Clinical Pharmacist - Independent Prescriber; IP

Clinical Pharmacist - Independent Prescriber (IP)

The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regard to prescription and medicines management at different sites. They will help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on the transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patients in the GP practice (s).

They will deliver an efficient, cost-effective, and high-quality clinical service by providing clinical and professional development to the clinical workforce within K&W Healthcare & member practices.

The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so require motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice.

• Demonstrate a significant reduction in the amount of GP time spent (especially locum GP time) by seeing patients in appointment slots for clinical medication reviews, and responding to urgent medication requests and queries. Complex patients or those with additional needs may require longer appointment slots.
• Review the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs, and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines.
• Managing minor ailments triage
• Contribute to multidisciplinary reviews about medication-related issues
• Reconcile medicinesfollowing hospital discharge
• Targeted medication reviews particularly in high-risk patients
• Medication reviews
• Signpost patients to other services or sources of information in addition to medication information when necessary in order to improve the general health and well-being of patients.
• Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audits and individual patient reviews.
• 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 medicine supply to high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).

K&W Health cares primary objective is to support GP Practices and services across the Brent localities of Kingsbury, Willesden and Wembley.

Ouraim isto develop quality primary care for patients within Brent and strive for continuous improvement in the delivery of primary healthcare services across our GP practices.

K&W Healthcare is a GP-led organisation made up of 27 GP practices serving a registered population of over 220,000 patients. We are committed to improving the care provided to patients, reducing health inequalities and raising the quality and standards of GP practices.

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Clinical reviews/input

• Demonstrate a significant reduction in the amount of GP time spent (especially locum GP time) by seeing patients in appointment slots for clinical medication reviews, and responding to urgent medication requests and queries. Complex patients or those with additional needs may require longer appointment slots.
• Review the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs, and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines. Ensuring they get the best use of their medicines
• Minor ailments triage:
  Managing caseload of patients with common /minor/self-limiting ailments requesting GP appointments and triaging patients appropriately.
• Provide patient-facing clinics for those patients with questions, queries, and concerns about their medication in order to improve medication adherence.
• Minor ailments appointment slots as appropriate
• Contribute to multidisciplinary reviews about medication-related issues
• Reconcile medicinesfollowing hospital discharge
• Review daily pathology results for selected patients on known medicines
• Targeted medication reviews particularly in high-risk patients (frail elderly, poly-pharmacy, renaland hepatic impairment, high-risk medicines, etc.)
• Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the nurses and GPs on prescribing.
• Support practices with the management of patients with drug dependence and alcohol-related disorders.
• Signpost patients to other services or sources of information in addition to medication information when necessary in order to improve the general health and well-being of patients.
• Make appropriate recommendations to the senior clinical pharmacist or GPs for medical improvement.
• Unplanned Admissions and Discharge
• Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions…