Clinical Pharmacist - London, United Kingdom - K&W Healthcare Ltd

Description

Job summary

Job Overview :

The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medicines management. They will help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and 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). 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 post holder will ensure that the practice integrates with community and hospital pharmacy to help utilise skill mix, improve patient outcomes, ensure better access to healthcare, and help manage workload. The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice. The post-holder will deliver a comprehensive range of high-quality pharmaceutical services, to include the assessment of patients at K&W sites, practices, care homes and as required attend housebound patients. They will be able to consult on the telephone, via the internet and face to face.

Main duties of the job

-Clinical reviews/input

-Medicines optimisation

-QOF targets

-Audits

-Risk Stratification

-Repeat prescribing process

-Medicines management

-Public Health

About us

Primary Care networks are newly formed groups of GP practices working collaboratively to provide enhanced and diverse services to patients. They are evolving and receiving government investment to support their development. This is an exciting time to join PCNs with the range of services and additional roles, only increasing over the next few years.

We have a dynamic team working across our practices and being part of a wider team across our organisation greater mean of support, swapping ideas and clinical supervision makes the experience all the better.

This is an excellent opportunity to join our team. Our main criteria are for an enthusiastic, flexible individuals. The post holder will act within their professional boundaries, working within a fast past organisation.

Job responsibilities

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, respond to urgent medication requests and queries. Complex patient or those with additional needs may require longer appointment slots.

Review the on-going 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 – patient ages 2-70, weekday mornings, minute appointments for minor ailment consultations.

Contribute to multidisciplinary reviews about medication related issues

Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge

Review daily pathology results for selected patients on known medicines

Targeted medication reviews particularly in high risk patients (frail elderly, poly-pharmacy, renal and hepatic impairment, high risk medicines etc.)

Undertake clinical medication review with patients and produce recommendation for the nurses and GPs on prescribing.

Administer influenza and travel vaccines

Support practices with management of patients with drug dependence and alcohol related disorders.

Sign post patients to other services or sources of information in addition to medication information when necessary in order to improve the general health and wellbeing of patients.

Make appropriate recommendations to the senior clinical pharmacist or GPs for medicines improvement.

Unplanned Admissions and Discharge

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.

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 ( those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).

Medicines optimization

Assist with QOF targets, especially with management of long term conditions: Asthma, COPD, diabetes, hypertension, heart failure- seeing these patients where their long term condition needs to be reviewed or where dose optimisations and monitoring are required as per guidelines.

Undertake training/certification in health assessments, history taking and physical examination. Commit to starting an independent prescribing course within 6 months of probationary period ending

Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy

Address medicines adherence with patients and provide follow up phone call to check progress.

Audits and Risk Stratification

Repeat prescribing process

Medicines management

Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term condition reviews etc.

Public Health

Maintaining an open door policy throughout the day unless consulting with a patient. K&W & practice personnel can contact the clinical pharmacist for any medication advice and urgent issues that they feel are appropriate.

Practice sessions will be set-up on an agreed day(s) of the week. Admin and GPs can directly book in patients and telephone consults. GPs can also directly book patients requiring pharmacist interventions into sessions.

An overview (brief) will be developed about the clinical pharmacist role and the appropriate types of patients that can be booked into sessions.

Other duties

This list is not exhaustive and the time spent on each will vary on a daily and weekly basis. The post holder will be responsible for managing their time appropriately to make sure that each role work stream is delivered on time.

Qualifications

Essential

Experience

Desirable