Job responsibilities
Undertake patient
facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through
shared-decision making conversations with patients
Carry out medicines
optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g. checking inhaler
technique), supporting medication reviews, and medicines reconciliation. Where required, utilise consultation skills
to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines
effectively
Support, as
determined by the PCN, medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new
care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between
care settings and linking with local community pharmacists
Provide specialist
expertise, where competent, to address both the public health and social care
needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in
tackling local health inequalities
Take a central role
in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising with specialist
pharmacists for more complex patients
Support initiatives
for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing
Assist in the
delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient
safety audits
Support the
implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP
practices, care homes and other primary care settings. This will be achieved through undertaking
clinical audits (e.g. use of antibiotics), supporting quality improvement
measures and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced
services.
Reconcile the
medicines of patients whose care is transferred back to primary care in a
timely and effective manner liaising with patients and other providers to
ensure patients receive appropriate medication on discharge
Proactively engage
with patients whose care has been transferred to reduce potential readmission
including identifying and rectifying unexplained variation
Work with pharmacy
service team to develop safe, effective and efficient systems for the repeat
prescribing of medication at scale across the four GP sites.
Work with pharmacy
service team to develop and implement systems to ensure the effective and
continuous supply of medication to high risk patients
Work with pharmacy
service team to develop and implement systems to ensure safe and effective
management of high risk medication
Work with pharmacy
services to develop and implement changes to medicines in line with MHRA
alerts, product withdrawal and other local or national guidance
Provide feedback
and seek advice from pharmacist for patients where the post holder has clinical
concerns around competence to safely manage their medications
Manage requests to
prescribe medication from specialists in line with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
ICB formulary and locally agreed guidelines
Update patient
medication records in line with incoming clinical correspondence
Refer patients to
their community pharmacist for support with using their medicines
To provide advice
to GPs, staff and patients in changes to prescribing to support the improvement
of prescribing safety, quality and cost effectiveness
To respond to
medication queries form patients and staff in a professional manner referring
to the appropriate clinician in accordance with protocols and personal and
professional boundaries
Provide support to
patients to maximise the benefit from their medication
Provide telephone
support for patients with medication queries
Provide
professional telephone and written advice and support to patients and their
carers
To maintain full
and complete records of all patient contacts using appropriate clinical
templates and coding
Work with the PCN
multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation, including
implementing efficient ordering and return processes, and reducing wastage
Supervise practice
teams in supporting and streaming general prescription request, so as to allow
GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests
Provide leadership
for medicines optimisation systems across PCNs, supporting practices with a
range of services to get the best value from medicines by encouraging and
implementing Electronic Prescriptions, safe repeat prescribing systems, and
timely monitoring and management of high-risk medicines
Provide training
and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the
implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS)
Develop
relationships with other pharmacy technicians, pharmacists and members of the
multi-disciplinary team to support integration of the pharmacy team across
health and social care including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary
care and mental health
To work across
agilely across the four practices and across the PCN geographical area, as determined
by PCN management
