NhsJobs Sidcup

Fulltime Clinical Pharmacist - 6 month fixed term

contract

Key

Responsibilities

Clinical and Patient Client Care

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Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role

to clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for

specific disease areas.

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Manage care for patients with chronic diseases and undertake

clinical medication reviews, with a focus on Hypertension.

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Conduct face-to-face structured medication reviews to:

* optimise patient outcomes

* reduce medication waste

* promote self-care.

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Manage long-term conditions i.e hypertension, mental health

with effective medication planning and monitoring.

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Oversee medication management during care transitions, ensuring

safe prescribing practices.

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Handle repeat prescription authorisations, reauthorisations, and

acute prescription requests.

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Monitor high-risk drugs and conduct clinical audits.

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Independently prescribe medications as part of patient care within

your area of competence.

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Manage own case

load of patients and deliver services where you are proud to put the patient

first with common, minor, self-limiting ailments while working within a scope

of practice and limits of competence.

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Provide follow up

for patients to monitor the effect of any changes from suggestions and

recommendations made, including virtual advice for patients with questions,

queries, and concerns about their medicines and answers relevant

medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other network staff, other healthcare

teams and patients with queries about medicines.

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Using structured

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

from them, reduce waste and promote selfcare.

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Liaises with BHNC

colleagues including BHNC pharmacists on prescribing related matters to ensure

consistency of patient care and benefit.

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Ensure that

patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the

appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time.

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Work in

partnership with hospital colleagues to proactively manage patients at high

risk of medicine related problems before they are discharged to ensure

continuity of care.

- Reconciles medicines following discharge from hospitals,

intermediate care and into care homes.

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On every

occasion, produces accurate, contemporaneous, and complete records of patient

consultation, consistent with legislation, policies, standards, and procedures.

Leadership and Collaboration

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Support the integration of general practice with wider healthcare

teams to:

* improve patient outcomes

* enhance access to healthcare

* manage general practice workload.

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Build and maintain relationships with pharmacy professionals

across Primary Care Networks (PCNs) and the broader health and social care

system.

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Provide expert clinical medicines management advice to healthcare

professionals and patients.

Supervision and Development

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Participate in a professional clinical network and ongoing

clinical supervision

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Seeking guidance if needed with other health care professionals

Financial & Resources

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To be accountable

for adhering to the budget, ensuring best value for money, and identifying

efficiencies as appropriate, ensuring senior managers are aware of the cost

implications of any areas of non-compliance.

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To manage

resources required for key duties under this Job Description, ensuring value

for money at all times and maintain budget management responsibility allocated

to the job holder in line with the scheme of delegation, develop, where

required, cost-benefit analysis for spending and initiatives.

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Actively works

toward developing and maintaining effective working relationships both within

and outside the PCN. To develop and facilitate a good working relationship with

community pharmacists and other local providers of healthcare.

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Liaises with

colleagues including BHNC, STP,ICS Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians, Heads

of Medicines Management,Optimisation to benefit from peer support on

prescribing related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit.

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Foster and

maintain strong links with all services across the PCN and neighbouring

networks.

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Explores the

potential for collaborative working and takes opportunities to initiate and

sustain such key working relationships with stakeholders as needed for the

collective benefit of patients.

Research

& Development

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Contributes

toward the development and embedding of the BHNC and PCN visions, aims and

business objectives.

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Provides advice

to projects and business change initiatives regarding prescribing and makes

appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine

improvement.

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Reviews and

monitors the on-going need for each patients medicine and support them with

their medicines ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e.

medicines optimisation).

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Supports public

health campaigns, providing specialist knowledge on all public health

programmes available to the general public.

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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.

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Undertakes

clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the

senior clinical pharmacists, nurses and GPs on prescribing and monitoring, and

refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences, ensuring medicines

optimisation at every opportunity.

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Reviews the use

of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and

readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews. Putting in place

changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient

groups.

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Be a part of a

professional clinical network, having access to appropriate clinical

supervision. Appropriate clinical supervision includes:

* each clinical pharmacist

must receive a minimum of one supervision session per month by a senior

clinical pharmacist

* the senior clinical

pharmacist must receive a minimum of one supervision session every three months

by a GP clinical supervisor

* each clinical pharmacist

will have access to an assigned GP clinical supervisor for support and

development

* a ratio of one senior

clinical pharmacist to no more than five junior clinical pharmacists, with

appropriate peer support and supervision in place.

Policy and Service

Development

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Contributes

pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services

that have medicinal components.

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Produces and

implements a practice repeat prescribing policy and manages the repeat

prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat

prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates.

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Undertakes

clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the

results and implement changes.

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Implement changes

to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local

and national guidance.

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Monitors practice

prescribing against the local health economys RAG list for medicines and make

recommendations to GPs.

- Assists practices

in seeing and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on each

practices computer system.

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Audits practices

compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance and National Skills

Framework.

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Provide

newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.

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Work with the

general practice teams to ensure the practices are compliant with CQC standards

where medicines are involved.

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Attends local,

regional and national meetings of relevance.

Professional

and Organisational Standards

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Maintains

confidentiality at all times.

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Represents the

organisation positively and professionally.

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Takes

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

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

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