Job Description

Communicate complex and sensitive financial information to prescribers and practice managers about their performance against budgets, standards and targets. Provide complex & sensitive information directly to patients and/or their carers regarding their medication either verbally or in writing via direct text message / letter or via Patient Information Leaflets/posters. Provide complex clinical advice & guidance to prescribers to facilitate clinical discussions such as red/amber/green medications, drugs of low clinical value, antibiotic resistance and management of shared care protocols. Facilitate and lead meetings including where contentious information is to be discussed such as highlighting areas of prescribing concern to teams outside of own profession.



Support & contribute to the development of internal and externalcommunications, such as prescribing alerts by regular contact with the teams, stakeholders and Communications team. Regularly use advanced computer skills to utilise GP clinical systems togather, analyse and interpret patient related prescribing and clinical data.Requires the ability to identify errors and/or near misses as well as identifying opportunities for optimisation of medicines. Regular use of advanced analyses and/or comparison skills to review clinical and financial data in order to develop action plans for individual GP practices, PCNs and locality Undertake complex and detailed information analysis employing advanced expertise using Business Intelligence (BI) portals such as ePACT2, GM Tableau etcto generate prescribing information Review, develop, implement and audit practice repeat prescribing systems. Monitor standards and give support where needed e.g.



leading projects within GP surgeries to implement patient led ordering. Contribute to strategic planning for the next financial year for locality. Organise medication reviews within Care Homes/home care providers, and plan, organise & develop complex action plans to enable the improvement of medicines optimisation. Conduct level 1 and level 2 medication review at GP surgeries, patients own homes and care homes providing face to face specialist advice and information and contributing to programmes of care by liaising with other HCP's such as GPs and practice nurses.



Provide specialist advice to patients, carers, colleagues and other healthcare professionals including GPs on a range of specialist subjects including but not limited to; covert medication, best interest decision making, administration via PEG, contraception during treatment with antiepileptics, addiction and risks of long-term opioid use, palliative care medication etc.