ARRS Clinical Pharmacist

Job description Job responsibilities 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 medication reviews and health education advice to patients, by face-to-face, telephone or notes-based review, as agreed with the practice; Providing leadership on medicines optimisation (MOLES) and quality improvement projects; Contributing to public health campaigns, including flu vaccinations, childhood immunisation and adult immunisation programmes; Actioning specialist treatment, and hospital medication discharge letters; Supporting the practice dispensary team where required; Actioning relevant medical safety alerts; Acting as a key contact, for all medication related queries; Supporting improvements in clinical care, through practice-based audits and implementing change; Capturing relevant patient health information at all consultations including contributing to the quality outcomes framework; Monitoring patients with polypharmacy and complex, long-term conditions such as hypertension, diabetes and COPD, ensuring that medication is optimised, titrated, monitored and complied with; Liaising with other providers, such as secondary care, community pharmacy and care or nursing homes, as necessary. Delivering on and/or overseeing relevant aspects of the PCN Directed Enhanced Service (DES). Being part of a professional clinical network and having access to appropriate clinical supervision through the PCN. 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; Carrying out structured medicines-optimisation reviews in care homes; Contributing to the reduction of medicine wastage within the practice.