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Independent Prescriber
| Posting date: | 03 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | £52,378.00 to £55,356.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £52378.00 - £55356.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 January 2025 |
| Location: | London, SW1H 9BL |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B0427-JOB0104 |
Summary
Role Purpose Provide high quality service delivery to people who use substances and their significant others. Contribute to the overall performance of designated service(s) to ensure that contractual output targets and high clinical standards are achieved. Provide safe, effective and evidence-based clinical, including prescribed interventions within the designated services and partnership agencies as required by service configuration. Key duties and activities of the role Work as a registered health care professional prescriber, in designated services. Deliver health and wellbeing interventions for designated services. Assist in the development of systems, pathways and documents that promote holistic delivery of service, e.g. criminal justice, blood borne viruses. Provide clinical, including prescribing interventions associated with the designated services, ensuring that they are in line with all relevant legislation, best practice guidance, professional and CQC standards and organisational documents. Ensure appropriate clinical management of people who use the designated services. Encourage people using services to access education and employment services and holistic health, wellbeing, harm reduction and recovery support activities. Contribute to ensuring effective use of clinical resources, including staffing, consideration of financial and contractual issues for the designated services. Promote and support organisational interface, for example with commissioners, suppliers, primary and secondary care services, including public health, wholesalers, community pharmacy and GPs and hospitals respectively. Assist implementation of medicines, drug, devices, infection control etc, alert responses in collaboration with the Clinical Department. Be involved in relevant audits, ongoing monitoring and implementation of associated recommendations and action plans. Contribute to the collation and use of clinical data and have involvement in subsequent improvements required, relating to quality abd performance indicators. Contribute to the reporting, investigating and resolution of incidents, complaints and disciplinary matters to reduce the risk of recurrence. Provide competency assessment and training of staff, students, volunteers, identify and support development needs of others and support colleagues to develop in their roles to deliver excellent services. Undertake continuing professional development to maintain confidence and competence, to meet organisational and professional regulator revalidation requirements. Work in line with all relevant legislation, best practice guidance, professional and CQC standards and organisational documents. Provide advice and guidance on clinical, including prescribing issues to staff working in the designated service(s), as well as other colleagues and partner agencies. Work alongside management and their direct reports to support a one team approach. Where relevant, provide clinical and line management supervision for other staff and support facilitation of relevant meetings and training events.