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Long-Term Conditions

• Contribute to improved health outcomes in long term conditions for the practices.

• Support patients to manage their long-term conditions.

• Carry out clinical medication reviews for patients on multiple medications for long term conditions.

• Review if prescribing is appropriate in line with current guidance, cost-effective and safe; identify unmet need, stop unnecessary/ineffective medicines. Implement own prescribing changes as an independent prescriber.

• Review of pathology results for patients under their care.

• Contribute to achievement of QOF targets to improve health outcomes.

• Make appropriate recommendations to the wider clinical team including senior pharmacists, senior clinical practitioners and GPs.

Clinical Medication Reviews

• Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients

• Produce recommendations for senior clinical practitioner, GP etc. for ongoing prescribing and monitoring recommendations.

• To review medications for new patients, to ensure safe, cost-effective prescribing in line with practice/local prescribing policies.

Care Home Medication Reviews

• Undertake clinical medication review with patients and staff within the care home.

• Work with care home staff to improve safety of medication ordering and administration.

Domiciliary Reviews

• Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations.

• Attend and refer patients (if needed) to the multidisciplinary team.

• Work with patients to educate about medication safety, storage and ordering within the home.

Risk Stratification

• Identification of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through computerised searches.

• Review all relevant safety alerts (e.g. MHRA) and ensure any action required is undertaken.

• Conduct medication reviews for patients identified as above.

Unplanned Hospital Admissions

• Review the use of medications most commonly associated with unplanned admissions and re-admission through audit and individual patient reviews.

• Put protocol and policies in place to implement changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups.

Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments

• Managing caseload of patient with common/minor/self-limiting ailments whilst working within a scope of practice and limits of competence.

• Signposting to the community pharmacy and referring ro GPs and other healthcare professionals where appropriate.

Medicines Support and Information for practice staff and patients (patient facing or telephone)

• Answer medical information queries from GPs, Nurses, practice staff, patients and third-party providers.

• Provide education on medicines related topics to the clinical team.

• Provide advice on suitable alternative medications in the event of a medicine being unavailable.

• Provide education for the clinical team on new medicines.

• Provide specialist knowledge and advice on pharmaceutical matters.

• Provide regular education sessions for the clinicians at the practices to discuss audit results and agree an action plan for improving standards within clinical areas.

• To provide specialist knowledge on medication monitoring and ensure a system for implementation is in place.

• To answer queries from administration staff regarding medication requests where appropriate to save GP time.

Management of medicines at discharge from hospital

• To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospital/ intermediate care; identify and rectify unexplained changes, manage these changes without referral to the GP; perform a clinical medication review; produce a post-discharge medicines care plan including dose titration and booking of follow-up test, and work 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).

• Reconcile medication from clinic appointment correspondence, identifying any unexplained changes and rectifying these by communication with the secondary care provider. Ensure patients are fully aware of any changes and that a plan for monitoring/dose titration is in place.

Signposting

• Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate health professional and level of care within an appropriate timeframe.

Repeating Prescribing

• Produce and implement repeat prescribing policy within the surgery.

• To re-authorise medication for future repeat prescribing within scope of competence if an independent prescriber.

• Manage medication review dates and ensure that any clinical monitoring or reviews are actioned.

• To ensure the practice repeat prescribing system is safe, efficient and helps minimise waste.

Service Development

• Review NICE and other evidence-based guidance as it is issued, to evaluate any impact on medicines and prescribing.

• Undertake regular clinical audit to support implementation of clinical guidance across the practice.

• To take part in practice clinical meetings when appropriate.

• Encourage cost effective prescribing within the practice, including adherence to local formulary.

• Build good working relationships with local Medicines Management Team members.

• Improve communication about medication-related issues between the practice and both the patient and other care providers

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 keeping up to date with mandatory training.

• Attend formal clinical supervision sessions for further development, case reviews and dealing with difficult issues.

• Attend annual appraisals

• Participate in the delivery of formal educational programmes.

• Demonstrate an understanding of current educational policies relevant to working areas of practice and keep up to date with relevant clinical practice.

Research and Evaluation

• Critically evaluate and review literature and implement into practice if appropriate.

• Identify where there is a gap in the evidence base to support practice.

• Generate evidence suitable for presentations at practice and local level.

Miscellaneous

• Work as part of the team to seek feedback, continually improve the service and contribute to the business planning.

• Undertake any tasks consistent with the level of the post and the scope of practice, ensuring that work, tasks and results are processed within a timely manner.

• Use effective communication skills to ensure appropriate and detailed information is effectively communicated whether that be a patient, member of the community, member of the multi-disciplinary team or a staff member.

Leadership and Management

• Be the first line manager for the prescribing team.

• Support new starters with induction, training and mentoring.

• Liaise with clinicians, managers and team leads.

• Deal with immediate responses to complaints relating to prescription requests, escalating as appropriate.

• Implement changes as per management instruction.

• Continually assess and evaluate the prescribing systems, recommend changes and improvements to the management team as appropriate.

• Participate in clinical meetings and manage prescribing team meetings.

• Identify team training needs.

• Help the team prioritise workload.

Administration

• Liaise with community pharmacists to ensure efficient and well managed repeat prescribing systems.

• Liaise with other prescribing leads within the PCN and the ICB.

• Liaise with Care Home managers ensuring they have a point of contact if they have any queries.

Policy and Service Development

• Liaise with ICB regarding local prescribing policies.

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

The advertised salary for this clinical pharmacist role at Sussex Primary Care is £23.83 to £29.01 (per hour). Typical clinical pharmacist pay in Brighton varies by experience, sector (NHS versus community), and employer; see the PharmSee UK pharmacy salary guide for benchmarks.

How many pharmacy jobs are currently open in Brighton?

PharmSee is currently tracking 6 active pharmacy vacancies in Brighton across 11 major UK chains and NHS sources. Browse every open Brighton pharmacy role on PharmSee's jobs search.

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