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PCN Care Home Pharmacist - West of Waverley PCN
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 13 Awst 2024 |
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| Cyflog: | £43,742.00 i £49,614.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £43742.00 - £49614.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 27 Awst 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | Haslemere, GU27 2BJ |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | B0165-24-0020 |
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Purpose of the role To lead and support the work of the Primary Care Network to ensure that all care home residents receive an annual Structured Medication Review. To support patients to take their medication correctly and to ensure they get the best possible outcomes. Keep records of reviews and issues arising to identify trends. Feedback identified prescribing issues to support the care homes team in developing quality initiatives and action plans. Make amendments to patient records, written and/or computer, as appropriate to ensure agreed changes to therapy are actioned in a precise and systematic fashion. Liaise and communicate sensitively and effectively with patients and/or carers, who on occasions may be resistant to change, on subjects which are often of a very sensitive nature, on all aspects of good medicines management with the objective of optimising patient outcomes. Provide highly specialised medicines management support including prescribing information, advice and guidance to ensure effective, appropriate, cost-effective and safe prescribing to all prescribers, other healthcare professionals and support staff in the care homes sector including residential and nursing homes. Assist prescribers in managing the implementation of NICE guidance and other local or national guidance and the introduction of new therapies. Manage clinics for long term disease management within scope of practice in a care home setting e.g. hypertension, diabetes or asthma etc. Be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, those with multiple co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP Stop Over Medication Programme). Communicate to a prescriber any recommendations for changes identified in the reviews to ensure patients get the best use of their medicines. Or as an independent prescriber, be responsible for adjusting medications and arranging monitoring when needed. Be the first point of contact for medicines related queries across the care homes. To support the development of quality initiatives that address identified prescribing and medicines management issues, including those that cross interfaces. To work with colleagues to establish and develop good medicines management systems across the care homes sector. Work effectively and flexibly as part of the care homes team and the PCN pharmacy team across all practices within the PCN. Work with the Care Home Lead and GP leads in developing the strategic and operational management of the Enhanced Health in Care Homes Service. Demonstrate a good understanding of clinical governance and risk management and apply to work effectively alerting any risks and benefits when developing services and practice in new areas. Repeat prescribing To work with general practice, the care homes and community pharmacy to develop efficient repeat prescribing / dispensing systems to support care home prescribing across the whole sector. Medicines Optimisation Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the care homes conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services. Supporting the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within care homes. Be a prescriber, or completing training to become a prescriber, and work with and alongside the care home team. Work to improve Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) either though reviewing clinical coding to improve disease registers or individual indicators, flag to prescribers (if not already one) appropriate medications to initiate or arranging appropriate monitoring. Work with the care home team to help with Care Quality Commission (CQC) requirements around medication related issues. Work with the care homes team and CCG to reduce the number of items prescribed that appear on the national list of items that should not routinely be prescribed in primary care either directly if the medication can be purchased over the counter or as an independent prescriber by initiating alternatives or to appropriately refer patients to a prescriber. Working within a multidisciplinary team 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. 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, including those in primary care, secondary care, community pharmacy, mental and social care teams. Be part of a professional clinical network and have access to appropriate clinical supervision with the support of the PCN. The post-holder will be responsible for mentoring members of the pharmacy team working in care homes and will be supported in undertaking additional training through the Centre for Pharmacy Postgraduate Education if not already undertaking or qualified from an approved pathway like the Primary Care Pharmacy Educational Pathway. The post-holder will also be supported to complete a prescribing course if not already completed.