Primary Care Pharmacist - Haywards Heath Villages PCN
| Posting date: | 22 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £41,351.78 to £48,450.20 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £41351.78 - £48450.20 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 May 2024 |
| Location: | Haywards Heath, RH17 5BQ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B0141-24-0027 |
Summary
Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility (from start of post) 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 GPs and other members of the MDT for medicine improvement. Patient facing Clinical Medication Review: Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for nurses and/or GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Patient facing medicines support: Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice. Telephone medicines support: Provide telephone support for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines Medicine information to practice staff and patients: Act as a source of medicines information for all of the practice team and patients, (such as around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives (i.e. around out of stocks) Suggesting and recommending solutions 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 right care. Ensuring that the addition of the pharmacist to the clinical team results in a reduction in workload for other clinicians Repeat Prescribing: Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy in line with the recommendations Medicines Management Team. 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 Frailty: Support the contractual requirements to support frail patients with their medication including medication review and some patient identification (i.e. patients with problematic polypharmacy). 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. Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations: Work with MMT to support the implementation of local and national guidelines including NICE, Surrey PAD etc. Liaise with hospital colleagues where prescribing needs to be returned to specialists Education and training: Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation 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 Medicines Safety: Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance Role May Evolve to Include: 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. Managing of common/minor/self-limiting ailments Managing caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate Please see full Job Description for further information.