Practice Clinical Pharmacist

Job responsibilities

Conduct Practice-based and telephone consultations with patients to review their medication such as for reviewing polypharmacy, especially for older people and people with multiple co-morbidities.

Reconcile medicines following patients discharge from hospital or clinic appointments

Review medications for newly registering patients

Practice as an independent prescriber working within scope of practice

• To provide high quality pharmacist support to the practice team members and patients in the practice.
• To deal with all suitable prescription query from community pharmacies, third party medication/supply companies and hospitals/other NHS organisations that cannot be routinely managed by members of the Practice Team
• To provide support, advice and guidance to members all of the practice team.
• To review repeat medications and address concerns where appropriate
• To work with the Practice Medicines Manager, offering guidance and support and dealing with queries, providing information as required.
• Undertaking medication reviews with patients in the practice, by telephone and if required via a home visit.
• Reconciling medication on hospital letters to that contained in the patients medical record, raising queries with other clinical staff as necessary, ensuring patients receive appropriate medication.
• Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy and wasteful prescribing through medication review
• Project work around existing and new areas of therapy (eg weight loss injections, and cholesterol-lowering injections)
• Cohort management eg DOAC monitoring

Research, Audit and Quality

Contribute to the provision of equitable, high quality services for all patients

Contribute to research and development projects

Education and Training

Following identified training needs, participate in training and seek to develop new and improved skills.

Actively participate in multidisciplinary education and training.

Participate in an annual appraisal.

Communication

Contribute to and work effectively within the primary care team

Assist in clinical audit and the setting and monitoring of standards of care.

Maintain accurate patient records

Advise and support other members of the team aiming towards common objectives.

COMPETENCE

You are responsible for limiting your actions to those which you feel competent to undertake. If you have any doubts about your competence during the course of your duties you should immediately seek advice from a GP.

RISK MANAGEMENT

Be proactive towards the management of risk in all of their actions. This entails the risk assessment of all situations, the taking of appropriate actions and reporting of all incidents, near misses and hazards.

RECORDS MANAGEMENT

You are legally responsible for all records that you gather, create or use as part of your work within the Organisation (including patient health, financial, personal and administrative), whether paper based or on computer. All such records are considered public records, and you have a legal duty of confidence to service users. You should consult the Managing Partner if you have any doubt as to the correct management of records with which you work.

HEALTH AND SAFETY REQUIREMENTS

The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the practice Health & Safety Policy, to include:

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines
• Identifying the risks involved in work activities and undertaking such activities in a way that manages those risks
• Making effective use of training to update knowledge and skills
• Using appropriate infection control procedures, maintaining work areas in a tidy and safe way and free from hazards
• Reporting potential risks identified.

FLEXIBILITY STATEMENT

The content of this Job Description represents an outline of the post only and is therefore not a precise catalogue of duties and responsibilities. The Job Description is therefore intended to be flexible and is subject to review and amendment in the light of changing circumstances, following consultation with the post holder.

CONFIDENTIALITY

• In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
• In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
• Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.
• Wilful or negligent handling of personal or sensitive information is a disciplinary offence. The Practice takes these matters extremely seriously.

EQUALITY

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

• Acting in a way that recognizes the importance of peoples rights, interpreting them in a way that is consistent with practice procedures and policies, and current legislation
• Respecting the privacy, dignity, needs and beliefs of patients, carers and colleagues
• Behaving in a manner which is welcoming to and of the individual, is non-judgmental and respects their circumstances, feelings ...