NhsJobs Walsall

Primary Duties and Areas of

Responsibility

Prescription queries / repeat

prescribing

Produce and implement a

practice repeat prescribing policy and support colleagues by reducing

prescription queries.

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.

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 (ie. medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to

Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement.

Patient facing clinical

medication review

Undertake clinical medication

reviews with patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical

pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.

Patient facing care home

medication reviews

Undertake clinical medication

reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical

pharmacist, nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.

Work with care home staff to

improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.

Patient facing domiciliary

clinical medication review

Undertake clinical medication

reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical

pharmacists, nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring.

Attend and refer patients to

multidisciplinary case conferences.

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.

Patient facing medicines

support

Provide patient facing clinics

for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the

practice

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 all medicinerelated

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 readmissions

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 eg. pathology results,

common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews, etc.

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 (eg. 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

programmes

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.

Implementation of local and

national guidelines and formulary recommendations

Monitor practice prescribing

against the local health economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs

for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or

subject to shared care (amber drugs).

Assist practices in seeing and

maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer

system.

Auditing practices compliance

against NICE technology assessment guidance.

Provide newsletters or

bulletins on important prescribing messages.

Education and Training

Provide education and training

to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.

Provide training to visiting

medical, nursing, pharmacy and other healthcare students where appropriate.

Care Quality Commission

Work with the general practice

team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines

are involved.

Public health

To support public health

campaigns.

To provide specialist knowledge

on all public health programmes available to general public.

Job description

Primary Duties and Areas of

Responsibility

Prescription queries / repeat

prescribing

Produce and implement a

practice repeat prescribing policy and support colleagues by reducing

prescription queries.

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.

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 (ie. medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to

Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement.

Patient facing clinical

medication review

Undertake clinical medication

reviews with patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical

pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.

Patient facing care home

medication reviews

Undertake clinical medication

reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical

pharmacist, nurses or GPs on prescribing and monitoring.

Work with care home staff to

improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.

Patient facing domiciliary

clinical medication review

Undertake clinical medication

reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the senior clinical

pharmacists, nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring.

Attend and refer patients to

multidisciplinary case conferences.

Management of

common/minor/self- limiting ailments

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What is the salary for this clinical pharmacist role in Walsall?

The advertised salary for this clinical pharmacist role at Walsall Primary Care Network is Negotiable (per hour). Typical clinical pharmacist pay in Walsall varies by experience, sector (NHS versus community), and employer; see the PharmSee UK pharmacy salary guide for benchmarks.

How many pharmacy jobs are currently open in Walsall?

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