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Employed by

Newcastle South Primary Care Network, the postholder will work as part of a multidisciplinary

team of Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Care Coordinators, Social

Prescribers, Health and Wellbeing Coach, Dietician, Mental Health

Practitioners, and First Contact Physiotherapist.

The PCN is made

up of five practices with a patient population of over 43,000 patients.

Scope and

Purpose of Job Description

The following

Job Description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work

and is not intended to serve as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities,

duties and skills required. Duties may

vary from time to time dependent upon factors such as workload, staffing

levels, new legislation, and changes in technology or policy, in this event

appropriate training will be provided.

Job Purpose

The purpose of

the role is to lead improvements to maximise safe, cost-effective best practice

in prescribing to improve the quality of patient care. The post holder will help patients to get the

nest from their medicines by switching medications to agreed and approved

protocols, improving repeat prescribing processes in General Practice,

including promotion of repeat dispensing and online ordering, minimising

clinical risk and aiming to reduce wasted medicines.

The postholder

will practice as an independent prescriber, working with and alongside the

general practice team, holding face to face consultations including for long

term conditions within scope of competence.

In addition,

the post holder will be responsible for encouraging the development of better

understanding of the principles of medicines optimisation throughout the

practice teams and promoting good practice in line with therapeutic

developments. This will involve

assisting the PCN in achieving national requirements and utilisation of medicines

optimisation initiatives.

Job Responsibilities

1.

Clinical

1.1 Letter from Secondary Care

Review letters

from secondary care that recommend a change in medication.

Update the patients list of repeat medications.

If appropriate, communicate with the patient (or

the person responsible with their care) and their nominated pharmacist.

If necessary, issue a prescription.

1.2 Prescription Queries

Resolve queries

from the prescribing team.

Request for medication not on the patients

repeat list.

Request for medication that is not available.

The patient appears to be over or underusing

medication.

1.3 Medication Reviews

Review the

records of patients whose repeat medication has reached the review date.

Check that biological and laboratory

measurements are up to date and within target.

Minimise polypharmacy.

Optimise prescription duration.

Check that doses are appropriate to age, renal

and hepatic function.

Consider patient capacity and concordance.

Consider the possibility of prescription drug

addiction.

If necessary, advise patient of need for

consultation with nurse or doctor.

Issue a prescription.

1.4 MHRA Alerts

Monitor

the MHRA and respond to alerts as necessary.

Run a computer search on the drug involved.

Arrange appropriate information to go the

patients involved and update their records.

Repeat the search after a suitable time interval.

1.5 Repeat Prescribing

Ensure

the effective implementation of repeat dispensing by:

Identifying patients suitable for repeat

dispensing.

Work closely with prescribers and community

pharmacies.

Issue medication for future repeat prescribing

within scope of competence as an independent prescriber.

1.6 External Stakeholders

Provide patients on treating self-limiting

conditions through face to face or remote consultation with referral to

community pharmacy services as appropriate.

Build rapport and work with relevant ICB team

members to achieve local incentives with includes antimicrobial stewardship,

cost effective prescribing and medicine safety management in line with local

formulary and guidance.

1.7 Assist with minor illness clinics

2. Management

Initiate and implement ideas to improve acute

and repeat prescribing.

Support the doctors and nurse practitioners in

maintaining good prescribing.

3. Administration

Maintain accurate and clear clinical records.

Be familiar with the current QoF, LES and DES

requirements.

Initiate and participate in practice audit.

Contribute to the smooth running and future

development of the practices.

4. Professional Development

Pursue self-directed learning: identifying

areas of weakness and taking steps to improve.

Complete significant event forms when these

occur.

Maintain continued education by attendance at

appropriate courses and study days as agreed with the PCN Leadership Team.

Maintain registration with the GPHC.

Adhere to the GPHC code of professional conduct.

Maintain a safe and therapeutic environment for

all workers, carers and patients. Ensure that all statutory regulations (eg

Health and Safety, Control of Substances Hazardous to Health) are implemented.

Promote a professional approach at all times by

attire and attitude to patients and staff both in and out of the Practice.

5. Code of Conduct

All staff are required to work in accordance

with the code of conduct for their professional group (e.g. Nursing and

Midwifery Council, Health Professions Council, General Medical Council, NHS

Code of Conduct for Senior Managers).

6. Health, Safety and Welfare

In accordance with the Health & Safety at

Work Act 1974 you have a duty to take reasonable care to avoid injury to

yourself and to others by your work activities.

The post holder will assist in promoting and

maintaining their own and others Health, Safety, Welfare and security as

defined in the Practices Health & Safety Policy and in accordance with The

Health and Safety at Work Act to include:

Using personal security systems within the

workplace according to practice guidelines.

Identifying the risk involved in work activities

and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks.

Making effective use of training to update

knowledge and skills.

Using appropriate infection control procedures,

maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards.

Managing risks and reporting.

You will be issued with an identity badge which

you must wear at all time on site.

You are responsible for the security of any

keys, smartcards, passwords, etc., issued to you.

7. Infection Control

It is the responsibility of all staff, whether

clinical or non-clinical, to familiarise themselves with and adhere to current

policy in relation to the prevention of the spread of infection.

Clinical staff, on entering and leaving

clinical areas and between contacts with patients, must follow the practices

handwashing policy. Staff are required to communicate any infection risks to

the practice manager.

8. Equality and diversity

The post-holder will support the equality,

diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

Acting in a way that recognizes the importance

of people's rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice

procedures and policies, and current legislation.

Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and

beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues.

Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and

of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings

priorities and rights.

9. Clinical Governance and Risk

Management

The PCN believes everyone has a role to play in

improving and contributing to the quality of care provided to our patients. As

an employee of the PCN you are expected to take a proactive role in supporting

the PCN and Practices clinical governance agenda by:

Taking part in activities for improving quality

such as clinical audit.

Identifying and managing risks through incident

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