Job responsibilities
Cumberland House Surgery
Job Description
Role: Clinical Pharmacist
Responsible to: Practice Manager/ Practice Partners as
necessary
Base: Cumberland House Surgery
Salary: Negotiable
Job Summary:
The post holder is a clinical pharmacist, who acts within their
professional boundaries, supporting and working as part of a team within
general practice. This post will have a patient facing role and the post holder
should be a qualifiednon-medical prescriber or working towards this.
The post holder will provide primary support to general practice
staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will help
support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests,
and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer
prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing
both public and social care needs of patient in the GP Practice.
The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines
optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and
outcomes framework and enhanced services. The role is pivotal to improving the
quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion
to deliver excellent service within general practice.
Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility
Patient Facing Long-Term Condition Clinics
See (where appropriate)
patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation
is required (e.g. COPD, asthma).
Review the on-going need
for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support
patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their
medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation).
Make appropriate
recommendations for medicine improvement.
Patient Facing Clinical Medication Review
Undertake clinical
medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for prescribing
and monitoring.
Patient Facing Domiciliary Clinical Medication Review
Undertake clinical
medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for on prescribing
and monitoring.
Attend and refer
patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.
Telephone Medicines Support
Provide a telephone help
line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.
Medicine Information to Practice Staff and Patients
Answers 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.
Providing follow up for
patients to monitor the effect of any changes
Unplanned Hospital Admissions
Review the use of
medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and
re-admissions through audit and individual patient reviews.
Put in place changes to
reduce the prescribing of these medicines to highrisk patient groups.
Management of Medicines at Discharge from Hospital
To reconcile medicines
following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes,
including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with
patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines
they need post discharge.
Set up and manage
systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to highrisk groups of
patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).
Signposting
Ensure that patients are
referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level
of care within an appropriate period of time e.g. pathology results,
common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc.
Repeat Prescribing
Produce and implement a
practice repeat prescribing policy.
Manage the repeat
prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat
prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up
those needing a review.
Ensure patients have
appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.
Risk Stratification
Identification of
cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared
practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related,
medicine related, or both.
Service Development
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).
Information Management
Analyse, interpret and
present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision
making.
Medicines Quality Improvement
Undertake clinical
audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and
implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.
Medicines Safety
Implement changes to
medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and
national guidance.
Education and Training
Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on
therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
