TLCP PCN CLINICAL PHARMACIST
| Posting date: | 21 November 2023 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 April 2024 |
| Location: | London, SE13 7SX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | U0101-23-0015 |
Summary
Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across PCNs and the wider health and social care system. Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties), liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation; and be part of a professional clinical network and have access to appropriate clinical supervision High risk drug monitoring, and Get involved in audits, set by CCG or towards borough wide aims and targets. Run searches for local and national medication alerts/shortages. 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 to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement Patient facing Clinical Medication Review Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring. Support the pharmacist team to provide clinical medication review in care home/domiciliary Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments Managing caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence. Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate Patient facing medicines support Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice 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 Do appropriate database searches, in keeping MHRA and NICE alerts/ guidance to support safe patient care. Unplanned hospital admissions Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions 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. 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). Comply with local medicines management requirements. 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. Present audit findings to improve service delivery as appropriate. Medicines Management Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance. Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations Monitor TLCP prescribing against the local health economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs). Assist TLCP in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system. Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance. Care Quality Commission Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. Public health To support public health campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public. Collaborative Working Relationships Recognises the roles of other colleagues within the primary care network and their role to patient care Demonstrates use of appropriate communication to gain the co-operation of relevant stakeholders (including patients, senior and peer colleagues, and other professionals, other NHS/private organisations e.g. CCGs) Demonstrates ability to work as a member of a team Can recognise personal limitations and refer to more appropriate colleague(s) when necessary Actively work toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within and outside the practice and locality Foster and maintain strong links with all services across locality Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and sustain such relationships Demonstrates ability to integrate general practice with community and hospital pharmacy teams Liaises with CCG colleagues including CCG Pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit Liaises with CCG pharmacists and Heads of Medicines Management/ Optimisation to benefit from peer support Liaises with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients including but not limited to Patients, GP, nurses and other practice staff Other healthcare professionals including PCN pharmacy technicians, social prescribers, physician associates, dentists, health and social care teams and dieticians etc. Locality / GP prescribing lead Locality managers Community nurses and other allied health professionals Community and hospital pharmacy teams Hospital staff with responsibilities for prescribing and medicines optimisation Leadership: Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace. Demonstrate understanding of, and contributes to, the workplace vision Engages with Patient Participation Groups (PPGs) and involves PPGs in development of the role and practices Demonstrates ability to improve quality within limitations of service - Have basic knowledge of Quality Improvement (QI) Methodology. Reviews yearly progress and develops clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others. Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve goals Promotes diversity and equality in people management techniques and leads by example. Management: Demonstrate understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service Demonstrate understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation Demonstrate understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol Follows professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management Demonstrate ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team Secondary Responsibilities In addition to the primary responsibilities, the PCN Clinical pharmacist role will be to support TLCP Vision