SWAGGA PCN Network Pharmacist
| Posting date: | 29 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £43,742 to £57,349 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £43742 - £57349 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 May 2024 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L25 0ND |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A5009-24-0001 |
Summary
The primary responsibilities of the role are to: Contribute to the network with pharmaceutical decisions and advise and support the PCN regarding the safe prescribing of medicines. This may include, for example, developing action plans to meet identified gaps in services and implementing those actions within their scope of practice or actioning medicines safety alerts. Undertake clinical medication review in patients with single or multiple medical problems. Review management of long-term conditions, assess the patients needs and optimise their medications to support in achieving better health outcomes. Pharmacists will be expected to challenge potentially inappropriate polypharmacy. Reviews will be undertaken as virtual/telephone consultations or face to face: in SWAGGA member practices; as domiciliary visits or in care homes. Provide clinical support on quality improvement and clinical audit to support the PCN in meeting medicines related QOF targets. Improve safe prescribing through local interpretation of the national medicines safety dashboard, identification of areas of risk or the need for improvement and development of action plans to meet the gap, always meeting CQC standards and reporting new information to the wider team. Improve patient outcomes through medicines optimisation when patients move between care settings both into and out of the Acute Trust. Provide patient facing clinical sessions, concentrating on achievement of QOF, quality improvement or safer prescribing for a specified patient cohort. Work to ensure medicines related service requirements of the PCN DES are addressed, collaborating with colleagues throughout the Network to help nurture a robust team. All pharmacists annotated on the GPhC register as independent prescribers will be expected to prescribe as part of their role. They must have personal indemnity insurance that includes the prescribing role and be approved to undertake an independent prescribing role. Pharmacist prescribers must ensure they prescribe within competence from a formulary approved by the team and in line with the NMP Policy. The post holder will also be required to travel from practice to practice and to other venues during fulfilment of their duties. A full UK Drivers Licence is therefore essential