Hatters PCN Lead Clinical Pharmacist
19 days ago
Luton
To provide leadership and development for the PCN pharmacy team whilst continuing to deliver high quality, patient-centred clinical care. • To lead and mentor the pharmacy team, support clinical decision-making and contribute to competency assessment, supervision and professional development, • To provide operational leadership for medicines reconciliation, prescribing queries, electronic repeat dispensing and shared-care arrangements, • To promote medication safety, respond to medicines alerts and ensure appropriate monitoring for high-risk therapies, • To help to translate national and local priorities into effective practice, • To deliver structured medication reviews and medicines optimisation for patients, including those with long-term conditions, high-risk medicines or complex needs, • To run patient-facing clinics and provide care by telephone, face to face, including domiciliary or care-home visits where required, • To lead audits, searches, quality‑improvement work, policies and protocols, using data to monitor impact and report progress, • To work closely with GPs, nurses, practice managers, community pharmacy, hospital teams, the ICB, INT and other partners to improve pathways and patient outcomes, • To support PCN DES and Neighbourhood priorities, CQC readiness, public‑health initiatives, health equity and consistent ways of working across member practices, • To oversee key medicines related programmes, • Clinical – Provide advanced clinical pharmacy input including:, • Structured Medication Reviews for complex patients, • Long‑term condition management (e.g. hypertension, asthma, diabetes), • Medicines reconciliation post‑discharge, • Antimicrobial stewardship and prescribing safety, • Provide expert clinical advice to GPs and other healthcare professionals on safe, evidence‑based and cost‑effective prescribing, • In collaboration with colleagues such as GPs, nurses and healthcare assistants, be aware of the holistic needs of the patient and adapt therapy where appropriate, • Address the day‑to‑day issues raised by patients / staff in relation to medicines management and escalated / investigate / prevent recurrence as necessary, • Competently manage and undertake patient clinics, organising workload and processes around this to ensure timely patient follow‑ups and medicine optimisation, • Work collaboratively with MDTs to ensure seamless integration of pharmacy into patient pathways, • Line manage, mentor and support the pharmacy workforce, ensuring role clarity, supervision, appraisal and continuous professional development (CPD), • Champion a culture of continuous improvement, mentoring and shared learning, • Engage in the recruitment, conduct or performance management of Pharmacy Team members, with the support of the PCN Manager, • Take responsibility for own development, learning and performance and demonstrating skills and activities to others who are undertaking similar work #J-18808-Ljbffr