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Primary Care Network Clinical Pharmacist

Ealing GP Federation · London, W3 6DL

Salary
£50000.00 to £52000.00 p.a.
Location
London, W3 6DL

Primary Care Network Clinical Pharmacist role at Ealing GP Federation in London, W3 6DL. Salary: £50000.00 to £52000.00 p.a.. Source: NhsJobs. Apply directly with the employer via the link above.

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Job description

Key Duties

and Responsibilities

1. Risk

stratification

Design, develop and implement computer searches to identify cohorts of

patients with chronic disease who need review and medicines optimisation.

2. Plan Clinics

Manage own case load. Do the necessary

checks for QOF and Ealing Standard entering the data correctly on the computer

system. Implement improvements to the patients medication and prescribing

independently where necessary.

3. Manage

patients holistically

Where patients have more than one condition; reviewing co-morbidities

in the same appointment and updating QOF and Ealing Standard as appropriate.

Referring to other members of the Primary Health Care team and Secondary Care

as necessary.

4. Medication

reviews

Undertake structured medication reviews with patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy and

implement own prescribing changes (as an independent prescriber) and order

relevant monitoring tests. Provide a telephone support for patients with

questions, queries and concerns about their medicines and deliver medicines

reconciliation from secondary care recommendations.

5. Pathology

Request and manage the results for the cohort of patients under your

care in a safe and timely way.

6. Medicines

safety and quality improvement

Identify and provide leadership on areas of prescribing requiring

improvement. Conduct own audits and improvement projects and work with

colleagues. Present results and provide leadership on suggested change.

Demonstrate continuous QI activity focused upon prescribing safety as specified

in the QOF guidance. This work for example might include deliver against the

prescribing indicators in the Impact Investment Fund (IIF). Contribute to

national and local research initiatives.

7. Service

development

Develop and manage new services that are built around new medicines or

NICE guidance, where new medicine/recommendations allow the development of a

new care pathway.

8. Care Quality Commission

Provide leadership to the practice manager and GPs to ensure the

practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved as part

of the regulatory role of this position.

9. Meetings

Attend MDT, Network, Practice, ICB and Federation meetings as required.

Being prepared to contribute to Network pharmacy issues as appropriate.

10. Oversight

Network Pharmacy issues

In addition to a clinical specialism this role involves oversight of

prescribing across the two network practices and requires the ability to

prepare and present reports as required.

11. Relationships

To foster and maintain good relationships between, within and outside

the Practices involved in the network.

12. Population

and Public Health

To devise and manage population and public health campaigns to run

within the network if required.

13. Medicine

information to practice staff and patients

Answer all medicine related

enquiries from GPs, other practice staff and patients with queries about

medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up for

patients to monitor the effect of any changes.

14. Flexibility

To understand that this is a new and evolving

role which may change with the needs of the Network. To be willing to change

and the facilitate change in others and the system to promote quality care.

15. Training

Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics

and medicines optimisation. Provide training to visiting medical, nursing and

other healthcare students where appropriate.

16. Implementation

of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations

Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economies RAG

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

subject to shared care (amber drugs). Liaise directly with hospital colleagues

where prescribing needs to be returned to specialists. Assist practices in

setting and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices

computer system.

Suggest and develop computer decision support tools to help remind

prescribers about the agreed formulary choice and local recommendations.

Auditing practices compliance against NICEs technology assessment guidance.

Provide newsletters on important prescribing messages to improve prescribers

knowledge and work with the team to develop and implement other techniques

known to influence implementation of evidence such as audit and feedback.

Job description

Key Duties

and Responsibilities

1. Risk

stratification

Design, develop and implement computer searches to identify cohorts of

patients with chronic disease who need review and medicines optimisation.

2. Plan Clinics

Manage own case load. Do the necessary

checks for QOF and Ealing Standard entering the data correctly on the computer

system. Implement improvements to the patients medication and prescribing

independently where necessary.

3. Manage

patients holistically

Where patients have more than one condition; reviewing co-morbidities

in the same appointment and updating QOF and Ealing Standard as appropriate.

Referring to other members of the Primary Health Care team and Secondary Care

as necessary.

4. Medication

reviews

Undertake structured medication reviews with patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy and

implement own prescribing changes (as an independent prescriber) and order

relevant monitoring tests. Provide a telephone support for patients with

questions, queries and concerns about their medicines and deliver medicines

reconciliation from secondary care recommendations.

5. Pathology

Request and manage the results for the cohort of patients under your

care in a safe and timely way.

6. Medicines

safety and quality improvement

Identify and provide leadership on areas of prescribing requiring

improvement. Conduct own audits and improvement projects and work with

colleagues. Present results and provide leadership on suggested change.

Demonstrate continuous QI activity focused upon prescribing safety as specified

in the QOF guidance. This work for example might include deliver against the

prescribing indicators in the Impact Investment Fund (IIF). Contribute to

national and local research initiatives.

7. Service

development

Develop and manage new services that are built around new medicines or

NICE guidance, where new medicine/recommendations allow the development of a

new care pathway.

8. Care Quality Commission

Provide leadership to the practice manager and GPs to ensure the

practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved as part

of the regulatory role of this position.

9. Meetings

Attend MDT, Network, Practice, ICB and Federation meetings as required.

Being prepared to contribute to Network pharmacy issues as appropriate.

10. Oversight

Network Pharmacy issues

In addition to a clinical specialism this role involves oversight of

prescribing across the two network practices and requires the ability to

prepare and present reports as required.

11. Relationships

To foster and maintain good relationships between, within and outside

the Practices involved in the network.

12. Population

and Public Health

To devise and manage population and public health campaigns to run

within the network if required.

13. Medicine

information to practice staff and patients

Answer all medicine related

enquiries from GPs, other practice staff and patients with queries about

medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Providing follow up for

patients to monitor the effect of any changes.

14. Flexibility

To understand that this is a new and evolving

role which may change with the needs of the Network. To be willing to change

and the facilitate change in others and the system to promote quality care.

15. Training

Description as published by the employer on NhsJobs.

About this clinical pharmacist role in London

This is a clinical pharmacist vacancy at Ealing GP Federation, based in London. The role is listed on NhsJobs and forms part of the wider UK pharmacy jobs market tracked by PharmSee across 11 major chains and NHS sources. If you are researching clinical pharmacist roles in London, review the salary benchmark and similar open vacancies below to inform your application.

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