PCN Clinical Pharmacist

This role will involve – 

• Run clinics where medicines are the main interventions e.g. anticoagulant monitoring clinics.
• Conduct spirometry, child immunisation, travel vaccination, diabetic foot checks and NHS Health Checks as well as other roles as required on completion of appropriate training.
• Conduct care planning including mental health, admission avoidance schemes and End of Life patients.
• Review daily Pathology results and act on results.
• Undertake minor ailments triage and direct patients based on clinical need to capture 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.
• Act across the interface liaising with other providers i.e. secondary care, community Pharmacy and care/nursing homes as necessary to ensure safe transfers of care.
• Deliver on and/or oversee relevant aspects of the PCN Directed Enhanced Service (DES).
• Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols, clinical research with medicines, liaison with specialist pharmacists
• Be part of a professional clinical network and have access to appropriate clinical supervision.
• Support the PCN clinical director as necessary
•  Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates.
• Review prescribing against local and national targets and engage with the wider prescribing team to rectify.
• Carry out structured medicines optimisation reviews in care homes
• To contribute to the reduction of medicine wastage within practices across the PCN.