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Senior Clinical Pharmacist
| Posting date: | 06 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Negotiable |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 April 2025 |
| Location: | London, HA8 0AP |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | A5007-25-0000 |
Summary
Primary Roles and Responsibilities Medication Reviews Hold clinics for patients requiring face-to-face structured medication reviews i.e. a review of the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicine taking. Provide a telephone support for patients with questions, queries, and concerns about their medicines. Undertake structured medication reviews with patients with multi-morbidity and polypharmacy and implement own prescribing changes (as an independent prescriber) and order relevant monitoring test. Long Term Conditions See patients in long term condition clinics and implement improvements to patient's medicines, including de-prescribing. Manage own case load, run own long-term condition clinics in conjunction with GPs and support clinical decision making when medicine management input is required Review the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking. High-risk Medication Reviews Manage patients at risk of hospital admissions and harm from poor use of medicines. Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients with multi-morbidity and polypharmacy and implement own prescribing changes (as an independent prescriber) and order relevant monitoring tests. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case meetings. Repeat Prescribing Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy. Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates. Ensure patients are booked in for necessary monitoring tests where required. Management of Medicines at Discharge from Hospital Management of medicines at discharge from hospital To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes manage these changes without referral to a GP. Perform a clinical medication review, produce a post discharge medicines care plan including dose titration and booking of follow up tests and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge. Medicines Safety Working with patients, the network and primary care teams to minimise risks through medicines optimisation. Review national and local policy and guidance that affects patient safety using medicines, including MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and emerging evidence form clinical trials. Manage the process of implementing changes to medicines and guidance for practitioners. Develop and put into place protocols for managing patients on high-risk medications and train admin/reception staff in these to optimise safe management of these patients. Design, develop and implement of clinical system searches to identify cohorts of patients at high risk of hard from medicines, Cost Saving Make recommendations for, and manage pharmacy technicians to, make changes to medicines (switches) designed to save on medicine costs where a medicine or product with lower acquisition cost is now available. Clinical Advice and Expertise on Medicines Answers all medicine-related enquiries from GPs and other practice staff with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Provide telephone advice for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes. Care Quality Commission To ensure the practice(s) are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. Training Provide education and training to the Practice staff on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.