Nuffield House Surgery is looking to welcome a qualified and experienced clinical pharmacist into our busy practice, to play a full and active role within our multi-disciplinary team. The role is offered on a part-time basis for 30 hours per week.
The main responsibilities of the role include:
- Clinically assessing and treating patients, using expert knowledge of medicines, for specific disease areas.
- Providing specialist expertise in the use of medicines and medicine information (e.g. side-effects, dosage).
- Providing pharmaceutical medication review and health education advice to patients, by face-to-face, telephone or notes-based review, as agreed with the practice.
- Providing leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation and quality improvement.
- Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation and adult immunisation programmes.
- Processing specialist treatment letters.
- Processing hospital medication discharge letters.
- Acting as a key contact, for all medication related queries.
- Supporting improvements in clinical care, through practice-based audits and implementing change.
- Running clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics.
- Capturing relevant patient health information at all consultations including contributing to the quality outcomes framework.
- Providing clinical advice and expertise on medication.
- Establishing ongoing professional relationships with individual patients.
- Liaising with other providers, such as secondary care, community pharmacy and care or nursing homes, as necessary, to ensure the safe transfer of care.
- Delivering on and/or overseeing relevant aspects of the PCN Directed Enhanced Service (DES).
- Taking a central role in the clinical aspects of shared-care protocols, clinical research with medicines and liaison with specialist pharmacists.
- Being part of a professional clinical network and having access to appropriate clinical supervision;
- Supporting the PCN clinical director as necessary.
- Managing the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process, by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates.
- Reviewing prescribing against local and national targets, and engaging with the wider prescribing team to rectify any issues;
- Carrying out structured medicines-optimisation reviews in care homes.
- Contributing to the reduction of medicine wastage within practices across the PCN.