Primary duties and areas of responsibility From Start of Post: See (where appropriate) patients with single or multiple medical problems where medicine optimisation is required (e.g. COPD, asthma) Review the on-going need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking ensuring they get the best use of their medicines (i.e. medicines optimisation). Make appropriate recommendations to Senior Pharmacists or GPs for medicine improvement Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients and produce recommendations for senior clinical pharmacist, nurses and/or GP on prescribing and monitoring Provide patient facing clinics for those with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines in the practice Provide telephone support for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines Act as a source of medicines information for all of the practice team and patients, (such as around doses, side effects, adverse events, possible alternatives (i.e. around out of stocks) suggesting and recommending solutions 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 medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes) Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate healthcare professional for the right care. Ensuring that the addition of the pharmacist to the clinical team results in a reduction in workload for other clinicians Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy in line with the recommendations Medicines Management Team Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates and flagging up those needing a review. Ensure patients have appropriate monitoring tests in place when required Support the contractual requirements to support frail patients with their medication including medication review and some patient identification (i.e. patients with problematic polypharmacy) Undertake clinical audits of prescribing in areas directed by the GPs, feedback the results and implement changes in conjunction with the practice team Work with MMT to support the implementation of local and national guidelines including NICE, Prescribing Formularies etc Liaise with hospital colleagues where prescribing needs to be returned to specialists Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation Work with the general practice team to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved To support public health campaigns To provide specialist knowledge on all public health programmes available to the general public Implement changes to medicines that result from MHRA alerts, product withdrawal and other local and national guidance Role may evolve to include: Review the use of medicines most commonly associated with unplanned hospital admissions and readmissions through audit and individual patient reviews Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups Managing caseload of patients with common/minor/self-limiting ailments Signposting to community pharmacy and referring to GPs or other healthcare professionals where appropriate Please see full job description for further information. Study Leave/Training There are opportunities for a study leave allowance. Supervision Regular supervisions on a one-to-one basis including an annual formal appraisal are held with a line manager. If you are in a patient-facing role, you will also receive regular Clinical Supervisions with a Clinical Supervisor. Benefits Generous annual leave allowance Access to NHS pension Bespoke training programme Cycle to Work Scheme Employee Assistance Programme Enhanced maternity pay NHS discounts Leadership Development Programme Salary sacrifice schemes technology and electric vehicle Opportunities for secondments