PCN Clinical Pharmacist
| Posting date: | 11 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £45,000.00 to £50,000.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £45000.00 - £50000.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 June 2024 |
| Location: | Northampton, NN3 8DW |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A5509-24-0006 |
Summary
Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility Undertake SMRs in patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required. Using tools available to identify and prioritise patients according to clinical risk and contract requirements. Review the ongoing 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 clinicians or action recommendation for medicine improvement as appropriate. Involves patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidelines. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines. Provide patient facing and telephone clinics for those with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines in the practice. Answers 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. Review the use of medicines most 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 high-risk patient groups. 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. 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). Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making. Undertake simple audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team. Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance. Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation. Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. To support public health campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the public.