Prescribing Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Core Duties and Responsibilities (Key Result Areas)

-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.

-Be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, 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);

-Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients at the PCN 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.

-Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care.

-Have a leadership role in supporting further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare, and help manage general practice workload.

-Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across PCNs and the wider health and social care system.

-Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties), liaison with community pharmacists and anticoagulation; and

-Be part of a professional clinical network and have access to appropriate clinical supervision.

-High risk drug monitoring and get involved in audits, set by ICB/NHSE or towards borough wide aims and targets. Run searches for local and national medication alerts/shortages.

-Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e., medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement.

-Support the pharmacist team to provide clinical medication review in care homes.

-Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate.

-Do appropriate database searches, in keeping MHRA and NICE alerts/ guidance to support safe patient care.

-Management of medicines at discharge from hospital.

-Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high risk groups of patients.

-Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.

-Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• -Independent prescriber
• -Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
• -Masters degree in pharmacy
• -Minimum of 2 years post qualification experience.
• -An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices.
• -An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiating skills.
• -Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• -Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety of audiences (e.g., patients).
• -Can plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation.
• -Self-Motivation.
• -Adaptable.
• -Ability to travel between the two surgeries.
• -In date CRB/DBS check.
• -Immunisation status.

Desirable

• -Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
• -Specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience.
• -Enhanced Diabetes skills.
• -Safeguarding adult and children level three.
• -Information governance toolkit completion.
• -Basic life support training.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Downing Drive Surgery

Address

Downing Drive Surgery

155 Downing Drive

Leicester

LE5 6LP

Employer's website

https://www.downingdrivesurgery.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)