Clinical Pharm Band 7 - London, United Kingdom - Waltham Forest GP Federated Network

Waltham Forest GP Federated Network

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Waltham Forest Primary Care Networks

Job Description

Clinical Pharmacist (Band 7)

Job title:
Clinical Pharmacist

Accountable to:
PCN Clinical Director

Location/Site:
PCN Members Practice

Duration Fixed Term Contract - 12 months

Job Purpose:
Waltham Forest Federated GP Network are supporting the Primary Care Networks across the borough to recruit Clinical Pharmacists

The Clinical Pharmacist will have a key role in supporting delivery of the new Network Contract DES Service specifications.

For the new Structured Medications Review and Optimisation requirements this will include tackling over-medication of patients, including inappropriate use of antibiotics, withdrawing medicines no longer needed through NHS-led programmes such as low priority prescribing and medicines optimisation more widely.

For Enhanced Health in Care Homes residents will benefit from regular clinical-pharmacy led medicines reviews.

Core Duties:

The Clinical Pharmacist will:

Work as part of a multidisciplinary team in a patient facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using their expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
Uphold a prescribing qualification, or training to become a prescriber, and will work with and alongside the multidisciplinary team across the Primary Care Network.
Take responsibility for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, people in care homes, those with multiple longterm conditions (in particular COPD and asthma) and people with learning disabilities or autism (through STOMP
Stop Over Medication Programme).
Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines while helping to address both the public health and social care needs of patients in the network.
Provide leadership on person centred medicines optimisation (including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance) and quality improvement, while contributing to the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medications to get the best from them, reduce waste and promote selfcare.
Support further integration of general practice with the wider healthcare teams (including community and hospital pharmacy) to help improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare and help manage general practice workload.
Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacists across networks and the wider health system.
Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists (including mental health and reduction of inappropriate antipsychotic use in people with learning difficulties) and anticoagulation.

Other Duties:

Work within the policies of scheme and Practices.
Maintain a good working knowledge of health and safety procedures.
Promote client involvement in the management of the service.
Participate in regular supervision sessions and appraisals with your line manager. Attend training and development activities as identified and participate in meetings as required.
Maintain administration systems and workspace used in a clean and tidy condition.
Maintain a good working knowledge of Health and Safety procedures and fire precautions, and operate the correct procedures and participate in policy development and data collection where appropriate.
Work flexibly to meet the needs of clients.
To undertake any other duties appropriate to the grade and purpose of the job as may be agreed by the post holder.

Communication

The post-holder should recognize the importance of effective communication within the team and will strive to:

Communicate effectively with other team members.
Communicate effectively with patients and carers
Recognise people's needs for alternative methods of communication and respond accordingly.

Health & Safety

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, the practice Health & Safety Manual, and the practice Infection Control policy and published procedures

This will 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
Actively reporting of health and safety hazards and infection hazards immediately when recognised
Keeping own work areas and general/patient areas generally clean, assisting in the maintenance of general standards of cleanl