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Knowledge, Skills and Experience

a) Recognises priorities when problem-solving and

identifies deviations from normal pattern and is able to refer to senior

pharmacist or other clinical staff when appropriate

b) Able to follow legal, ethical, professional and

organisational policies/procedures and codes of conduct

c) Involves patients in decisions about prescribed

medicines and supporting adherence as per NICE guidelines.

Leadership

a) Demonstrate understanding of the pharmacy role

in governance and is able to implement this appropriately within the workplace.

b) Demonstrate understanding of, and contributes

to, the workplace vision

c) Engages with Patient Participation Groups (PPGs)

and involves PPGs in development of the role and practices

d) Demonstrates ability to improve quality within

limitations of service

e) Reviews yearly progress and develop clear plans

to achieve results within priorities set by others.

f) Demonstrate ability to motivate self to achieve

goals

g) Promotes diversity and equality in people

management techniques and leads by example.

h) To deputise for senior pharmacists during periods of absence

Management

a) Demonstrate understanding of the implications of

national priorities for the team and/or service

b) Demonstrate understanding of the process for

effective resource utilisation

c)Demonstrate understanding of, and conforms to,

relevant standards of practice

d) Demonstrates ability to identify and resolve

risk management issues according to policy/protocol

e) Follows professional and organisational

policies/procedures relating to performance management

f) Demonstrate ability to extend boundaries of

service delivery within the team

g) To

follow and conform to relevant standards of care and demonstrate professional

accountability

Research and Evaluation

a) Demonstrates ability to critically evaluate and

review literature

b) Demonstrates ability to identify where there is

a gap in the evidence base to support practice

c) Demonstrates ability to generate evidence

suitable for presentations at practice and local level

d) Demonstrates ability to apply research evidence

base into working place

e) Demonstrates understanding of principles of

research governance.

Education, Training and Development

a) Understands and demonstrates the characteristics

of a role model to members in the team and/or service

b) Demonstrates understanding of the mentorship

process

c) Demonstrates ability to conduct teaching and

assessment effectively according to a learning plan with supervision from more

experience colleague

d) Demonstrates self-development through continuous

professional development activity in line with the General Pharmaceutical

Council, working alongside senior clinical pharmacist to identifying areas to

develop

e) Participates in the delivery of formal education

programmes as appropriate

f) Demonstrates an understanding of current

educational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keeps up to date

with relevant clinical practice.

g) Ensures appropriate clinical supervision is in

place to support development

h) Enrolled

into review and appraisal systems within the practice

The wide scope of this role is not an expectation of where

the post holder will start but where they aim to be within two years of coming

into the role Key aspects of the role include:

Patients Facing Long Term

Condition Clinics

See

(where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where

medicine optimisation is required (e.g. cardiovascular disease, diabetes,

asthma)

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). Make appropriate recommendations to

Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement.

Patient

FacingStructured

ClinicalMedication

Review

Undertake clinical

structured medication reviews with patients, in line with the PCN contract

specifications and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist,

nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.

Patient

Facing CareHome

MedicationReviews

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.

Patient

FacingDomiciliary

ClinicalMedication

Review

Undertake

clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the

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

Attend and refer patients

to multidisciplinary case conferences.

Management

ofCommon/Minor/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

to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals

where appropriate

Patients

FacingMedicines

Support

Provide patient facing

clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines

in the practice

Telephone

Medicines Support

Provide a telephone help

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

Medicine

Information toPractice

Staff andPatients

Answers relevant

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

teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines.

Suggesting and

recommending solutions.

Providing follow up for

patients to monitor the effect of any changes

Unplanned

HospitalAdmissions

Review the use of

medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and

readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews.

Put in place changes to

reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups.

Management

ofMedicines

at Discharge from Hospital

To

reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and

into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and

working 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).

Signposting

Ensure that patients are

referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level

of care within an appropriate period of time e.g. pathology results,

common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc.

Repeat

Prescribing

Produce 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 and

flagging up those needing a review.

Ensure patients have

appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.

Risk

Stratification

Identification of cohorts

of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through preprepared practice

computer searches.

This might include risks

that are patient related, medicine related, or both

Contribute pharmaceutical

advice for the development and implementation of new services that have

medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient

information leaflets).

Service

Development

Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight

issues and risks to support decision- making.

Information

Management

Undertake clinical audits

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

The advertised salary for this clinical pharmacist role at Quay Health Solutions CIC is £49387.00 to £60417.00 p.a.. Typical clinical pharmacist pay in London varies by experience, sector (NHS versus community), and employer; see the PharmSee UK pharmacy salary guide for benchmarks.

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