Clinical Pharmacists/Early Career Pharmacists
| Posting date: | 15 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £44,158.54 to £48,230.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £44158.54 - £48230.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 May 2024 |
| Location: | Chesterfield, S41 8NG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A3065-24-0007 |
Summary
Key duties and responsibilities 1. Patient facing medicines support Hold clinics for patients requiring medication reviews i.e. a review of the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicine taking. Provide a telephone support for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines. 2. Structured Medication Reviews (SMRs) Undertake structured medication reviews with patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring. 3. Care home structured medication reviews Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacist, nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration. 4. Long-term condition Clinics See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. Respiratory, Cardiovascular and Diabetes). Review the on-going needfor 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. 5. Patient facing Domiciliary Structured Medication Reviews Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacists, nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences. 6. 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. 7. 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 high-risk patient groups. 8. 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 high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in Care Homes). 9. Medicine information to practice staff and patients Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other network 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. 10. Signposting Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate time period e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc. 11. Repeat prescribing 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. 12. 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). 13. Information management Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making. 14. Medicines quality improvement Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs and the PCN team, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the relevant practice team. 15. Medicines safety Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance. 16. Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations Monitor practice 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 practices in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on each practices computer system.Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance. Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages. 17. Education and Training Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation. 18. Care Quality Commission Work with the general practice teams to ensure the practices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. 19. Public health To support public health campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public. 20. Collaborative working arrangements Participate in the PCN MDT. Liaise with CCG colleagues including CCG pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit. Liaise with colleagues including Royal Primary Care, CCG,STP/ICS Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians onprescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefitLiaise with colleagues including CCG,STP/ICS Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Heads ofMedicines Management/Optimisation to benefit from peer support.Foster and maintain strong links with all services across the PCN and neighbouring networks. Explore the potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate andsustain such relationships. Liaise with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit of patients Professional development Work with your line manager to undertake continual personal and professional development, taking an active part in reviewing and developing the role and responsibilities. Adhere to organisational policies and procedures, including confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and health and safety. Work with your line manager to access regular clinical supervision, to enable you to deal effectively with the difficult issues that people present. Review yearly progress and develop clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others. Participate in the delivery of formal education programmes. Demonstrate an understanding of current educational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keep up to date with relevant clinical practice. Research and Evaluation Critically evaluate and review literature. Identify where there is a gap in the evidence base to support practice. Generate evidence suitable for presentations at practice and local level. Apply research evidence base into the workplace. Health and Safety/Risk Management Must comply at all times with the Health and Safety policies, in particular following safe working procedures and reporting incidents using the organisations Incident Reporting Systems Comply with the Data Protection Act (2018) and the Access to Health Records Act (1990). Equality and Diversity The post-holder must co-operate with all policies and procedures designed to ensure equality of employment. Co-workers, patients and visitors must be treated equally irrespective of gender, ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, religion etc Respect for Patient Confidentiality The post-holder should respect patient confidentiality at all times and not divulge patient information unless sanctioned by the requirements of the role. Special working conditions The post holder is required to travel independently between work sites and to attend meetings etc hosted by other agencies. Miscellaneous Work as part of the team to seek feedback, continually improve the service and contribute to business planning. Undertake any tasks consistent with the level of the post and the scope of the role, ensuring that work is delivered in a timely and effective manner. Duties may vary from time to time, without changing the general character of the post or the level of responsibility.