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SalaryCumberland House Surgery Job Description Role:Clinical Pharmacist Responsible to: Practice Manager/ Practice Partners as necessary Base: Cumberland House Surgery Salary: Negotiable Job Summary: The post holder is a Clinical Pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working as part of a team within general practice. This post will have a patient facing role and the post holder should be a qualifiednon-medical prescriber or working towards this. The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patient in the GP Practice.
The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services. The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice. Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility Patient Facing Long-Term Condition Clinics See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma).
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 for medicine improvement. Patient Facing Clinical Medication Review Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for prescribing and monitoring.
Patient Facing Domiciliary Clinical Medication Review Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for on prescribing and monitoring. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences. Telephone Medicines Support Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines. Medicine Information to Practice Staff and Patients Answers relevant 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 Unplanned Hospital Admissions Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and re-admissions through audit and individual patient reviews. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to highrisk patient groups. Management of Medicines at Discharge from Hospital To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into 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 highrisk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes). 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.
Repeat Prescribing Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy. Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review. Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required. Risk Stratification 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. Service Development 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). Information Management Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.
Medicines Quality Improvement Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team. Medicines Safety Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance. Education and Training Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
