PCN Clinical Pharmacist

You will take responsibility for

areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical

medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.

You'll provide primary support to general practice staff on prescription and

medication queries - supporting the repeat prescription system, dealing with

acute prescription requests, and managing medicines reconciliation on transfer

of care and systems for safer prescribing.

You will provide clinical

leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement, manage aspects of

the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services, and help the practice

integrate with community and hospital pharmacy to improve patient outcomes and

manage workload. You will be supported to develop your role towards becoming a

non-medical prescriber.

Patient-facing long-term condition clinics

See (where appropriate) patients with single or

multiple medical problems requiring medicine optimisation (e.g. hypertension,

asthma)

Review the ongoing need for each medicine and

monitoring needs, support patients with their medicines taking, and make

appropriate recommendations to GPs for medicine improvement

Patient-facing clinical medication review

Undertake clinical medication reviews and produce

recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GPs on

prescribing and monitoring

Patient-facing care home medication reviews

Undertake structured medication reviews and produce

recommendations for the senior clinical pharmacist, nurses or GPs

Work with care home staff to improve safety of

medicines ordering and administration

Patient-facing domiciliary clinical medication

review

Undertake structured medication reviews and produce

recommendations for nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring

Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case

conferences

Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments

Manage a caseload of patients with

common/minor/self-limiting ailments, working within your scope of practice and

limits of competence

Signpost to community pharmacy and refer to GPs or

other healthcare professionals where appropriate

Medicines support (patient-facing and telephone)

Provide patient-facing and telephone clinics for those

with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines

Medicine information to practice staff and

patients

Answer medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other

practice staff, other healthcare teams and patients, suggesting and

recommending solutions

Provide follow-up for patients to monitor the effect of

any changes

Unplanned hospital admissions

Review use of medicines most commonly associated with

unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual

patient reviews

Put in place changes to reduce prescribing of these

medicines to high-risk patient groups

Management of medicines at discharge from hospital

Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals,

intermediate care and into care homes, identifying and rectifying unexplained

changes

Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of

medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients

Ensure patients are referred to the appropriate

healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate

timeframe

Repeat prescribing

Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing

policy

Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process,

ensuring appropriate monitoring tests are in place

Risk stratification

Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from

medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches

Medicines quality improvement and safety

Undertake clinical audits of prescribing, feedback

results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team

Implement changes to medicines resulting from MHRA

alerts, product withdrawals and other local and national guidance

Guidelines, formulary and CQC

Monitor practice prescribing against the local health

economy's RAG list and make recommendations to GPs

Assist practices in maintaining a practice formulary

and audit compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance

Work with the practice team to ensure compliance with

CQC standards where medicines are involved

Education, training and public health

Provide education and training to the primary

healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation

Support public health campaigns and provide specialist

knowledge on public health programmes

Interested?We'd love to meet you for an

informal visit or chat - come and see what makes The Health Triangle PCN

different.

Vonnie Phillips, Hiring Manager

Email: vonnie.phillips@nhs.net

We're a well-established,

friendly and forward-thinking group of practices covering the area of

Bracknell, Crowthorne, Sandhurst and Owlsmoor. Our large, growing

multidisciplinary team - including GPs, nurses, paramedic practitioners,

clinical pharmacists, first contact physiotherapists, nursing associates, a

mental health practitioner, social prescribers and care coordinators - works

collaboratively to deliver high-quality, innovative and compassionate care. One of our practices is a

training practice, and training is always supported. Whether you're newly

qualified or an experienced pharmacist, you'll find an environment that is

supportive, progressive and genuinely rewarding.

Competitive salary £40,000 £52,000 per annum

Structured support to develop your role, including

working towards an Independent Prescriber (IP) qualification

Regular in-house training and education sessions,

supervision, and multi-professional learning opportunities

Genuine support to develop clinical special interests,

with dedicated time built into your role

Company pension, sick pay and private medical insurance

Flexitime, free flu jabs, free/on-site parking and

employee discount

Company events

Qualifications

Essential: - Degree in Pharmacy, MPharm/ BPharm; - GPhC Registered; - IP Qualified or working towards an IP qualification; - Full driving licence

Desirable: - Member of the RPS; - Clinical Diploma; - Minor Ailments qualification; - Clinical systems trained (EMIS)

Experience

Essential: - General practice experience and understanding of medicines optimisation roles