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Remote/Hybrid Clinical Prescribing Pharmacist

The Station Practice · Hastings, TN34 1BA

Salary: Negotiable (per hour)
Location: Hastings, TN34 1BA

Remote/Hybrid Clinical Prescribing Pharmacist role at The Station Practice in Hastings, TN34 1BA. Salary: Negotiable (per hour). Source: NhsJobs. Apply directly with the employer via the link above.

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Job description

The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management, provide face to face structured medication reviews, manage long term conditions, management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, manage repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation, acute prescription request, while addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients in the GP practice.

The post holder will perform face to face and telephone medication review of patients with polypharmacy especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities, those with mental health conditions. The post holder will provide leadership on quality improvement and clinical audit and well as managing some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework and work closely with high risk drug monitoring.

This role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice.

Main duties of the job

Provide expertise in clinical medicines review and address public health and social needs of

patients in GP practices

Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing through clinical medication

review

Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge and work with patients and community

pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by

supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and

addressing medicines related issues

Interface with community and hospital pharmacy colleagues and develop referral processes

between primary care professionals including the promotion of the repeat dispensing service

Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates

Manage patients and health care professionals medicine queries

Increase quality and safety of prescribing through mechanisms such as audit and PDSA cycles

Manage practice formularies to improve the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of prescribing

Implement drug withdrawals and alerts e.g. MHRA aimed at improving medicines safety

Work with primary care professional and patients to implement NICE and other evidence based guidelines

Run clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics, dependence forming medication reviews.

Contribute to multimorbidity reviews and multidisciplinary reviews

Provide medicines information and training to Practice healthcare professionals and admin staff

Review Pathology results for patients on known medicines and as part of medication review and request outstanding bloods where needed.

Act as a source of medicines information for all of the practice team and patients (e.g. around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives e.g. around out of stocks)

Working within the practice based team to undertake medication reviews particularly in high risk groups such as:

- Frail elderly

Polypharmacy

Renal impairment

Hepatic impairment

Substance misuse

Patients on high risk medicines

STOPP/START identified patients

Revolving door Hospital admissions

Improve prescribing practice through educational support for all prescribers within the practice

Lead on where changes in evidence require changes in prescribing across patient population eg where a drug is withdrawn or indications change

Liaise with colleagues in community pharmacy to align support for referrals, medicines adherence, optimisation and management

Support improvements in clinical care through practice based audit and implementing change

Prescribing advice to prescribers in practice e.g. temporary non availability of drugs

Ensure patient safety when they are transferred between care providers through reconciliation of prescribed medicine

Working closely with the pharmacy team and ICB team to support CQC Arden searches and completion MOIS ICB Project work

Providing support to pharmacy technicians, junior pharmacists and Lead Pharmacist

Any ad hoc duties as needed

You will be delivering SMRs, LTC, high risk medication reviews, Auditing, working closely with the multidisciplinary team to respond to queries, sign prescriptions and problem solving. Your role will impact on the patients medication journey, focusing on de-prescribing, improving quality of care, and reducing medicines related admissions. You will manage long term conditions, support hospital discharge prescribing arrangements, provide specific advice for those on polypharmacy, and support the practices to develop the clinical pharmacist role. You will support the prescription team and ensure pharmacists in the network, and other local networks, collaborate ideas and support each other.

You will be confident, enthusiastic and adaptable to change, with excellent clinical, communication and ICT skills.

You should exhibit good organisational skills and ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of healthcare professionals and other stakeholders including patients, families, and carers.

You will be comfortable working independently and as part of multiple teams as described.