and GP practice staff, manage medicines after discharge from hospital, and ensuring safe repeat prescribing.

Main duties of the job

• Working with the MDT to achieve targets set in the Direct Enhanced Services.
• Reviewing patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. diabetes, asthma). This may include reviewing the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines, ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation).
• Answering relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions.
• Undertaking clinical medication reviews with patients (including those who are house bound) and carers and producing recommendations on prescribing and monitoring.
• Providing telephone and written advice for patients with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines, including online queries.
• Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate.
• Work with PCN registered Care Homes and Residential Care Homes and reviewing specific medication issue(s).
• Answer queries regarding local policies and procedures, training and vaccinations.
• Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches for the PCN.
• Analysing, interpreting, and presenting PCN medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.

About us

The Deben Health Group PCN is set in picturesque Suffolk, just outside Woodbridge and is close to the Historic Sutton Hoo and with beautiful Constable country nearby. We compromise of four member practices, Wickham Market Medical Centre, The Peninsula Practice, Little St Johns Street Surgery and Framfield House Surgery, with a joint patient population of 40,000 (approximately), each with its unique strengths and expertise.

Our aim is to leverage these strengths and foster collaboration among our network members to deliver its key objectives contained in the Directed Enhanced Service Contract (DES) from NHS England and NHS Improvement and enhance the quality and efficiency of care delivery and By working together, we can offer a wide range of services, support and coordinated care effectively, and improve patient outcomes.