PRACTICE PHARMACIST inWashington inWashington PUBLISHED
TUE 12 NOV 2024
Concord Medical Practice rLApOEps
Additionally, the position entails monitoring shared care medications, conducting medication reconciliation and reviews for new and complex patients, managing acute prescription requests, and participating in research and teaching activities. The pharmacist will focus on patient safety by addressing significant incidents related to medications, staying informed on relevant alerts, and helping the practice achieve targets related to prescribing quality. Clinical supervision will be provided by the GP prescribing lead in all relevant tasks.
Concord Medical Practice are looking for an enthusiastic Practice Clinical Pharmacist to work closely with our team. The pharmacist will be expected to contribute to the leadership of medicines-related issues for the surgery.
The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team with the PCN pharmacists in a mainly patient-facing role. The post holder will take responsibility for areas of medicine management, clinical medication reviews, supporting the general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries. They will provide support for the repeat prescriptions system, deal with acute prescription requests, medicines reconciliation on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice, while providing clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement and manage some aspects of the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
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This will be in conjunction with the PCN pharmacy team
1)Medicine management
Working with the practice manager to ensure that all aspects of medicines management happen smoothly across the practice .
Updating polices and practices of medicines management in conjunction with the prescribing lead.
2)Shared care monitoring
Responsible for maintaining the searches and liaising with the hospital on all shared care medications, oral anticoagulants, DOACs, and any other high-risk medicines that require monitoring. This may include supervising administrative staff in these processes.
Initiating patients on DOACs.
Ensuring safe policies and practices of warfarin management and carrying out necessary audits for the enhanced payment schemes.
3)New patients medication checks
Ensuring all new patients have medication reviews, recalls added and repeat prescriptions sorted in time for when needed.
4)Medicine reconciliation
Reconciling medications and handling hospital tasks and requests on selected clinic and discharge letters.
5)Medication reviews
Carrying out medication reviews on more complex patients and those who are frail and may require a face-to-face or telephone review.
6)Day-to-day tasks from patients
Dealing with on-the-day pharmacy and patient queries from reception and clinicians.
7)Medication deprescribing
Deprescribing opioids or other drugs of addiction or high-risk medication appropriately with support from the prescribing lead
Monitoring patient discharges from hospital on opioid medication
8)Research and teaching
Contributing to & participating in research studies in the practice
9)Patient safety
Contributing to learning and significant safety incidents concerning medication in the practice.
Monitoring MRHA alerts and other alerts that come from ICB or other sources, auditing areas of potential concern, and contributing to improvements in safety.
Keep the practice updated on safety and prescribing issues and disseminate this information to all prescribers at the monthly management meetings.
10)Helping with areas in the practice to achieve targets
Looking at areas of prescribing in QOF, CQC, ESDS and other LESs or DES as required to help the practice in these areas.
The GP prescribing lead will provide clinical supervision in all these areas.
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