Job Description
Job summary
The successful candidate is an Independent Prescribing Clinical Pharmacist who is enthusiastic, highly motivated and key to delivering high quality patient care, medicine optimisation, pharmacy queries and support to pharmacy teams.
The PCN Network team already has excellent links with the PCN practices, local hospital, community pharmacies and care homes in the area, so you would be truly part of a larger team working for better patient care.
Main duties of the job
Patient facing Long-term condition clinics - Review the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines.
Patient facing Clinical Medication Review - Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations.
Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments
Medicines support - Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.
Medicine information to practice staff and patients.
Unplanned hospital admissions - Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions
Management of medicines at discharge from hospital.
Repeat prescribing
Risk Stratification
Service development
Information management
Medicines quality improvement - Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed.
Medicines safety - 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.
As part of their employment, the post holder will ideally have completed the CPPE pathway and must be an Independent Prescriber, equipping the prescribing clinical pharmacist to be able to practice and prescribe safely and effectively in a primary care setting.