Senior Clinical Pharmacist
| Posting date: | 09 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £47,000.00 to £54,000.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47000.00 - £54000.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 May 2024 |
| Location: | Knaresborough, HG5 0UB |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | E0112-41 |
Summary
Management and leadership Day to day line management of clinical pharmacists and pharmacy technicians employed in the PCN. Working within YHN policies and procedures including all aspects of line management, appraisal, absence management, performance reviews and performance management, disciplinary and grievance etc with support from the YHN management team. Ensure the team are managed and supported in their personal and professional development. Identify work priorities for team members in conjunction with National and YHN priorities and with agreement of the clinical staff at the practices. Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services. Support and develop the PCN pharmacy team. Develop policies and protocols, implement best practice prescribing, learning, education and training. Organisational Have a leadership role in supporting further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload. Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across PCNs and the wider health and social care system. Analyse, interpret, and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making. Prepare performance reports and evaluation against designated KPIs as required Clinical Take responsibility for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP Stop Over Medication Programme); Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self care. 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 for specific disease areas. Be a prescriber, or be willing to undertake training to become a prescriber. Take a key role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, and liaison with specialist pharmacists (e.g. mental health, acute hospital specialists), and community pharmacists. Provide leadership to pharmacist colleagues in the clinical aspects of medicine reviews, clinical audit, practice research and governance. Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues. Quality Improvement Share outcomes of prescribing, clinical, service and patient outcomes audits within the PCN and across the locality in order to drive service and practice improvement. Respond to and act on MHRA drug alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance. implementing and communicating any medication changes required as a result. Monitor medicines and prescribing expenditure at practice level and propose efficiencies to ensure delivery within budget. Provide specialised advice and support in risk management, clinical governance issues and ensure compliance with medicines legislation, patient safety advisory notices and other established good practices to manage and minimise risk. 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