Clinical responsibilities Undertake patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations with patients Carry out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g., checking inhaler technique), medicines reconciliation, and actioning hospital-initiated medication changes. Where required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively; Support, as determined by the PCN, medication reviews and medicines reconciliation for new care home patients and synchronising medicines for patient transfers between care settings and linking with local community pharmacists. Provide expertise to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health inequalities; Take a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients; Support initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing; Assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and management incentive schemes and patient safety audits; Support the Clinical Pharmacist team with Structured Medication Reviews (SMRs), e.g. by ordering necessary monitoring tests, and prioritising patients Technical and Administrative responsibilities Work with the PCN multi-disciplinary team to ensure efficient medicines optimisation, including implementing efficient ordering and return processes, and reducing wastage; Provide leadership for medicines optimisation systems across the PCN, supporting practices with a range of services to get the best value from medicines by encouraging and implementing Electronic Prescriptions, safe repeat prescribing systems, and timely monitoring and management of high-risk medicines; Provide training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines Develop relationships with other pharmacy technicians, pharmacists and members of the multidisciplinary team to support integration of the pharmacy team across health and social care including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care, and mental health teams. Supervision The postholder will have access to appropriate clinical supervision and an appropriate named individual in the PCN to provide general advice and support.