NhsJobs SOUTHEND-ON-SEA

Key Duties

Management of medicines

after discharge from hospital

To reconcile

medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care

homes, identify and rectify unexplained changes, manage these changes without

referral to the GP, perform a clinical medication review, produce a

post-discharge medicines care plan including dose titration and booking of

follow-up tests. Work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure

patients receive the medicines they need post discharge. 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

Risk stratification

Design, develop and implement

searches to identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines.

Work with patients and the primary care team to minimise risks through

medicines optimisation. Implement local and national guidelines and formulary

recommendations. Monitor practice prescribing against the local health

economys Red/Amber/Green/Grey lists for medicines that should be prescribed by

hospital doctors or subject to shared care. Liaise directly with hospital

colleagues where prescribing needs to be returned to specialists. Suggest and

develop computer decision support tools to help remind prescribers about the

agreed formulary choice and local recommendations. Audit practices compliance

with NICE guidance. Proactively provide practice communications 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.

Unplanned hospital

admissions

Devise and implement practice

searches to identify cohorts of patients most likely to be at risk of an

unplanned admission and readmissions from medicines. Work with

multi-professional colleagues to manage medicines-related risk for readmission

and patient harm. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these

medicines to high-risk patient groups

Repeat prescribing

Review,

update and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy. Manage the repeat

prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat

prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates.

Patient facing medicines

support

Provide a telephone help line

for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines. Hold

clinics for patients requiring face-to-face clinical medication reviews, CMRs i.e. a review of the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring

needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicine taking.

Identify people at risk of hospital admission and harm from poor use of

medicines. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary team meetings.

Care home medication reviews

Manage caseload of care home

residents, if required by the practice. Undertake clinical medication reviews

with patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy. Work with care home staff

to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.

Long term condition clinics

See patients in

multi-morbidity clinics and in partnership with primary healthcare colleagues

and implement improvements to patients medicines, including de-prescribing.

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 e.g. new

oral anticoagulants for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation.

Care Quality Commission

Provide

leadership to the practice manager and GPs to ensure the practice is compliant

with CQC standards where medicines are involved

Cost saving programmes

Make recommendations for,

support and supervise practice prescribing clerks. Make changes to medicines

designed to save on medicine costs where a medicine or product with lower

acquisition cost is now available

Medicine information to

practice staff and patients

Answer all medicine related

enquiries from GPs, practice staff and patients. Provide follow ups for

patients to monitor the effect of any changes

Medicines quality

improvement

Identify and provide leadership

on areas of prescribing requiring improvement. Either conduct own audits and

improvement projects or work with colleagues such as GP registrars. Present

results and provide leadership on suggested change. Contribute to national and

local research initiatives

Training & Shared

Learning

Provide

education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines

optimisation. Provide training to visiting medical students. Facilitate shared

learning across the practices on medication related issues, offering

professional support and leadership.

Job description

Key Duties

Management of medicines

after discharge from hospital

To reconcile

medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care

homes, identify and rectify unexplained changes, manage these changes without

referral to the GP, perform a clinical medication review, produce a

post-discharge medicines care plan including dose titration and booking of

follow-up tests. Work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure

patients receive the medicines they need post discharge. 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

Risk stratification

Design, develop and implement

searches to identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines.

Work with patients and the primary care team to minimise risks through

medicines optimisation. Implement local and national guidelines and formulary

recommendations. Monitor practice prescribing against the local health

economys Red/Amber/Green/Grey lists for medicines that should be prescribed by

hospital doctors or subject to shared care. Liaise directly with hospital

colleagues where prescribing needs to be returned to specialists. Suggest and

develop computer decision support tools to help remind prescribers about the

agreed formulary choice and local recommendations. Audit practices compliance

with NICE guidance. Proactively provide practice communications 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.

Unplanned hospital

admissions

Devise and implement practice

searches to identify cohorts of patients most likely to be at risk of an

unplanned admission and readmissions from medicines. Work with

multi-professional colleagues to manage medicines-related risk for readmission

and patient harm. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these

medicines to high-risk patient groups

Repeat prescribing

Review,

update and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy. Manage the repeat

prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat

prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates.

Patient facing medicines

support

Provide a telephone help line

for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines. Hold

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What is the salary for this clinical pharmacist role in SOUTHEND-ON-SEA?

The advertised salary for this clinical pharmacist role at Southend Coastal Surgeries is Negotiable (per hour). Typical clinical pharmacist pay in SOUTHEND-ON-SEA varies by experience, sector (NHS versus community), and employer; see the PharmSee UK pharmacy salary guide for benchmarks.

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