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The PCN Clinical Pharmacist will:

work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a

patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert

knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas;

be a prescriber, or completing training to

become a prescriber, and work with and alongside the general practice team;

be responsible for the care management of

patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to

proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly,

people in care homes, those with multiple co-morbidities (in particular

frailty, COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism

(through STOMP Stop Over Medication Programme);

provide specialist expertise in the use of

medicines whilst helping to address both the public health and social care

needs of patients at the PCNs practice(s) and to help in tackling

inequalities;

provide leadership on person-centred medicines

optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve

antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality

improvement, whilst contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and

enhanced services;

through structured medication reviews, support

patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and

promote selfcare;

have a leadership role in supporting further

integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including

community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure

better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload;

develop relationships and work closely with

other pharmacy professionals across PCNs and the wider health and social care

system;

take a central role in the clinical aspects of

shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with

specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate

antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties), liaison with community

pharmacists and anticoagulation.

Key aspects of PCN

pharmacist role

Patient facing role undertaking face to face

medications reviews for:

patients on complex polypharmacy with long term

conditions

housebound patients

specific disease areas identified as a priority area

within the PCN

Review patients with single or multiple medical

problems where medicine optimisation is required.

Review on-going need for each medicine, assess monitoring

requirements and support patients to ensure treatment is safe, appropriate

and optimised for maximum clinical benefit.

Discuss recommendations and outcomes with relevant

members of the PCN team and provide appropriate and timely follow up.

Support patients to optimise medicines by providing additional

written patient information leaflets, and liaise with community pharmacists

about the need for special requirements to aid adherence.

Management of Common/Minor/Self-Limiting Ailments

Support practices in improving patient access for minor

ailments and acute presentations.

Promote the importance of self-care and signpost patients

to community pharmacies in line with national guidance on over the counter

medicines.

Medicines Information to Practice Staff and Patients

Support relevant medicine-related enquiries from the

practice team, PCN team, community pharmacists and patients.

Update practice teams at weekly meetings on current

medicines related information and issues with a view to educating and

improving prescribing within the practice.

Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to practice

staff regularly to highlight prescribing issues.

Communicate

recommended actions relating to medication and medical device safety alerts.

Medicines Reconciliation

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.

Commissioned improvements for QIPP and medicines

optimisation

Support

the practice and the PCN in delivering the outcomes as required in the medicines section of the Clinical

Commissioning Contract

Signposting

Ensure that patients are

referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for specialist referral,

monitoring and/or referred to the social prescriber for further support

services where required.

Repeat Prescribing

Review, implement and support adherence to the

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 patients needing a

review.

Ensure patients on repeat prescriptions have the

required monitoring and assessments undertaken as appropriate to their

condition(s) and medicines prescribed.

Clinical Governance

Communicate, action and support implementation of

MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and other local and national guidelines and

formulary recommendations.

Undertake clinical audits in priority areas

identified by the CCG medicines management team or within the PCN and

feedback results to practices and the PCN and support them in implementing

recommendations.

Support practices and PCNs in identifying and

reporting onto NRLS any incidents relating to medicines. Be involved in

investigating medicines incidents and identifying and implementing any

required system improvements.

Support implementation of shared care protocols in

practice, including processes to improve monitoring of high- risk drugs.

Review the use of medicines most commonly associated

with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and

individual patient reviews.

Identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm

from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches e.g. using

PINCER and other tools.

Work with the general practice team to ensure the

practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

Education and

Training

Contribute to the provision

of education and training on medicines optimisation and specific therapeutic

areas to healthcare professionals within the PCN and to the wider CCG/ICB

geography.

Public Health

To support public health campaigns.

To provide specialist advice on all public health

programmes available to the general public.

General

Undertake any other work supporting medicines

optimisation in GP practices and the PCN commensurate with the banding of the

post and which is agreed between the postholder and the manager

Key Collaborative

Working Relationships

The post-holder will be required to work with a wide range

of stakeholders. It is important that the post holder recognises the roles of

other colleagues to person-centred care, and liaises with other stakeholders as

needed for the collective benefit of patients including:

Patients and Patient Participation Groups (PPGs)

GPs, nurses and other practice staff

Other healthcare professionals including CCG

pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, optometrists, dentists, health and social

care teams, dieticians etc.

Locality / GP prescribing lead and Locality

managers

Community nurses and other allied health

professionals

Integration between general practice community

and hospital pharmacy teams

Ability to work as a member of a team within the

PCN

Collaboration

with network resources to support care management plans and social prescribing

Knowledge, Skills and

Experience Required (please see Person Specification)

Has experience/awareness

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

The advertised salary for this clinical pharmacist role at City & Hackney Integrated Primary Care CIC is Negotiable (per hour). 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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