Job SummarySpecifically, the Practice-based Clinical Pharmacist will develop and manage medicines optimisation services within primary care. They will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to manage medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing. They will perform face-to-face medication reviews of patients with polypharmacy; especially for those with frailty and/or with multiple co-morbidities. They will undertake face-to-face reviews of patients with specific long-term conditions that fall within their competency. They will provide leadership on quality improvement and clinical audit, as well as managing aspects of medicines safety and antibiotic stewardship. They will contribute to practice financial stability through optimisation of medicines related targets in QOF. Duties and responsibilities: The key aims for the clinical pharmacist are: To reduce the medicines related workload on doctors Increase safety and quality of prescribed medicines Provide support on medicines related issues to the whole practice team Be a point of contact for patients regarding medicines queries They should support the following clinical work:Clinical Medication Review Chronic Disease Management (for example, managing hypertension/Type 2 Diabetes/Asthma/COPD patients, polypharmacy review) Medicines reconciliation on transfer between care providers They should also support the following practice development work:Focusing on QoF Domains, improving disease registersPrescribing Safety, Clinical audit, Local Enhanced Services support Lead on prescription management (systems and processes, ensuring monitoring is being done, support clerical staff) Note: This is not an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities, and the post holder may be required to undertake other duties, which fall within the grade of the job, in discussion with the manager.