Primary Care Network (Pcn) Clinical Pharmacist
Bolton Gp Federation
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Job summary
Bolton GP Federation is recruiting a Clinical Pharmacist to support Primary Care Networks (PCNs) across Bolton. You will contribute to prescription and medicines queries and support general practice staff.
Key duties include medicines reconciliation on discharge, chronic disease management, repeat prescribing, and medicines safety reviews, with a focus on integrating community and hospital pharmacy to improve patient outcomes.
Qualifications
- Essential: Pharmacy degree and GPhC registration.
- Minimum 2 years post-qualification experience in pharmacy.
- Experience with EMIS/primary care IT systems.
Responsibilities
- Reconcile medicines after discharge from hospital and ensure continuity of medicines supply.
- Lead medicines optimisation and quality improvement within GP practices.
- Manage repeat prescribing and reauthorisation processes for polypharmacy.
- Provide telephone and face-to-face medicines support, including clinics.
- Collaborate with community and hospital pharmacists to improve patient outcomes.
Skills
Education
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Job description
POST TITLE: Primary Care Network Clinical Pharmacist
LOCATION: Bolton Central PCN
RESPONSIBLE TO: Primary Care Network Manager
HOURS PER WEEK: up to full time 37.5 hours
SALARY: £45,316.71 - £51,858.02
DURATION: 6 month fixed term
Bolton GP Federation is looking to recruit a Clinical Pharmacist on behalf of our Primary Care Networks (PCNs).
You will have a broad portfolio of duties that originate from the requirements of the PCN contracts, including the Directed Enhanced Services (DES) and Impact & Investment Fund (IIF).
PCN Pharmacists provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries.
- help support the repeat prescriptions system
- deal with acute prescription requests
- complete medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patient in the GP practice(s).
- provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
- will also take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within the practice and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.
- ensure that practices integrate with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare, and help manage workload.
- 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 high-risk groups of patients (e.g., those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).
- Identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches. This might include risks that are patient related, medicine related, or both.
- 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 high-risk patient groups.
- Produce and implement a repeat prescribing policy.
- Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review to the GP. Monitor and manage patients with polypharmacy.
- Provide a telephone help line for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.
- Hold clinics for patients requiring face-to-face medicines use reviews
- Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
- Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the GP on prescribing and monitoring.
- Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
- Domiciliary clinical medication review
- Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the GPs on prescribing and monitoring.
- See patients with single medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g., COPD, asthma).
- Make recommendations to GPs for medicine improvements.
- Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components (e.g., advise on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets).
- Work with the Federation and Member Practices to ensure compliance with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
- Undertake risk assessment and management and ensure compliance with medicines legislation.
- To contribute to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations and adult immunisation programmes.
- Undertake changes to medicines (switches) designed to save on medicine costs where a medicine or product with lower acquisition cost is now available.
- Answers all medicine-related enquiries from GPs, other practice staff and patients with queries about medicines.
- Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.
- Undertake simple audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team.
- Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation.
- Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations
- Monitor practice prescribing against the local health economys RAG list and make recommendations to GPs for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs).
- Assist practices in setting and maintaining a practice formulary that is hosted on the practices computer system.
- Auditing practices compliance against NICE technology assessment guidance.
- Provide newsletters or bulletins on important prescribing messages.
- Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance.
Essential
- In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-based
Desirable
- An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practice
Essential
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Good IT skills
- Able to recognise priorities
- Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
- Full Driving License / willingness to travel across patch
- Strong analytical and judgement skills
- Ability to analyse and interpret information and present results in a clear and concise manner
- Experienced working with EMIS Web Medical Record system
Desirable
- Able to effectively influence others to complete agreed actions
Essential
- Professional attitude, calm and efficient manner
- Conscientious, hardworking, self- motivated, work with minimal supervision
- Creative and tenacious in finding solutions to difficult problems
- Ability to work with both clinical and administrative staff
- Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
- Ability to engage and sustain relationships with all professionals, other organisations and service-users
- Honest, reliable and enthusiastic, has a flexible approach
- Committed to personal development, willingness to undergo further training or development
- Car user and willing to travel between PCN GP practices
Essential
- Pharmacy Degree
- Minimum 2 years post qualification experience in Pharmacy
- Experience of / familiarity with clinical systems such as Emis
- Current GPhC registration
Desirable
- Independent Prescribing
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
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