NhsJobs Frinton-on-sea

The main responsibilities of the role include:

• Clinically assessing and treating patients, using expert knowledge of medicines, for specific disease areas;

• Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines and medicine information (e.g. side-effects, dosage);

• Providing pharmaceutical medication review and health education advice to patients, by face-to-face, telephone or notes-based review, as agreed with the practice;

• Providing leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement;

• Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation and adult immunisation programmes;

• Processing specialist treatment letters;

• Processing hospital medication discharge letters;

• Acting as a key contact, for all medication related queries;

• Supporting improvements in clinical care, through practice-based audits and implementing change;

• Running clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics;

• Conducting care-planning, including: mental health, admission avoidance schemes and end-of-life patients.

• Reviewing daily pathology results and act on results.

• Undertaking minor ailments triage and directing patients, based on clinical need;

• Capturing relevant patient health information at all consultations including contributing to the quality outcomes framework;

• Monitoring patients with complex, long-term conditions such as hypertension, diabetes and COPD, ensuring that medication is optimised, titrated, monitored and complied with;

• Providing clinical advice and expertise on medication;

• Establishing ongoing professional relationships with individual patients;

• Liaising with other providers, such as secondary care, community pharmacy and care or nursing homes, as necessary, to ensure the safe transfer of care;

• Delivering on and/or overseeing relevant aspects of the PCN Directed Enhanced Service (DES).

• Taking a central role in the clinical aspects of shared-care protocols, clinical research with medicines and liaison with specialist pharmacists;

• Being part of a professional clinical network and having access to appropriate clinical supervision;

• Supporting the PCN clinical director as necessary;

• Managing the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process, by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates;

• Reviewing prescribing against local and national targets, and engaging with the wider prescribing team to rectify any issues;

• Carrying out structured medicines-optimisation reviews in care homes;

• Contributing to the reduction of medicine wastage within practices. across the PCN.

Job description

The main responsibilities of the role include:

• Clinically assessing and treating patients, using expert knowledge of medicines, for specific disease areas;

• Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines and medicine information (e.g. side-effects, dosage);

• Providing pharmaceutical medication review and health education advice to patients, by face-to-face, telephone or notes-based review, as agreed with the practice;

• Providing leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement;

• Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation and adult immunisation programmes;

• Processing specialist treatment letters;

• Processing hospital medication discharge letters;

• Acting as a key contact, for all medication related queries;

• Supporting improvements in clinical care, through practice-based audits and implementing change;

• Running clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics;

• Conducting care-planning, including: mental health, admission avoidance schemes and end-of-life patients.

• Reviewing daily pathology results and act on results.

• Undertaking minor ailments triage and directing patients, based on clinical need;

• Capturing relevant patient health information at all consultations including contributing to the quality outcomes framework;

• Monitoring patients with complex, long-term conditions such as hypertension, diabetes and COPD, ensuring that medication is optimised, titrated, monitored and complied with;

• Providing clinical advice and expertise on medication;

• Establishing ongoing professional relationships with individual patients;

• Liaising with other providers, such as secondary care, community pharmacy and care or nursing homes, as necessary, to ensure the safe transfer of care;

• Delivering on and/or overseeing relevant aspects of the PCN Directed Enhanced Service (DES).

• Taking a central role in the clinical aspects of shared-care protocols, clinical research with medicines and liaison with specialist pharmacists;

• Being part of a professional clinical network and having access to appropriate clinical supervision;

• Supporting the PCN clinical director as necessary;

• Managing the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process, by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates;

• Reviewing prescribing against local and national targets, and engaging with the wider prescribing team to rectify any issues;

• Carrying out structured medicines-optimisation reviews in care homes;

• Contributing to the reduction of medicine wastage within practices. across the PCN.

What is the salary for this clinical pharmacist role in Frinton-on-sea?

The advertised salary for this clinical pharmacist role at Primary Care Careers is £55419.00 p.a.. Typical clinical pharmacist pay in Frinton-on-sea varies by experience, sector (NHS versus community), and employer; see the PharmSee UK pharmacy salary guide for benchmarks.

Does Primary Care Careers have other pharmacy roles open in the UK?

Yes — PharmSee currently tracks 11 open pharmacy vacancies from Primary Care Careers across the UK. Browse all Primary Care Careers roles on PharmSee to compare locations and salaries.

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