Clinical Pharmacist

Middlewich Road Surgery are seeking to recruit a part-time Clinical Pharmacist to work 3 full days a week.

• Practice list size is 7,358
• Single site based in the market town of Northwich, Cheshire
• IS Web & Docman
• Recent CQC rating 'Good'
• High QOF achievement
• Multi-disciplinary team including 6 GP's, practice nurses, HCA, MSK practitioner and care co-ordinators
• PCN team, including social prescribers, occupational therapists and paramedics.
• Low home visiting rate
• Extended hours sessions optional
• 15 minute appointments; face to face and telephone
• We are a training Practice for GP registrars and medical students.
• 3 days a week
• Training and teaching opportunities
• Flexible session start and finish times

• 3 full days a week
• training and teaching opportunities
• Flexible session start time
• 15 minute appointments

About us

The practice encourages staff cohesion and support to ensure it is an enjoyable place to work, where all views are welcomed and everyone remains forward thinking in their approach.

To contribute to improve health outcomes in long term conditions as a member of the multidisciplinary primary care team.

To provide specialist knowledge and advice on pharmaceutical matters, including cost-effective prescribing and clinical guidelines for disease treatment, and to also provide evidence-based education and training for colleagues in partnership with the practice.

To practice as in independent prescriber, holding face to face consultations.

To provide advice and support for patients with self-limiting conditions.

To work to improve communication about medication-related issues between the practice and other care providers

To lead on implementation of safe and efficient repeat prescribing systems

To fulfil the requirements of the PCN DES and

To provide structured medication reviews for care home patients and other patients specified in the PCN DES, and cooperation and collaboration with other PCN pharmacists and member to fulfil the DES requirements

This list is not exhaustive and duties may with the requirements of the GP practice.

Main task/overview of responsibilities:

Contribute to improved health outcomes in long term conditions

Long term condition clinics

Practice as an independent non-medical prescriber, holdingclinics for long term conditions within scope of competence.

Aim to review multiple long term conditions at same clinicvisit to provide holistic care and improve patient experience.

Support patients to manage their long term conditions.

Carry out face to face clinical medication reviews for patients on multiple medications for long term conditions.

Review if prescribing is appropriate in line with currentguidance, cost-effective and safe; identify unmet need, stopunnecessary/ineffective medicines.

Implement own prescribing changes as an independent prescriber.

Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF)

Contribute to achievement of QOF targets to improve health outcomes

Identify patients at high risk of chronic disease and provide advice/treatment to reduce risk

Domiciliary visits

Identify and visit housebound patients who would benefit from a clinical medication review or a review of their LTC by a clinicalpharmacist.

Provide specialist knowledge and advice on pharmaceuticalmatters

Answer medical information queries from GPs, Nurses,practice staff and patients.

Education

Provide education on medicines related topics for GPs,Nurses, medical students, registrars.

Evidence-based prescribing/ Clinical guidance

Review NICE and other evidence-based guidance as it isissued, to evaluate any impact on medicines and prescribing.

Undertake regular clinical audit to support implementation of clinical guidance across the practice.

Provide regular education sessions for the clinicians atthe practice to discuss audit results and agree an action plan for improving standards within clinical areas.

Provide advice on suitable alternative medications in theevent of a medicine being unavailable.

Encourage cost effective prescribing within the practice,including adherence to local formulary.

Monitor the practices performance on coordinate treatment

Build good working relationships with local Medicines Management Team members

Provide education for the clinical team on new medicines

Drug safety

Review all safety alerts (e.g. MHRA) and ensure any actionrequired is undertaken

Unplanned Emergency Admissions

Work with the practice team to help reduce medicinesrelated emergency admissions by running regular searches to identify patient sat risk of harm from their medicines.

Review these patients to reduce the risk of harm.

To provide advice and support for patients withself-limiting conditions

Provide patients with advice on treating self-limiting conditions through face to face/ telephone consultations and patient information leaflets/website.

Conditions may include UTIs, hayfever, emergency contraception,conjunctivitis.

Improve communication about medication-related issuesbetween the practice and both the patient and other care providers

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