Avon Valley PCN Clinical Pharmacist
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 29 Rhagfyr 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | Negotiable |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 16 Ionawr 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Fordingbridge, SP6 1RS |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | A3153-25-0006 |
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To be part of a multi-skilled primary care team in a patient facing role providing patient centred medical services based on patient needs with a focus on continuity of care. Clinical Medication Review Be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially older people, people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities (in particular frailty, COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP Stop Over Medication Programme) Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote selfcare Review the on-going need for each medication, ensuring monitoring needs are performed and use the opportunity to support patients achieve better health outcomes through shared decision-making conversations 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 Make appropriate recommendations to GPs when necessary Long-term condition clinics Help to set up pharmacist run long term condition clinics particularly for patients with complicated medication regimes Care Home Medication Reviews Undertake clinical medication reviews, formulate a medicines optimisation plan jointly with the patient/ carer and facilitate its implementation by working with other professionals, services and agencies as necessary Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration. Medicines information Answers relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams and patients. Suggest and recommend solutions using clinical knowledge and trusted pharmaceutical sources Medicine Reconciliation Support the pharmacy team to carry out medication reviews and reconciliation for care home patients and for patients whose care is transferred back into primary care. Medicines Management Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing locally. Support the Pharmacy team to manage blood monitoring of High-Risk Drugs and DOAC dose checking across the PCN. Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the PCNs practices and to help in tackling inequalities Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, whilst contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services Undertake and lead on any specific medicines optimisation-based projects/portfolio areas of work as may be required by the Pharmacy Team Collaborating Working Relationships Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across PCNs and the wider health and social care system Have a leadership role in supporting further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists, liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation Education and Training Be a prescriber and work with and alongside the general practice team Provide specialist education to pharmacy colleagues, nursing staff and GPs on aspects of medicines optimisation Demonstrate self-development through continuous professional development Develop a good working knowledge of the clinical systems used by the practices Attend internal and external meetings and any training courses and supervision sessions as required. Be part of a professional clinical network and have access to appropriate clinical supervision. Practice Targets Support the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings. This will be achieved through undertaking clinical audits, supporting quality improvement measures and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services. Support the delivery of the pharmacy and medicines optimisation elements of the network service specifications within the Network Contract DES Service development Work with colleagues to create processes which offer improvement in consistency and delivery of our services to patients. Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services Identify areas of good practice and help to disseminate across the PCN To liaise with the practices and, where practicable, to standardise the medicines management process across the PCN Undertake any other duties as may reasonably be required from time to time. The applicant will need to have access to transport as they may need to travel across the whole of the Avon Valley Primary Care Network area (Ringwood, Bransgore and Fordingbridge) over the course of a working week.