Clinical Pharmacist

Job description Job responsibilities Responsibilities underpinning the role:-Chairing or acting as community representative in the Neighbourhood MDT, also attended by a hospital consultant, MACCT admin team, and surgery GPs to help to facilitate patient discussion.-MACCT referral triaging accessing multiple systems including EMIS, North Mid and Whittington hospital systems, social services records to create a full profile for each patient, before referring to appropriate team members based on patient needs.-Perform home visits and desktop reviews-To develop and facilitate a good working relationship with community pharmacists and other local providers of healthcare.-To plan and organise own workload, including audit and project work, and training sessions for members of the practice team, community nurse team, patients, and carers.-To record personally generated information and maintain a database of information relating to the work done in the practice(s). Personally generated information includes information and records relating to audit and clinical work undertaken by the post holder, reference notes relating to clinical/technical information. The database includes maintaining up-to-date, detailed records of all work done in the practices for which the post holder is accountable (done by the post holder or others)-To maintain registration as a pharmacist and comply with appropriate professional codes.-As appropriate to the post, to maintain and develop professional competence and expertise, keep up to date with medical/therapeutic evidence and opinion, and local and national service, legislation, and policy developments, agree objectives and a personal development plan and participate in the appraisal process.-To attend local, regional, and national meetings of relevance as agreed with the post holders line manager.-To undertake any other duties commensurate with the post holders grade as agreed with the post holders line manager.-All employees should understand that it is their personal responsibility to comply with all organisational and statutory requirements (e.g. health and safety, equal treatment and diversity, confidentiality, and clinical governance).Medication review for Older People with Frailty:-Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients (including patients in care homes) and produce recommendations for the GP on prescribing and monitoring.-Information about weekly MACCT MDT attendance to discuss all newly visited patients in the past week, and to provide clinical support to colleagues. Pharmacists will periodically be responsible for chairing and minuting these meetings.To support the care closer to home integrated networks:-Set up and manage systems to identify and support high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those on 4+ medicines or unplanned admissions).-Provide advice on medicines optimisation and develop personalised care plans.Long-term condition clinics, e.g. Diabetes:-See patients with single medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma). Make recommendations to GPs for medicine improvements.Clinical advice and expertise on medicines to practice staff, multidisciplinary teams and patients:-Answers all medicine-related enquiries from MACCT colleagues, GPs, other practice staff and patients with queries about medicines.-Signposting to community pharmacy for management of minor illness, new medicines service and other locally commissioned service.-Referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals, where appropriate.Training & supervision:-Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics, medicines optimisation, consultation skills and motivational interviewing.-Support networks for the clinical pharmacists in the local health economy: community pharmacists; hospital and ICB prescribing advisers.-To support the RPS Faculty development for clinical pharmacists.Medicines safety:-Undertake simple audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the clinical lead.Antibiotic Stewardship:-Promotion of evidence-based practice and interventions to prevent the development of infections to practice