NhsJobs Taunton

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week, job share will be considered

Salary: Competitive, depending on experience

Location: Warwick House

Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility

Note: Duties and Areas of Responsibility will vary between the practices according to needs. They may include the following examples:

Patient facing Long Term Condition Clinics:

a. See (where

appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine

optimisation is required

b. Review the

on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an

opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get

the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation).

c. Run own

long-term condition clinics where responsible for prescribing as an independent

prescriber.

Patient facing clinical medication review :

a.Undertake

clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations

for/implement changes in prescribing and monitoring.

Patient facing care home medication reviews:

a. Undertake

clinical medication reviews with patients/carers and produce recommendations

/implement changes in prescribing and monitoring.

b. Work with

care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.

Patient facing domiciliary clinical medication review:

a. Undertake

clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for

/implement changes in prescribing and monitoring.

b. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case

Patient facing medicines support:

a. Provide

patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about

their medicines

Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments:

a. Managing

caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments while working

within a scope of practice and limits of competence

b. Signposting

to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals

where appropriate

Telephone medicines support:

a. Provide a

telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about

their medicines.

Medicine information to practice staff and patients:

a. Answers

relevant medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other

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

medicines.

b. Suggesting

and recommending solutions

c. Providing

follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes

Unplanned hospital admissions:

a. Review the

use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions

and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews.

b. Put in place

changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to highrisk patient groups.

Management of medicines at discharge from hospital:

a. To reconcile medicines following

discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including

identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients,

dispensers and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines

they need post discharge.

b. Set up and manage systems to ensure

continuity of medicines supply to highrisk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids

or those in care homes).

Signposting:

a. 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

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

etc.

Repeat prescribing/dispensing:

a. Support 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.

b. Support the development of repeat

dispensing services where appropriate.

c. Ensure patients have appropriate

monitoring tests in place

Risk stratification:

a. Identification

of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared

practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related,

medicine related, or both.

Service development:

a. Contribute

pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services

that have medicinal components (e.g. advice on treatment pathways and patient

information leaflets).

Information management:

a. Analyse,

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

decision making

Medicines quality improvement:

a. Undertake

clinical audits of prescribing to identify areas for improvement independently

or in collaboration with colleagues. Present results & provide leadership

on suggested change.

b. Contribute to

local & national research initiatives

Medicines safety:

a. Implement

changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other

local and national guidance.

Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations:

a. 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).

b. Assist

practices in maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices

computer system.

c. Auditing

practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance.

d. Provide

newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.

Education and training:

a. Provide

education and training to primary healthcare team & visiting students on

therapeutics and medicines optimisation.

Care Quality Commision:

a. Work with the

general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards

where medicines are involved.

Public Health:

a. To support public health campaigns

b. To provide

specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general

public

Job Description Agreement:

This job description is

intended to provide an outline of the key tasks and responsibilities only.

There may be other duties required of the post-holder commensurate with the

position. This description will be open to regular review and may be amended to

take into account development within the Practice. All members of staff should

be prepared to take on additional duties or relinquish existing duties in order

to maintain the efficient running of the Practice.

This job description is

intended as a basic guide to the scope and responsibilities of the post and is

not exhaustive. It will be subject to regular review and amendment as necessary

in consultation with the post holder.

Job description

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week, job share will be considered

Salary: Competitive, depending on experience

Location: Warwick House

Primary Duties and Areas of Responsibility

Note: Duties and Areas of Responsibility will vary between the practices according to needs. They may include the following examples:

Patient facing Long Term Condition Clinics:

a. See (where

appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine

optimisation is required

b. Review the

on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an

opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get

the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation).

c. Run own

long-term condition clinics where responsible for prescribing as an independent

prescriber.

Patient facing clinical medication review :

a.Undertake

clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations

for/implement changes in prescribing and monitoring.

Patient facing care home medication reviews:

a. Undertake

clinical medication reviews with patients/carers and produce recommendations

/implement changes in prescribing and monitoring.

b. Work with

care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.

Patient facing domiciliary clinical medication review:

a. Undertake

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

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