Clinical Pharmacist - Frailty Integrated Neighbourhood Team

Clinical Pharmacist - Frailty Integrated Neighbourhood Team An exciting new opportunity hasarisen for us to recruit a Part Time Clinical Pharmacist working 22.5 hours per week (with potential toincrease to full time) to join our rapidly expanding primary care team, workingacross Richmondshire Primary Care Network (PCN). The Network comprises of 8 practices coveringRichmond, Leyburn, Hawes, Catterick, Scorton and Aldbrough St John. We support almost44,000 patients across the area.

We are looking for an experienced and motivatedclinical pharmacist to join our existing team to support our GPs and the widerprimary care workforce. Working within your professional boundaries, you willbe responsible for working collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary primarycare teams across all practices within the PCN.

If you are committed andenthusiastic & looking for an exciting role within an evolving andinnovative primary care setting; and if you are interested in progressing yourdevelopment and contributing to the development of innovative models of primaryhealthcare in North Yorkshire, then we would be delighted to hear from you.

Main duties of the job Wealready have a well embedded Frailty Integrated Neighbourhood Team who areintegral in improving the quality of planned care in Care Homes and Supported Livingsettings. They are a specialisedvisiting team who coordinate the provision of tailored and multi-disciplinarycare to residents, in line with the requirements of the national EnhancedHealth in Care Homes Service Specification. This role is influential in thecontinued development of this service provision. It is part of the pioneering integration ofRichmondshire Primary Care and Community Teams with Older Persons service developmentat the local Friarage Hospital in Northallerton.

YouWill add a unique and valuable contribution to the skill mix of the primarycare team and multi-disciplinary team working within Care Homes and Supported LivingAccommodation. Older people often have multiple medications for a range ofillnesses, may benefit less from them and are at higher risk of side effectsand interactions, causing additional problems. The Pharmacist will deliver StructuredMedication Reviews and contribute to MDTs. By sharing your expert knowledge onmedication with the wider clinical team, leading to overall improvements incare related to medicines and interprofessional learning.

About us You will be employed by ourlocal GP Federation, Heartbeat Primary Care CIC. It represents sixteen practices across thelocalities of Hambleton and Richmondshire. It was formed in 2014 to facilitateand encourage joint working between practices and with other partners. It has forged close working relationshipswith all member practices across the locality and continues to support thedevelopment of relationships across primary care. It has an outstanding track record of collaborationand innovation and currently hosts several PCN Additional Roles (ARRS) posts onbehalf of Richmondshire PCN.

Job responsibilities Integration and working as a team is seen as essential part of our PCN and as such you will work alongside our practice-based pharmacists. This allows for the provision of essential support from your professional peers

You will significantly contribute to patient safety, by bringing medicines and prescribing expertise to support patients and carers with the management of their long term conditions including concordance and support for healthy lifestyles.

We have long planned to provide the INTs services to patients in their own homes, a vision supported by the 10 year plan. The successful applicant will be able to contribute to both the planning and provision of this service.

Acting within your professional boundaries and supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacists in primary care you will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient facing role.

The post holder will work with the wider PCN team to ensure that all aspects of the Primary Care Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service and its associated service specifications, relevant to this post, are realised.

The post holder will take responsibility for areas of chronic disease management within practices and undertake clinical medication reviews to proactively manage patients with complex polypharmacy.

The post holder will provide primary support to general practice staff with regards to prescription and medication queries and help support the repeat prescription system. They will deal with acute prescription requests and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care for patients. They will support the development and delivery of systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines whilst addressing both public and social care needs of patients in primary care.

The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement as well as contributing to some aspects of Quality and Outcomes Framework and Investment and Impact Fund work where appropriate.

The role is pivotal to improving quality of care for patients and operational efficiencies within primary care and therefore requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within general practice.

The post holder will be supported to develop their role to become a non-medical prescriber if not already a prescriber.

Key responsibilities

Responsibilities may include but not be limited to the following:

See patients with LTC(s) where medicines optimisation is required and review the on-going need for each medicine

Undertake structured medication reviews with patients, including arranging appropriate monitoring

Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration

Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary team meetings

Where appropriate and required, provide patient facing clinics and or phone consultations for those with questions and concerns about their medicines

Reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals and outpatient appointments

Managing a caseload of patients with specific ailments while working within a scope of practice and limits of competence signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate

Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients identification of cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines through pre-prepared practice computer searches

Contribute pharmaceutical advice for the development and implementation of new services that have medicinal components advice on treatment pathways and patient information leaflets

Analyse, present and interpret medicines data to highlight issue and risks to support decision making

Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance

Monitor practice prescribing against national guidelines and formulary recommendations

Work to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved

Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmission through audit and individual patient reviews

Confidentiality

• In the course of seeking treatment, patients entrust us with, or allow us to gather, sensitive information in relation to their health and other matters. They do so in confidence and have the right to expect that staff will respect their privacy and act appropriately
• In the performance of the duties outlined in this Job Description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to local practices and Heartbeat Primary Care CIC as business organisations. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential
• Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of Heartbeat and practices may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with Heartbeat and practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

Health & Safety

The post-holder will assist in promoting and maintaining their own and others health, safety and security as defined in the Heartbeat Health & Safety Policy, to include:

• Using personal security systems within the workplace according to practice guidelines

Infection Control all clinical and non-clinical staff groups

Responsible for, in respect of your area of work, for ensuring so far as is reasonably practicable and in accordance with policies, that you are aware of your individual responsibilities in regard to infection prevention and control, this requires you to:

Maintain safe infection prevention and control the environment for yourself and others

Be familiar with and comply with current infection prevention and control guidelines, policies and procedures

Raise matters of non-compliance with your manager

Attend infection prevention and control mandatory training as directed by your manager

Be appraised in relation to infection prevention and control

Equality and Diversity

The post-holder will support the equality, diversity and rights of patients, carers and colleagues, to include:

• Acting in a way that recognises the importance of peoples rights . click apply for full job details