Lead Clinical Pharmacist

Job description Job responsibilities Clinical:1. To lead and direct clinical pharmacy activities when delivering a specialist pharmacy service, including identifying and resolving individual patient medicines care issues and providing specialist pharmacy advice. This involves employing a systematic approach to individual patient care, conducting drug monitoring (TDM), and addressing adverse drug reactions (ADR) promptly and effectively. 2. To provide education and support, as part of the multidisciplinary team, to patients managing long-term conditions, enhancing patient knowledge and concordance. 3. To promptly and efficiently answer medicines information queries from patients and healthcare professionals, improving information provision and pharmacy awareness.Team Management: 4. Provide leadership, direction, and support to the wider pharmacy team in their roles and tasks related to prescribing. 5. Set performance objectives, conduct regular evaluations, and provide constructive feedback to ensure high-quality work output from the wider pharmacy team, including clinical pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. 6. Coordinate the workflow within the team, ensuring efficient processes, and timely completion of tasks related to prescribing activities within the PCN. 7. Coordinate the rota, and coordination of tasks and activities among team members, ensuring adherence to NHSE and local protocols and guidelines for efficient processes and timely completion of prescribing-related tasks. Resource Management: 8. Lead the identification and delivery of prescribing efficiencies with medicines, contributing to the managed entry of new medicines and ensuring adherence to local and national recommendations. 9. Manage staff on a day-to-day basis, including recruitment and HR functions, to ensure delivery of the clinical pharmacy service within the specialist area aligns with national standards and service specifications. Prescribing Management: 10. Contribute to the development and implementation of evidence-based prescribing systems for primary care, ensuring adherence to local and national recommendations and attainment of Prescribing Indicators. 11. Provide leadership and contribute to the development of clinics and systems to maximise benefits and minimise risks to patients of medicines, particularly in chronic disease management. Clinical Governance: 12. Facilitate the delivery of national and local NHS Health strategy policies, monitoring and evaluating prescribing against quality standards to ensure safe practices and service quality improvement. Community Pharmacy Development: 13. Participate in developing Cam Medical PCN (Primary Care Network), supporting key projects and task groups, and fostering relationships between community pharmacists and practices. Education and Research: 14. Lead pharmacy research and audit, reporting findings at local and national levels. 15. Deliver education and training to pharmacists, healthcare professionals, students, patients, and carers through formal settings, workshops, and teaching sessions. Communication: 16. Document pharmaceutical care issues in patient records and inform medical/nursing staff of urgent actions required. 17. Implement and communicate clinical governance and medicines management objectives, ensuring adherence to guidelines and safe prescribing practices. 18. Provide specialist information and support to junior pharmacists.19. Convey pharmaceutical information tactfully to patients and healthcare professionals, ensuring understanding and compliance. 20. Facilitate effective communication within the pharmacy team and with other healthcare providers to ensure continuity of care. Quality: 21. Lead the development and implementation of pharmacy and practice-wide guidelines and policies, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation. Medicines Management: 22. Support senior management and partners across the PCN in various activities including CQC requirements, governance, and risk management, with a focus on medicines management. 23. Lead the oversight to ensure effective monitoring and action-taking on high-risk drug alerts and patient safety alerts, with accountability for compliance during CQC inspections. Research & Audit: 24. Conduct and lead audits and research to improve services and ensure compliance with guidelines.

25. Present audit data and research findings to pharmacy teams and the PCN Board for review and action.