Clinical Practice Pharmacist
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 02 Mehefin 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Negotiable |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 13 Mehefin 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Blackpool, FY4 3AD |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | A2720-25-0001 |
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Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas. Provide pharmaceutical consultations to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team. Provide proactive leadership on medicines and prescribing systems to the practice team, patients, and their carers. Improve patient and carer understanding of confidence in and compliance with their medication. Provide advice and answer medication related queries from patients and staff Organise and oversee the practices medicines optimisation systems including the repeat prescribing and medication review systems. Work with the GP Practices within the Primary Care Network to support them with implementation of the PCN DES and day-to-day general practice. Promote high quality, cost-effective prescribing in primary care, supporting the specifications within the PCN DES, including Structured Medication Reviews, Enhanced Health in Care Homes and other medicines optimisation tasks as determined by the Practice / PCN. Improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education to improve performance against NICE standards, and clinical and prescribing guidance. Develop yourself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training, and service redesign activities. Contribute to a patient safety culture through reporting and investigation of medicines incidents and undertaking proactive measures to improve patient safety. Work with community pharmacists, hospital pharmacists, and other stakeholders in the medicines supply chain to improve patient experience and manage incidents. Deliver training, mentoring and guidance to other clinicians and staff on medicine issues. Respond to prescription requests from community patients, nursing/care home staff, pharmacy staff and GPs, processing them within recognised timescales (e.g. 48 hours for routine prescriptions and same day for urgent prescriptions). This can include re-routing prescriptions to out of hours pharmacies for same day delivery. Process monthly prescriptions for nursing/care homes, checking for changes and adherence/over-ordering issues. Use practice/ICB templates to record near patient monitoring for high-risk drugs. Identify blood tests, recalls and reviews using established protocols and forward these to the appropriate clinician. Support and respond to medicines-related queries from medical and nursing colleagues and from patients and relatives via face to face, via phone or via email. Queries can include issues with interactions or ADRs, availability of stock, swallowing difficulties, cost-effectiveness, urgent requests or extra supplies. Review hospital discharge notifications and outpatient hospital letters and reconcile medication against current repeats, flagging up and correcting discrepancies. Promote safe use of medication, reporting of medicines-related incidents and pro-actively preventing safeguarding incidents. Use knowledge of GP computer prescribing systems and community pharmacy dispensing systems to advise on solving problems related to prescribing/dispensing and other areas to develop the skills of practice and pharmacy staff. Support the review of care home procedures, making recommendations for potential improvements. Observe the principles of clinical governance when developing policies, protocols, guidelines, SOPs and procedures. Support practice prescribing budgets by on-going monitoring, audit and analysis of drug use and support practices in reviewing, developing and enhancing cost-effective prescribing. This includes staying aware of latest QIPP and other cost targets. Help review medication with the pharmacists and make recommendations for prescribing changes to improve outcome and ensure prescribing of the most cost-effective product.