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Purpose of the role

To support the South & East Leeds General Practice Group Practices

with all aspects of medicines optimisation.

The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of

a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines optimisation

across the PCN. This will include structured medication reviews with direct

patient contact and may include contributing to:

Management of long-term conditions

Minor illness

Management of medicines on transfer of care

Reviewing systems for safer prescribing

Contributing to repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation

Actioning acute prescription requests

Addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients

Contributing to achievement of QOF and locally commissioned quality

improvement schemes

Undertaking clinical audit

The specifics of the role in each PCN will be worked up between the

post-holder, the PCN and SEL GP Group.The post holder will be supported by existing practice employed

pharmacists within the PCN (where these exist), a GP clinical mentor and the

head of clinical pharmacy for SEL GP Group. They will also engage with pharmacy

colleagues across Leeds for peer support.

The post holder will be supported to develop their role to

become a non-medical prescriber, if that qualification is not already held,

and will be required to enrol on the General Practice Pharmacist Training

Pathway from CPPE unless

an equivalent qualification is already held or exemption is agreed by CPPE.

Key duties and responsibilities

(Please note this is a list of options, it is not exhaustive, which

options are deployed will be decided by the individual PCN, in conjunction

with the clinical pharmacist and SEL GP Group). It is however mandated by NHS

England that this role is patient-facing in nature.

1.

Patient facing Clinical Medication

Review

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce

recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on

prescribing and monitoring. These

reviews could be cohort based, in care homes, polypharmacy or any other area

required by the PCN, within the pharmacists competence. Home visits may be

required.

2.

Medicines quality improvement

Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the PCN,

feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the relevant

practice team.

Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines

through computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related,

medicine related, or both. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of

these medicines to high-risk patient groups

3.

Medicines safety

Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product

withdrawal and other local and national guidance.

4.

Management of

common/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.

5.

Patient facing medicines support

Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and

concerns about their

medicines in the practice.

6.

Telephone medicines support

Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and

concerns about their

medicines.

7.

Management of medicines at change of

care setting

Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospital or admission to intermediate

care or 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).

8.

Medicine information to practice

staff and patients

Answer relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other network

staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with

queries about medicines. Suggest and recommend solutions. Providing follow up

for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.

9.

Drug monitoring

Ensure robust systems are in place for drug monitoring at each

practice across the PCN, streamlining these where possible. Understand and

apply the traffic light classifications for prescribing in the Leeds Health

Economy.

10.

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.

11.

Repeat prescribing

Ensure each practice in the PCN has a robust repeat prescribing policy,

and streamline these across the PCN where possible. You may be asked to

contribute to the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing

patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching

review dates. Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring in place when

required.

12.

Service development

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).

13. Information

management

Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and

risks to support decision making.

14.

Education and Training

Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on

therapeutics and medicines

optimisation.

15.

Care Quality Commission

Work with the general practice teams to ensure the practices are

compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

16.

Public health

Support public health campaigns. Provide specialist knowledge on all

public health

programmes available to the general public.

17.

Collaborative working arrangements

Work collaboratively with their PCN Clinical Director.

Participate in the PCN MDT.

Liaise with the Leeds GP Confederation Clinical Pharmacy team to

benefit from peer support.

Liaise with CCG Medicines Commissioning colleagues on prescribing

related matters to ensure consistency of patient care and benefit

Engage with the Leeds Practice Pharmacist and Technician Network and

with the other SEL GP-employed pharmacists for peer support.

Foster and maintain strong links with all services across the PCN and

neighbouring networks.

Explores the potential for collaborative working and takes

opportunities to initiate and

sustain such relationships.

Liaises with other stakeholders as needed for the collective benefit

of patients,including but not limited to :

Patients and their representatives

GP, nurses and other practice staff

Social prescribers, first contact

physiotherapists, physicians associates and paramedics.

Community pharmacists and support

staff

Locality / GP prescribing lead

Locality managers

Community nurses and other allied

health professionals

Hospital staff with responsibilities

for prescribing and medicines optimisation

18.

Professional development

Work with your line manager to undertake continual personal and

professional development, taking an active part in reviewing and developing

the role and responsibilities.

Adhere to organisational policies and procedures, including

confidentiality, safeguarding, lone working, information governance, and

health and safety.

Work with your line manager to access regular clinical supervision,

to enable you to deal effectively with the difficult issues that people

present.

Review yearly progress and develop clear plans to achieve results within

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

The advertised salary for this clinical pharmacist role at South and East Leeds GP Group is £45000.00 to £50000.00 p.a.. Typical clinical pharmacist pay in Leeds varies by experience, sector (NHS versus community), and employer; see the PharmSee UK pharmacy salary guide for benchmarks.

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