NhsJobs SOLIHULL

Job Role

Summary

Improve patients health outcomes and efficiency of the practice team

by providing direct, accessible, and timely medicines expertise, including

identifying areas for improvement, and initiating change.

The primary contact within the practice for queries relating to

medicines management, around individual patient care.

Focus on individual patient care by addressing immediate and future

needs to personalise care planning.

Proactively to transfer, from other clinical staff, workload relating

to medicines optimisation to improve patient care and safety.

To demonstrate the effectiveness of the practice and the role through

audit and data analysis.

To follow up patients and investigations, particularly blood tests.

Repeat

prescribing

Focused and structured reviews of repeat prescriptions on an

individual basis to improve quality and safety and maximise effectiveness and

reduce wastage.

Medication review services via clinics in the practice, domiciliary

visit and in residential and nursing homes. These may be face-to-face or

notes-based reviews.

Long-Term

Conditions and Chronic Disease Management

Undertake disease focused medication reviews and telephone advice to

patients with LTCs on specific medicines management issue.

Ensure the care for patients taking high risk drugs e.g. DMARDs,

anticoagulation, are safe and appropriate.

Be familiar with, contribute to the development off and work alongside

practice ICB long-term conditions pathways to ensure consistency and efficiency

of systems.

Provide health promotion where appropriate, including flu

vaccinations.

Patient facing long term condition clinics

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 (i.e. medicines optimisation).

Patient facing and telephone clinical medication review

Undertake

clinical medication reviews with patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy and implement

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

monitoring tests face to face or over the telephone.

Vulnerable and Housebound

patients

Manage vulnerable housebound patients at

risk of hospital admission and harm from poor use of medicines.

Identifying key areas of need for

vulnerable patients and formulating care plans

Management

of common, minor and 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 and

educating patients in the use of non-GP services, such as Pharmacy First and

referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate.

Patient facing

and telephone medicines support

Provide support

and advice to patients with medication related questions, queries, or concerns.

Medicine

information to healthcare professionals and other members of MDT

Answer all

medication-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, and other

healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy, care homes etc.)

Suggest and

recommend solutions

Medicines

Reconciliation (hospital discharges and clinic outpatient letters)

To reconcile medicines following discharge from

hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes outpatient clinic letters,

including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes manage these changes

without referral to a GP.

Perform a clinical medication review, produce a post

discharge medicines care plan including dose titration and booking of follow

up tests and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure

patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

When reconciling discharge letters or outpatient clinic

letters ensure

prescribing is in concordance with national and local policies and to ensure

optimisation of treatment and reduce inappropriate or wasteful prescribing.

Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of

medicines supply to high- risk groups of

patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).

Work in partnership with hospital colleagues (e.g. care

of the elderly doctors and clinical pharmacists) to proactively manage

patients at high risk of medicine related problems before they are discharged

to ensure continuity of care.

Ensure patients are informed and aware of any changes to their medication.

Practice

Formulary

Manage practice formularies and IT systems to ensure appropriate

selection of medication is easy and maximise by prescribers in the practice.

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.

Safety, Risk

and Governance

Ensure appropriate governance is in place regarding medicines,

including leading on the response to any drug safety alerts or changes in

clinical guidance.

Assist with the development of relevant medicines management guidance

and/or policies.

Meet regularly with the practice prescribing lead to discuss

medication issues.

To advise the primary healthcare team on the safe and secure handling

of controlled drugs and other medicines, ensuring compliance with medicines

legislation.

Identify and flag up risks with regard to management of medicines

including clinical and financial risks.

To offer advice and guidance on adverse significant events that

involve medication to ensure lessons are learned and appropriate changes made

to prevent re-occurrence.

To offer advice and guidance on patient complaints that relate to

medication/prescribing.

To update and maintain accurate patient medication records on the

patients clinical computer systems, including advice given and action taken

in pharmacist clinics/reviews.

Audit and

Monitoring

To plan and undertake clinical/prescribing audits to identify areas

where improvement is needed, development action plans and implement

appropriate changes.

To provide regular support and feedback on prescribing action plans.

Report regularly to the GP partners on the practice prescribing

figures with benchmarking against other local and national data.

Analyse practice complex prescribing data to inform GPs and

non-medical prescribers on their collective and individual performance.

Lead on the identification, implementation and monitoring of medicines

management targets and initiatives including QOF, QIPP and ICB prescribing

target.

Support the implementation of actions resulting from audit findings

when necessary.

To agree all auditing and monitoring priorities in discussion with the

practice.

Relationships

To provide training in medicines related issues to other members of

the practice as appropriate.

To consider the skills of the reception team and develop plans for

training as necessary to ensure safe and efficient prescribing processes.

To assist with Clinical Supervision of trainee Pharmacy technician,

Pharmacy technicians, and Junior Clinical Pharmacist.

To support and develop training pathway for pre-registration

pharmacist.

Medicines

Information and Awareness

Analyse and critically appraise complex information to prepare concise

evidence-based summaries/advice to clinicians and nonclinical staff and

patients.

Prepare evidence-based resources and information to support the health

professionals in the implementation of rational cost-effective prescribing.

Present at patient group meetings or other appropriate events to give

advice on the appropriate use of medicines.

Produce patient information leaflets and posters, and run medicine is

aware of his projects throughout the year.

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

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

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