Clinical Pharmacist
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 22 May 2024 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Negotiable |
| Oriau: | Full time |
| Dyddiad cau: | 31 August 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | Cornwall, PL15 9HH |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Permanent |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | A4552-24-0007 |
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Identify patients that require medication reviews and conduct appropriate medication review clinics or home visits if required by the practice. Liaising with carers, Community Health teams or social care staff to optimise drug therapy, reduce polypharmacy and minimise unnecessary waste, communicating directly with patients as necessary. Provide medicines and long-term disease advice and support to GPs and practice staff, registeredpatients, and the wider practice team such as community staff (district nurses, midwives, and physiotherapists) where appropriate. Discuss complex and sensitive information with patients during medication reviews, including medical history, lifestyle and personal circumstances and refer to external service providers and medical professionals as appropriate. Improve patient and carer understanding of, confidence in and compliance with their medications. Help support the safe and effective operation of the prescribing system in the GP practice, including updating repeat medication regimes, issuing of appropriate acute prescriptions, ordering relevant laboratory testing, and if required, when necessary, completing patient referrals (for example audiology, x-ray, diabetes prevention schemes). Provide pharmaceutical support to the GPs to enable them to develop, implement and monitor an agreed prescribing plan which meets the objectives of the medicines management plan. Assist practice and care settings in developing formularies, guidelines and policies to ensure the implementation of NICE guidelines, National Service Frameworks and the requirements of the medicines-related aspects of the GMS contract. Advise GPs, care staff and primary health care teams on risk management processes relating to the prescribing and monitoring of specialist drugs e.g. controlled drugs and those subject to shared care arrangements. Support practice to review specific areas of prescribing, specified by the line management or identified with the GP prescribing lead, including the interpretation of e-PACT data and the use of practice information to review prescribing and identify areas for action. Assist with the development and ongoing review of practice policy with regard to repeat prescribing systems and repeat dispensing to encourage the implementation of prescribing guidance and monitoring guidelines where appropriate. Liaise with Community Pharmacists to encourage them to reinforce changes made, encouraging them to identify savings which can be achieved with regard to generics, dose optimisations etc. and to assist in building their relationship with the practice. Answer any medicine related queries from GPs, care settings, practice staff, PALS, social care staff and the patients in a timely and appropriate manner, using professional judgement where specific guidance is unavailable. Provide advice and support to improve the disease registers within each practice to ensure all suitable patients are identified and offered suitable treatment and monitoring for their condition. Facilitate and participate in multi-disciplinary meetings related to prescribing topics and to engage in the training of other healthcare professionals and practice staff on matters relating to medicines usage. Attend primary/secondary care interface meetings in designated specialist therapeutic areas to improve the cost effective and evidence-based use of medicines across locality and develop links with the hospital pharmacists involved in these areas. Undertake any other duties appropriate to the grade as allocated by line management. Undertake clinical medication reviews. QOF & Enhanced Services areas of responsibility to maximise achievement Encourage cost effect prescribing within the practice. Review all safety alerts, ensuring the required actions are taken. Review medication for all newly registered patients.