Prescribing Clinical Pharmacist

Job description Job responsibilities Main Responsibilities Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing requests for repeat prescriptions and medicines reaching review dates; make necessary changes as an independent prescriber, and ensure patients are booked in for necessary monitoring tests where required. Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge, identify and rectify unexplained changes, perform a clinical medication review, including dose titration and booking of follow-up tests and work with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge. Manage patients and health care professionals medicine queries, including providing telephone patient advice. Support the Practice to deliver on QOF and locally commissioned services. Run own special interest clinics where responsible for prescribing as an independent prescriber for conditions where medicines have a large component. Provide medicines information and training to Practice healthcare professionals and admin staff. Review daily Pathology results for patients on known medicines. Lead as a source of medicines information for all the practice team and patients (e.g. doses, side effects and out of stock queries) Lead on changes in evidence-based prescribing. Contribute to reductions in medicine related hospital admissions and readmissions by supporting patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines and identifying and addressing medicines related issues. Develop and manage new services that are built around new medicines or NICE guidance where a new medicine/recommendations allow the development of a new care pathway (eg DOACs)

Plan, manage, monitor, advise and review general pharmaceutical care programmes for patients in core areas including long term conditions.