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Clinical Pharmacist - Independent PrescriberK&W Healthcare Ltd • London, United Kingdom
Clinical Pharmacist - Independent Prescriber

Clinical Pharmacist - Independent Prescriber

K&W Healthcare Ltd • London, United Kingdom
27 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description
Job summary
The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regard to prescription and medicines management at different sites. They 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). They will deliver an efficient, cost-effective, and high-quality clinical service by providing clinical and professional development to the clinical workforce within K&W Healthcare & member practices.

Main duties of the job
  • Demonstrate a significant reduction in the amount of GP time spent (especially locum GP time) by seeing patients in appointment slots for clinical medication reviews, and responding to urgent medication requests and queries. Complex patients or those with additional needs may require longer appointment slots.
  • Review the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs, and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines. Ensuring they get the best use of 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.
  • Minor ailments appointment slots as appropriate

About us
K&W Healthcares primary objective is to support GP Practices and services across the Brent localities of Kingsbury, Willesden and Wembley.Our aim is to develop quality primary care for patients within Brent and strive for continuous improvement in the delivery of primary healthcare services across our GP practices.

K&W Healthcare is a GP-led organisation made up of 24 GP practices serving a registered population of over 300,000 patients. We are committed to improving the care provided to patients, reducing health inequalities and raising the quality and standards of GP practices.

You can find out more about our governing body, member practices and how we work with Brent Integrated Care Partnership to provide better outcomes for our patients

Job responsibilities
  • Clinical reviews/input
  • Demonstrate a significant reduction in the amount of GP time spent (especially locum GP time) by seeing patients in appointment slots for clinical medication reviews, and responding to urgent medication requests and queries. Complex patients or those with additional needs may require longer appointment slots.
  • Review the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs, and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines. Ensuring they get the best use of 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.
  • Minor ailments appointment slots as appropriate
  • Contribute to multidisciplinary reviews about medication-related issues
  • Reconcile medicinesfollowing hospital discharge
  • Review daily pathology results for selected patients on known medicines
  • Targeted medication reviews particularly in high-risk patients (frail elderly, poly-pharmacy, renaland hepatic impairment, high-risk medicines, etc.)
  • 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.
  • Signpost patients to other services or sources of information in addition to medication information when necessary in order to improve the general health and well-being of patients.
  • Make appropriate recommendations to the senior clinical pharmacist or GPs for medical improvement.
  • Unplanned Admissions and Discharge
  • Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audits and individual patient reviews.
  • Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups.
  • To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care, and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes and working with patients and Community Pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post-discharge. Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicine supply to high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).
  • Medicines optimisation
  • Assist with QOF targets, especially with the management of long-term conditions: Asthma, COPD, diabetes, hypertension, and heart failure- seeing these patients where their long-term condition needs to be reviewed or where dose optimizations and monitoring are required as per guidelines.
  • Undertake training/certification in health assessments, history taking, and physical examination. Commit to starting an independent prescribing course within 6 months of the probationary period ending
  • Reduce inappropriate poly-pharmacy.
  • Address medicines adherence with patients and provide follow-up phone calls to check progress.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
  • Independent Prescribing qualification.
  • Prescribing experience of at least 2 years.

Desirable
  • Experience in Primary Care/General Practice settings.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: HR Administrator, Shumaisa Shaikh Surab, shumaisa.shaikhsurab@nhs.net
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