PCN Senior Pharmacist

The main duties of the role will be to support the PCN Practices with all aspects of medicines optimisation and structured medication reviews. The post holder will work within a multidisciplinary team to provide expertise in the medicine's aspects of the role. They will work directly alongside GP's, Advanced Clinical Practitioners as well as other AHP's employed across the PCN. In addition, they will also be responsible for the day-to-day clinical management of the Pharmacy team alongside the PCN Manager. This includes answering day to day clinical escalation queries, undertaking annual appraisals and intermediate performance reviews. This will be as well as the continuing to design the team. Main roles of the job may include but are not limited to: Patient facing Clinical Medication Reviews and telephone reviews. Medicines quality improvement Management of common/minor/self-limiting ailments Telephone medicines support Management of medicines in a care home setting Management of
long-term conditions Reviewing of safer prescribing and prescribing safety alerts. Contributing to the achievement of QoF/DES/IIF outcomes. Actioning acute prescription requests. Undertaking clinical audits and reporting findings back to the wider Practice and PCN team. The postholder should have an understanding of the wider health, social, economic and environmental factors impacting patients. An appreciation of the nature of Primary Care prescribing, concepts of safe prescribing and strategies to improve prescribing.