The Knares Medical Practice is looking to welcome a qualified and experienced clinical pharmacist into our busy practice, to play a full and active role within our multi-disciplinary team. The role is offered on a part-time basis, for 25 hours per week.
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;
- Supporting practice dispensary;
- 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 spirometry, child immunisation, travel vaccination, diabetic foot checks and NHS health checks, as well as other tasks, as required, on completion of appropriate training;
- 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.