PCN Clinical Pharmacist- Springfield Park PCN
| Posting date: | 23 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £22,600.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £22600.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, N16 5JF |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | U0090-24-0008 |
Summary
The PCN Clinical Pharmacist will: work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines to support the management of acute and long-term conditions be a prescriber, or completing training to become a prescriber, and work with and alongside the general practice team; be responsible for the management of patients with long term conditions and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly and those with multiple co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD, asthma, diabetes and cardiovascular disease) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP Stop Over Medication Programme); provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the PCNs practice(s) and to help in tackling inequalities; provide leadership in the practice on medicines optimisation systems and processes and quality improvement contribute to meeting the Quality and outcomes Framework (QoF) targets, enhanced services and the Investment and Impact Fund (IIF) indicators through Structured Medication Reviews (SMRs), support to improve the patients knowledge of their conditions and associated treatments and therefore improve adherence to medication, reduce waste and promote selfcare. Have a lead role in supporting integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) as part of the pharmacy integration agenda to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload; build 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 disabilities). Key aspects of PCN pharmacist role Patient facing role undertaking face to face medications reviews for: patients with long term conditions on polypharmacy housebound patients chronic disease management areas identified as a priority area within the PCN Review patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required. Review on-going need for each medicine, assess monitoring requirements and support patients to ensure treatment is safe, appropriate and optimised for maximum clinical benefit. Discuss recommendations and outcomes with relevant members of the PCN team and provide appropriate and timely follow up. Support patients to optimise medicines by providing additional written patient information leaflets, and liaise with community pharmacists about the need for special requirements to aid adherence. Management of Common/Minor Ailments Support practices in improving patient access for minor ailments and acute presentations. Promote the importance of self-care and signpost patients to community pharmacy led services e.g. hypertension case finding, new medicines service etc. Medicines Information to Practice Staff and Patients Support resolution of medicines queries from the practice team, PCN team, community pharmacists and patients. Provide medicines optimisation updates at clinical meetings on to inform and improve prescribing within the practice. Analyse, interpret and present relevant prescribing data, including audit findings, to practice staff regularly to highlight prescribing issues. Communicate recommended actions relating to medication and medical device safety alerts. Medicines Reconciliation 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 resolve medication issues upon discharge to ensure a seamless transfer of care for the patient. Commissioned improvements for QIPP and medicines optimisation Support the practice and the PCN in delivering the outcomes as required in the medicines section of the Clinical Commissioning Contract Signposting Be fully aware of the vast array of services available to support patients and signpost patients and refer appropriately e.g. social prescriber, specialist referral etc. Repeat Prescribing Review, implement and support adherence to the practice repeat prescribing policy. Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions, flagging up those patients needing a review. Ensure patients on repeat prescriptions have the required monitoring and assessments undertaken as appropriate to their condition(s) and medicines prescribed. Clinical Governance Communicate, action and support implementation of MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and other local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations. Undertake clinical audits in priority areas identified by the Medicines Optimisation Team or within the PCN and feedback results to practices and the PCN and support them in implementing recommendations. Support practices and PCNs in identifying and reporting onto NRLS any incidents relating to medicines. Be involved in investigating medicines incidents and identifying and implementing any required system improvements. Support implementation of shared care protocols in practice, including processes to improve monitoring of high- risk drugs. Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews. Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through computer searches Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. Education and Training Contribute to the provision of education and training on medicines optimisation and specific therapeutic areas to healthcare professionals within the PCN and to the wider ICB geography, including the PCN pharmacy professional network meetings. Public Health To support public health campaigns. To provide specialist advice on all public health programmes available to the general public. General Undertake any other work supporting medicines optimisation in GP practices and the PCN commensurate with the banding of the post and which is agreed between the postholder and the manager