Clinical Pharmacist

Enfield Unity Primary Care Network is a large PCN representing over 158,000 patients across 17 GP Practice sites. Our aim is to improve services and outcomes for patients and staff by increasing access to healthcare, supporting multidisciplinary team working for our most unwell patients and by championing Clinical Pharmacists in the General Practice sector.

30 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays

Professional Indemnity cover

Robust clinical supervision and support

Primary Care specific training via CPPE primary care pathway, including Independent prescribing if not already held

Peer support and team network

Support to develop clinical skills as appropriate for the role

This is an exciting opportunity for enthusiastic and forward thinking LOCAL Pharmacists to join our established and growing team in providing meaningful, patient centred support in general practice to deliver:

Clinical Medicine review and long term condition clinics

Prescription requests, queries and prescribing efficiencies

Safe prescribing practice and audits

The post holder will need to demonstrate;

Good IT skills with the ability to obtain and analyse complex technical information

Recognise priorities when problem solving and identify deviations from normal patterns

Work effectively independently and as a team member

Demonstrate accountability for delivering professional expertise and direct service provision.

The successful applicant will be based over one or two of Enfield Unity PCN's 17 sites.

You will have a named Clinical Supervisor, and a named Senior Clinical Pharmacist for support and guidance.

Medicus Health Partners (MHP) is the lead practice for Unity PCN and will be the employing organisation. MHP is a super-partnership made up of 9 of the 17 PCN practices.

The successful applicants will have access to the training, support and governance systems in place at MHP.

The successful applicants will have the unique opportunity to help shape the development of pharmacy in general practice working closely with the PCN clinical directors and senior pharmacist colleagues.

Applications are welcome from those with existing primary care or GP practice experience, or applicants that have a keen interest to develop clinical experience in primary care.

See patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimization is required (e.g. Respiratory, cardiovascular, Diabetes.)

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 optimization). Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement.

Clinical Medication Review

Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring.

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

Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.

Provide patient facing and telephoe for those with questions queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice.

Medicine information to practice staff and patients

Answers relevant medicine related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff, other healthcare teams (e.g. community pharmacy) and patients with queries about medicines.

Suggesting and recommending solutions.

Providing follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes

Unplanned hospital admissions

Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews.

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

Management of medicines at discharge from hospital

To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.

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

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

Implement the practice repeat prescribing policy within each PCN practice where required

Manage the repeat prescribing re-authorization process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review.

Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required.

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