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.
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