Description
We are seeking a Clinical Pharmacist - Independent Prescriber to provide primary support to general practice staff with regard to prescription and medicines management at different sites.
The successful candidate will help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on the transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patients in the GP practice(s).
Key responsibilities include:
- Demonstrate a significant reduction in the amount of GP time spent by seeing patients in appointment slots for clinical medication reviews, and responding to urgent medication requests and queries.
- Review the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs, and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines.
- Minor ailments triage: Managing caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments requesting GP appointments and triaging patients appropriately.
- Provide patient-facing clinics for those patients with questions, queries, and concerns about their medication in order to improve medication adherence.
- Contribute to multidisciplinary reviews about medication-related issues.
- Reconcile medicines following hospital discharge.
- Review daily pathology results for selected patients on known medicines.
- Targeted medication reviews particularly in high-risk patients.
- Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for the nurses and GPs on prescribing.
- Administer influenza and travel vaccines.
- Support practices with the management of patients with drug dependence and alcohol-related disorders.
The ideal candidate will have:
- Independent Prescribing qualification.
- Prescribing experience of at least 2 years.
- Experience in Primary Care/General Practice settings is desirable.
This is a fixed-term position for 6 months, with a salary range of £23.00 to £30.00 per hour.