Clinical Practice Pharmacist

The post holder is an experienced clinical pharmacist ideally with previous experience of working in Primary Care, who acting within their professional boundaries and as part of the wider clinical team, will develop and manage medicine management services within the practice.

• Long-term condition clinics: See patients in multimorbidity clinics and in partnership with primary healthcare colleagues and implement improvements to patients' medicines, including de-prescribing. Run own long-term condition clinics where responsible for prescribing as an independent prescriber for conditions where medicines have a large component.
• Differential / undeferential diagnosis: Manage own case load for patients and diagnosis of people with long term and or acute, common conditions or ailments. Perform medication review of patients with polypharmacy especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities.
• Managing patients: Manage patients as referred as part of the practices total triage and Care Navigation systems and processes. Provide telephone and patient facing medicines support. Offer medicine information to practice staff and patients.
• Contractual targets: Contribute as appropriate, to various medicines related elements in national and local contracts such as QOF, PCN DES and ICB schemes of work.
• Management of medicines: Manage medicines at discharge from hospital. Conduct medication reviews including Care Home and Domiciliary reviews. Provide medicine information to practice staff and patients.
• Unplanned hospital admissions: Identify cohorts of patients most likely to be at risk of an unplanned admission and readmissions from medicines. Work with case managers, multidisciplinary health and social care review teams, hospital colleagues and virtual ward teams to manage medicines-related risk for readmission and patient harm.
• Risk stratification: Contribute to design, development and implementation of computer searches to identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines. Work with patients and the primary care team to minimise risks through medicines optimisation.
• Implementation of guidelines: Implement local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations. Engage in medicines quality improvement and service development.
• Repeat prescribing: Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates.
• Care Quality Commission: Work with the wider clinical and management teams to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved. Undertake risk assessment and management and ensure compliance with medicines legislation.
• Medicines safety: Contribute to identification of national and local policy and guidance that affects patient safety through the use of medicines, including MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and emerging evidence from clinical trials.
• Training and supervision: Contribute to the provision of education and training to the primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation. Provide training to visiting medical, nursing, pharmacy, and other healthcare students where appropriate. Engage with activities required for own clinical supervision.
• Collaborative working: Develop close working relationships with the practice team and wider organisations, understanding their role and contribution to patient services and experience. The post holder will contribute to and participate in local ICB projects and schemes of work, quality improvement and clinical audit.

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