Clinical Pharmacist
| Posting date: | 16 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 April 2024 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE2 1XD |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A2936-24-0001 |
Summary
The following are the core responsibilities of the Clinical Pharmacist. There may be on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks. To work under the day-to-day management of the Lead Pharmacist and with guidance and oversight from GP practice mentors and clinical leads; to support the practice and patients with your pharmaceutical expertise, to optimise the use of medicines, deliver Long Term Conditions management and support interface communications between primary, secondary and other care settings to deliver improved care and patient outcomes, promoting safety, patient engagement and patient self-management; to do this in a manner that is integrated with the primary health care teams so as to reduce the workload on GPs, including referrals to community pharmacy for New Medicines Service (NMS) and Community Pharmacy Consultation Service (CPCS)/Pharmacy First. To undertake level 2 and level 3 reviews of medicines use and apply medicines optimisation principles. To review medication requests and repeat prescriptions and discharge summaries on behalf of the practices, working with GP staff to ensure safe, appropriate systems are operating. To provide pharmaceutical advice and expertise to other prescribers and practitioners in our practices. To work closely with the GPs, nurses and other healthcare staff in our practices to resolve day-to-day medicines issues through the application of pharmaceutical knowledge. To offer patient-facing and person-centred consultations; to manage a caseload of patients within a multidisciplinary general practice team, offering outcome-focused medication review and prescribing to manage patients where medicines use needs to be optimised e.g., single condition with sub-optimal outcomes, compliance issues, and/or high-risk medicines and/or high risk or frail patients. To deliver clinics via patient appointments or as drop-in services; focus on those conditions that are prioritised by the practice, acting in partnership with practice nurses, GPs and with the other pharmacists in the team to ensure that specialist and highly specialist skills are used to best effect for our patients and our practices. To use technology e.g., smart phone apps to enable you to engage and empower patients and their carers, and by doing so scaleup the reach that you, other pharmacists and our practices can have to promote effective self-care and patient empowerment. To make effective use of information from practice systems e.g., through searches and audit, to improve the health of the population, managing resources effectively including your own time, to relieve pressure on the practice workforce. To provide support and advice for GPs and practice nurses, including advanced practitioners on the use of medicines and new medicines and medicines-use policies e.g., shared care, new pathways of care as new drugs are accepted for GP prescribing and to support the work of the practice, to develop and/or implement new models of care. To work with community pharmacists and local pharmacists to improve medicines management at the interface, on admission and particularly at discharge and where high-risk medicines are involved, including shared-care issues acting on behalf of the practice.