PCN Clinical Pharmacist
| Posting date: | 26 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 May 2024 |
| Location: | Waddington, LN5 9NT |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B0281-24-0001 |
Summary
The wide scope of this role is not an expectation of where the post holder will start but where they aim to be as they achieve the CPPE diploma, non-medical prescribing qualification and gain associated experience. 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 Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement. Patient facing clinical medication review Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring. Patient facing care home 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. Patient facing domiciliary clinical medication review 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. Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments Manage caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence. Signpost to community pharmacy and refer to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate. Patient facing medicines support Provide patient facing clinics for those with medicines queries. Telephone medicines support Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines. Medicine information to practice staff and patients Answer relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines. Suggest and recommend solutions. Provide follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes. 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. Management of medicines at discharge from hospital 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. Signposting Ensure patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time. Repeat prescribing Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy. 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. Risk stratification Identify 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. Service development Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components. Information management Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision- making. Medicines quality improvement Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team. Medicines safety Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance. Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economy's 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 the practices computer system. Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance. Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages. Education and Training Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation. The post holder will: be responsible for the day-to-day planning of personal workloads follow departmental policies procedures and guidelines develop yourself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training and service redesign activities contribute to a patient safety culture through reporting and investigation of incidents and undertaking proactive measures to improve patient safety actively signpost patients to the correct healthcare professional maintain accurate clinical records of all patient consultations and related work review the latest guidance ensuring the practice conforms to NICE, CQC etc. support in the delivery of enhanced services and other service requirements on behalf of the PCN participate in the management of patient complaints when requested to do so and participate in the identification of any necessary learning brought about through clinical incidents and near-miss events undertake all mandatory training and induction programmes contribute to and embrace the spectrum of clinical governance attend a formal appraisal with their manager at least every 12 months. Once a performance/training objective has been set, progress will be reviewed on a regular basis so that new objectives can be agreed contribute to public health campaigns (e.g. flu clinics) through advice or direct care support delivery of QOF, incentive schemes, QIPP and other quality or cost effectiveness initiatives perform other general tasks as assigned. Health, Safety and Welfare The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Companys Health & Safety Policy, to include: identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks; making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills; reporting potential risks; reporting incidents and accidents; ensuring correct PPE is worn for the appropriate task; ensuring all areas are tidy and free from hazards; carrying out regular housekeeping; and ensuring manual handling and lifting techniques are used This role profile is not exhaustive. This role has supervisory responsibilities.