Job Description

Job Overview

As a Residential Care/Nursing Home Pharmacist, you will be the lead specialist responsible for the medication and structured medicines review for residential and nursing home residents and other high-risk patients. The postholder will facilitate regular MDTs in Residential/Nursing Homes, liaising with Residential & Nursing Homes, GP Practices, Community Pharmacies, Community Service Providers, Mental Health Service Providers, Secondary Care, and other stakeholders on a regular basis. You will be responsible for contributing to high quality prescribing across the PCN. You will contribute to the review of other high risk patient groups e.g., vulnerable patients residing in their own home.

Key duties and responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for leading the delivery of structured medication reviews and scheduling of regular MDTs in residential/nursing homes and to other high risk patients requiring review, liaising with all relevant stakeholders to:

Ensure that residents in residential and nursing homes, and their own

home (as required) have a thorough medication review to:

ensure all prescribing is evidence-based and cost effective. discontinue inappropriate items. alter doses where necessary. initiate medication if required using prescribing qualification where clinically appropriate. ensure all appropriate monitoring is carried out. ensure appropriate referral to other services.
Provide a highly specialised medication review which will contribute to

improved management of dementia, reduced falls, prevention of acute kidney

injury and support a reduction in the inappropriate prescribing of antibiotics.

Work with residential/nursing home staff to ensure the safer use of

medication providing education and training where necessary.

Handle, order, ensure the safe storage and monitor the cost-effectiveness of

prescription medicines and minimise wastage

Schedule residential/nursing home visits to include a review of any issues with

new admissions or patients returning from hospital, follow up MDT work and

undertake general housekeeping work -i.e., removing items no longer needed, ensuring directions are clear, synchronising meds, adding & ordering meds, dealing with errors, minimising waste etc.

Manage queries regarding covert administration, which may involve

comprehensive medication review, nest interest decisions with relatives and

completion of necessary paperwork.

Lead the review within residential and nursing homes of the ordering systems

for medication to ensure they are robust and minimise wastage.

Lead the implementation and development of pathways, guidelines, etc.

Undertake risk management and ensuring compliance with medicines legislation

on residential/nursing homes

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From 50,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Company pension Flexitime Free flu jabs Free parking Health & wellbeing programme On-site parking
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Sale M33 4BR