Clinical Pharmacist WBC Primary Care Network - Hereford City

Job description

Job responsibilities

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

(Please note this is a list of options, it is not exhaustive, which options are deployed will be decided by the individual PCN, in conjunction with the clinical pharmacist and SEL GP Group). It is however mandated by NHS England that this role is patient- facing in nature.

1. Patient facing or remote Clinical Medication Reviews

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and work within your scope of practice as an independent prescriber to implement any necessary changes (or produce recommendations for/refer to other prescribing pharmacists, nurses and/or GPs to implement if outside your scope). These reviews could be cohort based, in care homes, polypharmacy or any other area required by the PCN, within the pharmacists competence. These reviews might be patient facing or remotely.

2. Medicines quality improvement

Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas identified by yourself and agreed by the PCN or as directed by the PCN, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the relevant practice team.

Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through computer searches.

This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups.

3. Medicines safety

Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

4. Leadership and management

You will be expected to contribute to the leadership of medicines-related issues for the PCN and

Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role in governance and implement this appropriately within the workplace.

Demonstrate understanding of, and contribute to, the workplace vision

Demonstrate ability to improve quality within limitations of service

Review progress yearly and develop clear plans to achieve results within priorities set by others.

Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve goals

Demonstrate ability to lead a team and provide support to other clinical pharmacists

Demonstrate understanding of the implications of national priorities for the team and/or service and manage the team through these changes

Demonstrate understanding of the process for effective resource utilisation

Demonstrate understanding of, and conforms to, relevant standards of practice

Demonstrate ability to identify and resolve risk management issues according to policy/protocol

Follow professional and organisational policies/procedures relating to performance management

Demonstrate ability to extend boundaries of service delivery within the team

Lead and mentor a team of differing abilities

5. Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments

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.

6. Patient facing medicines support

Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.

7. Telephone medicines support

Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.

8. Management of medicines at change of care setting

Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospital or admission to intermediate care or 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).

9. Medicine information to practice staff and patients

Answer relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other network staff, other healthcare

teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines. Suggest and recommend solutions. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.

10. Drug monitoring

Ensure robust systems are in place for drug monitoring at each practice across the PCN, streamlining these where possible. Understand and apply the traffic light classifications for prescribing in the Herefordshire Health Economy.

11. Signposting

Ensure 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.

12. Repeat prescribing

Ensure each practice in the PCN has a robust repeat prescribing policy, and streamline these across the PCN where possible. You may be asked to contribute to the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates. Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring in place when required.

13. Service development

Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the implementation and delivery of new services that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).

14. Information management

Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support

decision making.

15. Education and Training

Understand and demonstrate the characteristics of a role model to members in the team and/or service

Demonstrate understanding of the mentorship process

Demonstrate ability to conduct teaching and assessment effectively according to a learning plan with supervision from more experience colleague

Demonstrate self-development through continuous professional development activity

Participate in the delivery of formal education programmes

Demonstrate an understanding of current educational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keeps up to date with relevant clinical practice

16. Care Quality Commission

Work with the general practice teams to ensure the practices are compliant with CQC

standards where medicines are involved.

17. Public health

Support public health campaigns. Provide specialist knowledge on all public health

programmes available to the general public.

18. Working alongside peers in community and secondary care teams: Fostering a culture of collaborative working between sectors, thereby providing patients with seamless care.

19. Special working conditions

The post holder is required to travel independently between work sites and to attend meetings etc hosted by other agencies.

The post-holder will have contact with body fluids, i.e. wound exudates, urine etc while in clinical practice.

The post-holder is likely to need to visit patients in their own home.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Mandatory registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Desirable

• Membership Primary Care Pharmacy Association (PCPA)
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Taurus Healthcare Limited

Address

Taurus Healthcare Ltd

Whitecross Road

Hereford

HR4 0DG

Employer's website

https://www.herefordshiregeneralpractice.co.uk (Opens in a new tab)