Clinical Pharmacist

Job description Job responsibilities Job Summary:To improve patients health outcomes and the efficiency of the Primary Care team by providing direct, accessible and timely medicines expertise including face to face. To proactively transfer workload relating to medicines optimisation issues to improve patients care, safety and free up clinical staff to spend more time on clinical care.Duties and Responsibilities: Provide proactive leadership on medicines and prescribing systems to the PCN multidisciplinary team, patients and their carers. Develop and deliver patient facing services and clinics which improve patients outcomes, reflect the needs of the PCN population and shift workload from other disciplines. Deliver direct patient consultations and prescribing as part of the practice and cluster multidisciplinary team approaches acute illness. Improve patient and carer understanding of, confidence in and compliance with their medicines. Provide pharmaceutical consultations and home visits to patients with long term conditions as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team. Field medicines and prescribing queries from patients and staff Organize and oversee the PCNS medicines optimisation system including the repeat prescribing and medication review systems. Deliver high quality medication review and develop bespoke medicines treatment plans for patients (particularly the elderly, complex patients, and those at high risk of admission) Improve the safety and quality of prescribing following hospital admissions and attendance Improve the quality and effectiveness of prescribing through clinical audit and education to improve performance against NICE standards, prescribing guidance, and other clinical standards. Develop yourself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training, and service redesign activities Provide a clear and active link with community pharmacists and other stakeholders in the medicines supply chain to improve patient experience and manage issue Deliver training, monitoring and guidance to other clinicians and staff on medicines issues

Contribute to the achievement and maintenance of good to outstanding CQC registration status.