Job Description
Job summary
The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a primary care setting.
The post holder will work directly with patients to provide structured medication reviews and optimisation for a variety of patients including (but not limited to); those on multiple medications, patients with hypertension, COPD, asthma, frailty and learning disabilities. Through structured medication reviews they will support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote self-care.
The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will help support the repeat prescriptions system, deal with acute prescription request queries, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice for both patients and the healthcare team within the practice.
The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
The post holder will assist with shared working with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage workload.
The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice.
Main duties of the job
Patient facing clinical medication review
Patient facing domiciliary clinical medication reviews
Enhanced Health in Care Homes support
Patient facing medicines support
Telephone medicines support,Medicine information to practice staff and patients
Anticipatory Care
Management of medicines at discharge from hospital and outpatient clinic medicines related recommendations
Repeat prescribing
Clinical areas
Information management
Medicines Quality
Improvement
programmes
Medicines safety
Implementation of local and national
guidelines and formulary
recommendations
Education and Training