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The post holder is an experienced prescribing pharmacist, who acts

within their professional boundaries, to provide a support network to the wider

pharmacy team

The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in

a patient-facing role. The post holder will take lead responsibility for areas

of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical

medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy,

especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with

multiple co-morbidities.

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

post holder will provide supervision, mentorship and line management to

appointed clinical pharmacy technicians.

The

post holder will provide support and mentorship to newly appointed clinical

pharmacists

Lead

on the prescribing domains of the QOF Framework, PCN DES requirements and

prescribing elements of local commissioned services

Primary Care Focus

1. The post holder will provide primary

support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication

queries and actioning prescriptions. They will help support the repeat

prescriptions 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(s).

2. The post holder will ensure that the

practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise

skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and

help manage workload. 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.

Patient facing clinics

3. Manage clinics and own caseload

within scope of practice for long term disease management e.g. hypertension,

diabetes, asthma. Conduct clinical medication reviews for patients with

complex polypharmacy, especially those with frailty and the elderly, people

in care homes, those with multiple comorbidities and people with learning

disabilities.

4. An outcome of these clinics to see a

change in behaviour of patients with long term conditions such as better self-management

and self-care.

5. Through structured medication

reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from

them, reduce waste and promote self-care, including those within a care home

setting. Ensuring optimal patient care and reduction of unplanned hospital

admissions and inappropriate A&E attendance.

6. Proactively engage with patients

whose care has been transferred back to primary care.

7. As an independent prescriber, be

responsible for adjusting medications and arranging monitoring when needed.

8. Refer patients, attend and

contribute to multidisciplinary case conferences. Identifying key areas of

need for vulnerable patients and formulating care plans.

Management of common/minor/self- limiting

ailments

9. Managing caseload of patients with

common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within scope of practice

and limits of competence.

10. Signposting to community pharmacy

and referring to GPs or other healthcare professional where appropriate.

Medicines information

11. Provide face to face and telephone

clinics for patients to answer queries and concerns they may have regarding

their medication. Signposting where appropriate to the appropriate healthcare

professional in a timely manner.

12. Provide medication information to

the practice staff and other healthcare teams e.g. community pharmacy.

Suggesting solutions where needed and providing follow up with the most

appropriate healthcare professional.

13. To support public health campaigns

and provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to

the general public.

Medicines Optimisation

14. Provide leadership on person-centred

medicines optimisation (such as ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve

antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and

quality improvement, whilst contributing to the quality and outcomes

framework and enhanced services.

15. Provide support to the pharmacy

technicians to ensure medicines reconciliation from clinical letters e.g.

hospital discharges and out-patient clinic letters are completed accurately

and in a timely manner.

16. Report back to ICB/secondary care

pharmacy teams queries around requests for inappropriate shared care

prescribing requests or non-formulary items.

17. Work with PCN pharmacy technicians

to action ICB medicines management incentive schemes.

Repeat Prescribing

18. Ensure patients have appropriate

monitoring tests in place when required as per the repeat prescribing policy.

19. Responsible for reviewing and

amending the repeat prescribing policy and ensuring practice adherence.

20. Ensure there are uniform protocols

and searches for high-risk drug monitoring and safe and effective management

of high risk medication

21. Ensuring an effective and continuous

supply of medications to high-risk patients.

Risk Stratification

22. Responsible for management and Implementing

systems to ensure these patients are reviewed and monitored appropriately.

23. Analyse, interpret and present

prescribing information at practice and population level to support effective

decision making and change in evidence based clinical practice.

24. Staff education and implementing

systems to reduce the risk of medication-related harm.

Service development

25. 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). Where the new service is predominately medicines related to lead

on the development across the PCN.

26. Monitor the effectiveness of the

pharmacy wide team against indicative KPIs and clinical measures aligned to

the medicines optimisation framework.

Medicines Quality Improvement programmes

27. Identify and provide leadership on

areas of prescribing requiring improvement.

28. Undertake clinical audits of

prescribing, feedback the results and provide leadership in implementing

changes in conjunction with the practice team.

Medicines Safety

29. Provide leadership on quality

improvement and clinical audit, as well as managing some aspects of the

Quality and Outcomes Framework.

30. Work with the PCN pharmacy

technicians and practices to identify patients affected by appropriate MHRA

drug alerts, drug withdrawals and other local or national guidance.

31. Take a central role in the clinical

aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison

with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of

inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties), liaison

with community pharmacists and anticoagulation.

Care Quality

Commission and other regulatory

bodies

32. Work with the general practice team

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

involved. Also to meet requirements that other regulators might impose.

Implementation of local and national

guidelines and formulary

recommendations

33. Be a prescriber and work with and

alongside the general practice team.

34. Work to improve Quality and Outcomes

Framework (QOF) either through reviewing clinical coding to improve disease

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

The advertised salary for this clinical pharmacist role at Preston Park Community PCN Limited Company is £53843.00 to £59228.00 p.a.. Typical clinical pharmacist pay in Brighton varies by experience, sector (NHS versus community), and employer; see the PharmSee UK pharmacy salary guide for benchmarks.

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