NhsJobs CHESTERFIELD

1.

Patient-facing

/ Remote Medicines Support

Deliver

patient-facing medication review clinics, stratifying need across the full

spectrum of review types from technical, medicines adherence reviews (including

polypharmacy reviews) through to focal long-term condition reviews (see section

3) and holistic SMRs. Provide accessible support for patients with questions, queries,

and concerns about their medicines.

2.

Medicines-Related Clinical Support for Care Homes

Deliver

clinical medication reviews in collaboration with patients, care home staff,

and the Ageing Well team, producing clear and evidencebased recommendations

for the multidisciplinary team to support medicines optimisation, prescribing,

and monitoring. Work collaboratively with care home staff and the Ageing Well

team to optimise medicines management and promote safe, effective, and appropriate

use of medicines, including updating medication at transfer of care and

investigating and responding to requests for medication not on, or as on,

repeat. This workstream is coordinated by the PCN's

Pharmacy Hub for Assessment Services (PHASe), integrated within The Ageing Well

Team, but practice-based pharmacists will need to liaise with the hub,

communicating effectively, to ensure an efficienct and seamless care delivery

service.

3.

Long-Term Condition Clinics

Deliver reviews to patients with

single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g., respiratory,

cardiovascular-reno-metabolic). Review the on-going need for each medicine,

monitoring needs and support patients in getting the best use of their

medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to

Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement. Contribute to QOF

achievement and IIF targets related to long-term condition management.

4.

Patient facing Domiciliary Medication Reviews

Deliver

medication reviews to patients in care home or domiciliary settings, working

within the PCN's Pharmacy Hub for Assessment Services (PHASe), integrated

within The Ageing Well Team. For care home patients, medicines reconciliation

and medication review is coordinated through the centralised pharmacy hub. The

post holder will work within this hub structure, contributing to and drawing on

hub-led clinical oversight, supervision, and workflow support, and producing

recommendations for the multidisciplinary team on prescribing, deprescribing,

and monitoring. In some practices, medication reviews for care home patients

may be delivered outside of the central hub, and some reviews for care home or

housebound patients may require home visits.

5. Risk

stratification

Identify cohorts of patients at

increased risk of harm from medicines using agreed, preprepared practice clinical system searches, including

prescribing and clinical decision support software such as Eclipse Live Radar

500 searches. Risks may be patientrelated, medicinerelated, or a combination

of both.

Where

appropriate, pharmacy technicians will be accountable for reviewing and acting

on the outcomes of these searches within their scope of competence, in

accordance with agreed protocols. Clinical pharmacists will provide supervision

and support where the management of highrisk patients falls outside the

pharmacy technicians competence, and will assume responsibility during periods

of leave or in exceptional circumstances.

6. Unplanned

hospital admissions

Review the use of medicines most commonly

associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit

and individual patient reviews. Implement

changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk

patient groups.

7. Medicines

Reconciliation

Reconcile medicines following

communications from other health settings (e.g., hospital discharges, clinical

letters from secondary care, private healthcare providers etc) including

identifying, resolving and appropriately escalating unexplained changes to

medicines when required. Work collaboratively with patients, carers and the

wider MDT to ensure timely access to medicines and continuity of care including

those requiring medicines compliance aids and care home residents.

Provide mentorship, supervision,

and appropriate delegation of medicines reconciliation activities to pharmacy

technicians and junior pharmacists, including foundation pharmacists, in line

with their competence and agreed governance arrangements.

8. Medicine

Information & Advisory Support

Respond

to relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other network staff, other

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

medicines acting as a visible and accessible medicines expert

within the PCN.

Suggest and recommend evidence-based solutions.

Provide appropriate follow-up where changes are made.

9. Signposting

Ensure that patients are referred

to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care

within an appropriate time period e.g., pathology results, common/minor

ailments, acute conditions, long-term condition reviews etc. Collaborate with and refer to relevant

non-clinicians e.g. social prescribing link workers to connect patients with

non-clinical community support where wider determinants of health are

contributing to medicines non-adherence or health inequalities.

10. Repeat

prescribing

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. Support the practice to reduce

prescribing errors and promote safe, efficient repeat prescribing workflows.

11. Service

development

Contribute pharmaceutical expertise to the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal

components (e.g., advice on treatment pathways and patient information

leaflets).

12. Information

management

Analyse, interpret and present medicines data

to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.

13. Medicines

quality improvement

Undertake clinical audits of

prescribing in areas directed by the GPs and the PCN team, feedback the results

and implement changes in conjunction with the relevant practice team.

14. Medicines

safety

Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts,

product withdrawal and other local and national guidance. Contribute to the practice's and PCNs patient safety agenda by

participating in significant event analysis (SEA), reporting incidents as

appropriate, supporting learning from near-misses and medicines errors. Work

with the practice team and PCN to embed a culture of medicines safety.

15. Implementation

of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations

Monitor practice prescribing

against the local health economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for

medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject

to shared care (amber drugs).

16. Education,

Mentoring and Clinical Supervision

Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on

therapeutics and medicines optimisation. Mentor, supervise and delegate, as

appropriate, clinical workflow to pharmacy technicians and more junior

pharmacists (including foundation pharmacists), to optimise skill-mix and aid

team development.

17. Care

Quality Commission

Work with the general practice teams to ensure

the practices are compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

18. Public

health

Support public health campaigns and provide specialist knowledge on all

public health programs available to the general public.

19. Collaborative

working arrangements

As part of an integrated pharmacy

team, foster and maintain collaborative working relationships with practice

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

The advertised salary for this clinical pharmacist role at Arc Primary Care is £48035.66 to £53390.00 p.a.. Typical clinical pharmacist pay in CHESTERFIELD varies by experience, sector (NHS versus community), and employer; see the PharmSee UK pharmacy salary guide for benchmarks.

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