PCN Clinical Pharmacist

You will be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy and those with multiple co-morbidities. Require understanding of the principles of medicines optimisation throughout the PCN and practice teams, promoting good practice in line with national and local requirements.

Action clinical letters and discharge summaries, providing leadership on person centred medicine optimisation and quality improvement. Assist with drug monitoring including high risk drug monitoring, switching medications to agreed and approved protocols. Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process, by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions & medicines reaching review dates, minimising clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.

The post holder will provide support to meet the individual needs of Practices. Responsibilities may vary across Practices and can include:

Repeat prescribing and medication reviews.

Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.

Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing and address public health and social needs of patients through clinical medication review. This would be a level 3 medication review looking at the patients full clinical condition e.g. blood monitoring, interface care arrangements, social isolation.

Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues.

Interface with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes between primary care professionals including the promotion of the repeat dispensing service.

Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates.

Manage Practice formularies to improve the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of prescribing.

Work with primary care professionals and patients to implement NICE and other evidence based guidelines.

Act as a source of medicines information for all of the Practice team and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives if stock issues).

Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.

Confidentiality

While seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow up to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately. In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers.

They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.

Information may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the PCN policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Health and Safety

The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the PCN Health and Safety policy.

Safeguarding

All employees are responsible for taking all reasonable measures to ensure that the risk of harm to children and vulnerable adults are minimised. They should take all appropriate actions to address concerns, working to agreed local policies and procedures, including the guidance on Safeguarding, in partnership with other relevant agencies. This includes accessing appropriate training, advice, and support.

Disclosure and Barring Services

This post will be subject to a DBS Disclosure check at the point of recruitment and thereafter.

Infection Control

All employees have an individual responsibility to have knowledge of and employ the basic principles of infection prevention and control practice. All employees must comply with Infection Prevention and Control mandatory training requirements.

Equality and Diversity

The post holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers, and colleagues.

BWM PCN compromises of four member practices with a joint patient population of 30,000 (approximately), each with its unique strengths and expertise. Our aim is to leverage these strengths and foster collaboration among our network members to deliver its key objectives contained in the Directed Enhanced Service Contract (DES) from NHS England and NHS Improvement and enhance the quality and efficiency of care delivery and by working together, we can offer a wide range of services, support and coordinated care effectively, and improve patient outcomes.

Qualifications

Experience