Senior Clinical Pharmacist Bishop Auckland
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 01 Rhagfyr 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | £58,443.00 i £59,661.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £58443.00 - £59661.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 14 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Bishop Auckland, DL14 6XB |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | U0041-25-0017 |
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The pharmacist will provide direct line management for up to 5 clinical Pharmacists within their PCN, in addition to the number of pharmacy technicians within the PCN. The additional responsibilities of a PCN Senior Clinical Pharmacist to the PCN Clinical Pharmacist role would include: Providing a minimum of one formal clinical supervision session per PCN pharmacist per month Monthly one-to-one meeting with each PCN pharmacist (Max of 5) and Pharmacy Technicians Responsibility for each PCN pharmacists training and development Planning and implementation of new staff inductions Provide the first line of support for queries/issues Responsible for rota management and absence requests Attending PCN meetings where necessary on behalf of the pharmacy team Patient facing long-term condition clinics Patient facing clinical medication reviews Patient facing care home medication reviews Risk stratification of high risk drugs/patients Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments Telephone medicines support Management of medicines at discharge from hospital Medicine information to practice staff and patients Repeat prescribing and repeat dispensing Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations Provide highly specialist advice and recommendations to other healthcare professionals in writing by person or telephone Undertake prescription screening, medication review, patient drug history taking, counselling and specialist drug ordering Prescribing where appropriate in areas of suitable clinical competence Specific responsibilities The Senior Pharmacist is responsible and accountable for: Reviewing the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines, ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to other clinical pharmacists GPs for medicine improvement. Undertaking clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring. Undertaking clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacist, nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration. Undertaking clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacists, nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences Managing caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence. Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate Providing patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice Providing a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines. Answering relevant medicine--related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes Reviewing the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups. Reconciling medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge. Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes). Ensuring that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc Reviewing, amending and implementing a practice repeat prescribing policy. Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review. Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required. Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both. Contributing pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets). Using interpreting and presenting medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision-making. Undertaking clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs or on behalf of the Federation, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team. Implementing changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance. Assisting ICB colleagues to monitor practice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs). Assist practices and ICB colleagues in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system. Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance. Cascade and provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages Providing education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation. Working with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. Supporting public health campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public