Clinical Pharmacist

Job description Job responsibilities Key Duties & ResponsibilitiesMedication reviews, computer based or telephone calls for more complex patients, first source of information for patients about medication.Medication and treatment reconciliation systems for patients transferred out of and back into the practice, assess unplanned admissions and systems to prevent further unplanned admissions.Practice formularies maintain.QOF ensure data connectivity and proactive organisation to deliver maximum QOF for the practice. Regular QOF audits. Improve risk stratification of pathways and improve service delivery.Medicine management e.g. polypharmacyMedicines optimisation, support joint goal setting with patients and appropriate treatment selection to support better medicines experience. Reducing waste and improving outcomes. Follow up identified patient groups targeting better concordance leading to improved outcomes.Monitoring of long-term meds e.g. lithium,amiodarone, shared care medications and blood resultsMonitoring and managing repeat prescription wastage including patient adherence.Optimising medication/titration e.g. HFWork with clinical team members on long-term conditions (Diabetes, Asthma, COPD, Depression, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Hypertension, Arthritis, Pain, Heart Failure, Shared care drug monitoring)Manage patients with more complex long-term conditions such as difficult hypertension, compliance with lipid-lowering therapy.Assess and issue day to day acute medication requests as appropriate.Address day to day medication queries.Undertake repeat medication reviews and reauthorisation as appropriate.Review and load repeat medication for new patient registrations.Identify and support patients where concordance issues.Liaise with community pharmacists to solve common day to day prescribing problems like preparation availability/alternatives etc.Liaise with community pharmacists for the setting up, monitoring, and updating of all patients on NOMAD trays.Liaise with community nurses and prepare MARS sheets as needed and support practice anticipatory prescribing process in liaison with community nurses and Community PharmacyLiaising with care homes and community nurses re dressingsResponsibility for lithium and antipsychotic drug monitoring and review of blood resultsReview the prescribing for patients with multi-morbidity and polypharmacy.Report and follow up patient drug safety/adverse reactions.Support patient self-care and medicines management and concordance through education.Support staff education and development.Support development of local services to improve workflow within the practice.Work with clinical team members on long-term conditions (Diabetes, Asthma, COPD, Depression, Heart failure drug titrationWork with team to implement and maintain Practice formulary in longer term.Development: support development of local services to improve workflow within the practice

Service advancement; deliver specific disease management clinic through personal development and independent prescribing.