Clinical Pharmacist

1 month ago


Blackpool, Blackpool, United Kingdom Blackpool South Primary Care Network Full time
Job Summary

The post-holder will play a vital role in progressing the function of MedicineReviews within Blackpool South Primary Care Network, integrating with practices to support and deliver improved medicine management across our population.

Main Duties
  1. Work within clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management, provide face-to-face and telephone structured medication reviews, support nursing teams with long-term conditions, and ensure systems for safe prescribing.
  2. Perform reviews of patients with polypharmacy with an emphasis on our elderly/frail population, work with residential and care homes, and those with multiple co-morbidities.
  3. Be an Independent Prescriber or complete training to become a prescriber.
About Us

The Blackpool South Primary Care Network was formed in 2019, and we are a collaboration of 4 GP practices serving approximately 37,000 patients.

Job Responsibilities
  1. Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role to clinically assess and treat patients using expert knowledge of medicines for specific disease areas.
  2. Be responsible for the care management of patients with chronic diseases and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage people with complex polypharmacy, especially the elderly, frail, people in care homes, and those with multiple co-morbidities.
  3. Undertake medication review work in the most appropriate settings, which may include GP practices, care homes, domiciliary visits, and attending care homes and frailty MDT.
  4. Identify and carry out targeted medication reviews for high-risk patients, as well as medications reviews for newly registered patients.
  5. Provide general practitioners with appropriate recommendations and actions plans following medication review clinics with patients to optimise their treatment with medicines and ensure appropriate follow-up with patients.
  6. Record medication review plans, recommendations, and outcomes on GP computer clinical systems and own clinical notes in accordance with practice procedures.
  7. Provide specialist expertise in the use of medicines while helping to address both public health and social care needs of patients at the PCN's practice(s) and to help in tackling inequalities.
  8. Provide leadership on person-centred medicines optimisation, including ensuring prescribers in the practice conserve antibiotics in line with local antimicrobial stewardship guidance, and contribute to the quality and outcomes framework and enhanced services.
  9. Through structured medication reviews, support patients to take their medicines to get the best from them, reduce waste, and promote self-care.
  10. Attend relevant MDT Network meetings, providing information and feedback, as part of the PCN multi-disciplinary team.
  11. Provide a leadership role in supporting 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.
  12. Develop relationships and work closely with other pharmacy professionals across PCNs and the wider health and social care system.
  13. Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists, liaison with community pharmacists, and anticoagulation.
  14. Encourage cost-effective prescribing within the practices and provide proactive leadership on medicines and prescribing systems to the PCN multidisciplinary team.
  15. Maximise the use of technology and management systems to provide PCN level management of safety, risk, and information.
  16. Undertake responsibility for areas of QoF, Quality Contract, and QIPP for the network practices and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.
  17. Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
  18. Actively participate in regular co-supervision of peers and attend regular team meetings.
  19. Report medicines-related incidents, contribute to investigations, and root cause analysis, as well as participating in serious incident investigations and multidisciplinary case reviews.
  20. Deliver training, mentoring, and guidance to other clinicians and staff on medicine issues.
  21. Undertake tasks consistent with the level of the post and the scope of the role, ensuring that work is delivered in a timely and effective manner.
Person Specification
  1. Degree in pharmacy with postgraduate experience in pharmacy.
  2. Independent Prescriber, qualified from approved training pathway or equivalent.
  3. Demonstrable commitment to professional and personal development.
  4. Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Committee.


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