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Job Summary

The post holder is an experienced pharmacist who acts within

their professional boundaries as an autonomous clinician and senior member of

the pharmacy team at The Argyle Surgery. The role combines advanced clinical

practice, medicines optimisation, independent prescribing, quality improvement

and service development. The post holder will work closely with GPs, Advanced

Nurse Practitioners and the wider multidisciplinary team to improve patient

outcomes and deliver safe, effective and patient-centred care.

As a senior member of the pharmacy team, the post holder

will support the development of the Clinical Pharmacist, Prescription

Technician and Foundation Trainee Pharmacists. The successful candidate will be

supported by an experienced Chief Pharmacist as well as the Clinical Lead and will

contribute to the continued development of pharmacy services within the

practice.

Patient

facing long term condition clinics

Independently

manage patients with long-term conditions, undertake reviews, optimise

medicines and prescribe within scope of competence.

Structured

Medication Reviews

Undertake

structured medication reviews for patients with polypharmacy and complex

needs.

Management

of common/minor/self- limiting ailments

Managing caseload for patients with

common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working within a scope of practice

and limits of competence.

Signposting

to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals

where appropriate

Differential/

Undifferential diagnosis

Manage own caseload for patients and

diagnosis people with long term and/or acute/common conditions/ailments while

remaining within scope of practice and limits of competence.

Referring

to GP and/or other healthcare professionals where appropriate

Patient

facing medicines support

Provide

face-to-face and remote medicines advice clinics.

Medicine

information to practice staff and patients

Answers

all medicinerelated enquiries

from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community

pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines.

Suggesting and

recommending solutions.

Providing

follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.

Unplanned

hospital admissions

Implement

practice searches to identify cohorts of patients most likely to be at risk

of an unplanned admission and readmissions from medicines.

Work

with case managers, multidisciplinary (health and social care) review teams,

hospital colleagues and virtual ward teams to manage medicines-related

risk for readmission and patient harm.

Put

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

patient groups.

Management

of medicines at discharge from hospital

To

reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and

into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes.

Manage these changes without referral to a GP

Perform

a clinical medication review, produce a post discharge medicines care

plan

including dose titration and booking of follow up tests and working with

patients

and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines

they

need post discharge and working with patients and community pharmacists

to

ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

Manage

systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-

risk

groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care

homes).

Work

in partnership with hospital colleagues (e.g. care of the elderly doctors and

clinical

pharmacists) to proactively manage patients at high risk of medicine

related

problems before they are discharged to ensure continuity of care. Train more

junior pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and trainees on high quality

medicines reconciliation.

Telephone

triage

Ensure

that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the

appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time e.g. pathology

test results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition

reviews etc.

Repeat

prescribing

Engage

with practice repeat prescribing policy use and improvement. Manage the

repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for

repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates;, and

ensure patients are booked in for necessary monitoring tests and reviews

where required.

Risk

stratification

Design,

development and implementation of computer searches to identify cohorts of

patients at high risk of harm from medicines.

Responsibility

for management of risk stratification tools on behalf of the practice.

Working

with patients and the primary care team to minimise risks through medicines

optimisation.

Service

development

Develop

and manage new services that are built around new medicines or NICE guidance,

where a new medicine/recommendations allow the development of a new care

pathway.

Antibiotic

Stewardship

Promotion of

evidence-based practice and interventions to encourage adherence with

prevailing antimicrobial prescribing policy.

Work closely with organisation, ICB & PCN

leads to identify areas where are reduction in inappropriate prescribing of

antimicrobials is high priority.

Information

management

Analyse,

interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support

decision-making.

Medicines

Quality Improvement Programmes

Identify and

provide leadership on areas of prescribing and medicines improvements.

Conduct

clinical audits and improve projects or work with colleagues such as GP

registrars, practice managers etc.

Undertake QI

& audits of prescribing in areas directed by the Partners or Chief

Pharmacist, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with

the practice team.

Present results

and provide leadership on suggested changes. Contribute to national and local

research initiatives.

Medicines

safety

Identify

national and local policy and guidance that affects patient safety through

the use of medicines, including MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and emerging

evidence form clinical trials. Encourage reporting of medicines safety issues

and clinical interventions in line with NRLS and local reporting mechanisms.

Manage the

process of implementing changes to medicines and guidance for practitioners.

Care Quality

Commission

Provide

leadership to the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant

with CQC standards where medicines are involved.

Undertake risk

assessment and management and ensure compliance with medicines legislation.

Implementation

of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations

Monitor

practice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list for

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

subject to shared care (amber drugs).

Liaise directly

with hospital colleagues where prescribing needs to be returned to

specialists. Assist practices in setting and maintaining a practice formulary

that is hosted on the practices computer system.

Suggest and

develop computer decision support tools to help remind prescribers about the

agreed formulary choice and local recommendations.

Auditing

practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance. Provide

newsletters on important prescribing messages to improve prescribers

knowledge and work with the team to develop and implement other techniques

known to influence implementation of evidence such as audit and feedback.

Education

and Training

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

The advertised salary for this clinical pharmacist role at Argyle Surgery is £54500.00 to £59500.00 p.a.. 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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