Clinical Prescribing Pharmacist

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; Supporting practice dispensary; 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 Conducting care-planning, including: mental health, admission avoidance schemes and end-of-life patients. Undertaking minor ailments triage and directing patients, based on clinical need; Capturing relevant patient health information at all consultations including contributing to the quality outcomes framework; Monitoring patients with complex, long-term conditions such as hypertension, diabetes and COPD, ensuring that medication is optimised, titrated, monitored and complied with; 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; 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