PCN Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility

Undertake SMRs in patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required. Using tools available to identify and prioritise patients according to clinical risk and contract requirements.

Review the ongoing 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 clinicians or action recommendation for medicine improvement as appropriate.

Involves patients in decisions about prescribed medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidelines.

Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines.

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

Answers medicine related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.

Review the use of medicines most associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups.

Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both.

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

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

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

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

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

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

To support public health campaigns. To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the public.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters/Degree in pharmacy (MPharm)
• Completion of CPPE PCPEP (or equivalent) pathway, or willingness to undertake this.
• Professional Registration
• Mandatory registration with General Pharmaceutical Council

Desirable

• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• A member of or working towards Faculty membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Experience

Essential

• An appreciation of the nature of GPs and General Practice
• An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
• 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)
• Good IT skills
• Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
• Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and can refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate
• Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
• Produce timely and informative reports
• Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
• Work effectively independently and as a team member
• Desirable
• Specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
• Independent prescriber
• Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
• Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience

Desirable

• Specialist knowledge acquired through post-graduate diploma level or equivalent training/experience
• In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based healthcare
• Independent prescriber
• Is able to plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general medicine optimisation issues in core areas for long term conditions
• Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience

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

Weston Favell Primary Care Centre - Favell Plus GP Surgery

Address

Weston Favell Health Centre

Weston Favell Centre

Northampton

NN3 8DW

Employer's website

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